WIPO Treaty on performances in the audiovisual sector">WIPO Treaty on performances in the audiovisual sector
Actors and actresses are now demanding that their rights be enshrined in a Treaty. After the disappointment of the failed Diplomatic Summit of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2000, Beijing will be the host of the next Summit in June, which will most probably adopt the new Treaty. Actors from around the world are saying : “It’s Time”. http://www.fia-actors.com/en/wipo.html
read moreCanadian content regulations
The loss of Pierre Juneau, father of Canadian content regulations served as the pretext for a good debate on the regulations in the National Post last month. Marni Soupcoff, Lorne Gunter and Matt Gurney of the National Post agreed in large part that government generally should not get involved in the arts. They then argue that the absence of quotas in the broadcast and music industries in the U.S. and the United Kingdom is somewhat healthy. They also claim that “CanCon requirements look most ridiculous when you consider how many people now...
read moreAlberta: business and culture, two preoccupations of the Redford conservative government
by Tom McFall, Executive Director of the Alberta Craft Council and CCA Board member The weekend of February 26 may prove to be a turning point for Alberta’s culture sector. That weekend Alberta’s new Premier Alison Redford and Culture and Community Services Minister Heather Klimchuk hosted almost 400 of Alberta’s culture and business leaders at Red Deer College for an important discussion about the future of culture in Alberta. Culture Forum 2012 gathered a cross-section of culture workers, community leaders,...
read moreAlternative Federal Budget
The CCA participated with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives to publish the Alternative Federal Budget. The AFB is a collaborative project between organizations from all different sectors to come up with a budget that reflects the values of most Canadians. Read the section on Culture and the Arts here.
read moreMarch 2012: Greg Hollingshead
Our featured member this month is Greg Hollingshead, writer professor Emeritus and president of the Writers Union of Canada (TWUC). Greg has published more than five dozen stories and essays in magazines and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. His book The Roaring Girl (Somerville House) won the 1995 Governor General's Award for Fiction.
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