Investment in Canadian Culture
Canadian Conference of the Arts 2002 In 2001, the federal government announced a major investment in Canadian culture: more than $500 million of new money over the next three years was promised to “ensure the growth and development of Canadian culture”. This new funding was warmly welcomed by the Canadian arts and cultural community, which considered it long overdue after the many years of federal government cutbacks to the sector. This paper is a process evaluation of how the new federal government programs were...
read moreA Call to Action: A Year 2000 Research Report and Discussion Paper on the Status of the Artist Policy and Legislation in Canada
Cultural Enterprises International November 2000 The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) commissioned consultants, Cultural Enterprises International, to prepare a report on the past and present Status of the Artist initiatives across the country and to suggest issues and vehicles for consideration and action by the CCA. The unique pattern of employment of artists as self-employed workers and their consequent lack of benefits which other workers have has been discussed in Canada for over 30 years. After various...
read moreCopyright Issues in Trade Agreements
Lesley Ellen Harris October 1997 Over the past several years, we have seen the inclusion of provisions relating to copyright in trade agreements, a trend that seems to be increasing. For Canada, this was first seen as a result of the signing of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement in January 1989. The Canadian Copyright Act was then amended to require cable and satellite companies to pay for the retransmission of works included in distant broadcast signals. On January 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Implementation Act came...
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