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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 :...

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Canadian content regulations

Canadian 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...

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Alberta: business and culture, two preoccupations of the Redford conservative government

Alberta: 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...

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The Impact of Digital Media on the Performing Arts

The Impact of Digital Media on the Performing Arts

A new report enti­tled Beyond the Cur­tain: How Dig­i­tal Media is Reshap­ing The­atre was recently released by Ballinran Enter­tain­ment Ltd. in part­ner­ship with Dig­i­tal Wiz­ards Inc., Cana­dian Actors Equity Asso­ci­a­tion, and Strat­ford Shake­speare Fes­ti­val.  It con­tains a study of the chal­lenges fac­ing the per­form­ing arts in the sector’s attempt to embrace and achieve the right bal­ance with new media and dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies. The research involved inter­views with lead­ing the­atre...

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Europe and gender equality

Dur­ing a ple­nary ses­sion held in Brus­sels on Octo­ber 27, 2011, the Euro­pean sec­toral social dia­logue com­mit­tee for the audio-visual field for­mally adopted a frame­work of action on gen­der equal­ity, rep­re­sent­ing a suc­cess­ful out­come to two years of nego­ti­a­tion between social partners. The agree­ment aims to improve the sit­u­a­tion in the sec­tor in the fol­low­ing areas: - Gen­der rep­re­sen­ta­tion; – Gen­der role at work; – Wage equal­ity; – Decision-making equal­ity;...

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Municipal Cultural Investment

Mon­tréal and Van­cou­ver Lead the Way in Cul­ture Funding On Jan­u­ary 10th, Hill Strate­gies Research released a study called Munic­i­pal Cul­tural Invest­ment in Five Large Cana­dian Cities. The study com­pares cities with the largest num­ber of cul­tural work­ers and artists in Canada – Van­cou­ver, Cal­gary, Toronto, Ottawa and Mon­tréal. This report writ­ten in part­ner­ship with the cul­tural staff of the five cities cov­ered, the Cre­ative City Net­work and the Cana­dian Urban Libraries Coun­cil aims to...

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Quebec gets a move on!

In Novem­ber 2011, we received two new reports exam­in­ing the impact of dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies on Que­bec. The first from SODEC, Porte grande ouverte sur le numérique, reports on a con­sul­ta­tion under­taken in 2010. The sec­ond report comes from the Que­bec Coun­cil of Arts and Let­ters (Con­seil des arts et des let­tres du Québec or CALQ) and a sum­mary is pro­vided below. SODEC: Doors Wide Open on Digital This report details the impact of the dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies on the cul­tural indus­tries in Que­bec:...

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Agenda 21

Min­is­ter Chris­tine St-Pierre announced on Decem­ber 5th that Que­bec would be the first province to adopt its own Agenda 21 on Cul­ture. Agenda 21 allows us to carve a place for cul­ture in all polit­i­cal actions of the gov­ern­ment; Que­bec is the first province in the world to inte­grate this idea into their sus­tain­able devel­op­ment plans. The move is a response to the Con­ven­tion on the pro­tec­tion and pro­mo­tion of diver­sity of cul­tural expres­sion from UNESCO that pushes states to inte­grate...

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Digital New Brunswick

A new fund­ing appli­ca­tion process was cre­ated in New Brunswick for the film indus­try after con­sul­ta­tions with the tele­vi­sion, new media and film sec­tors in November. This may help to rec­tify some of the loss after the province can­celled a tax credit pro­gram for audio­vi­sual pro­duc­tions last spring. For films this could mean between 25–30% of the pro­duc­tion expen­di­tures spent in the province could be cov­ered. Accepted projects will also receive half of the funds imme­di­ately after being awarded...

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Creative Europe

Creative Europe

Europe : A 1.8 bil­lion Euros invest­ment in cul­ture to stim­u­late the economy On Novem­ber 23, the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion unveiled a plan to boost cul­tural and cre­ative sec­tors. With a pro­posed bud­get of €1.8 bil­lion for the period 2014–2020, it would be a much-needed boost for the cul­tural and cre­ative indus­tries, which are a major source of jobs and growth in Europe. The new pro­gram would allo­cate more than €900 mil­lion in sup­port of the cin­ema and audio­vi­sual sec­tor (area cov­ered by...

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