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Revenue at risk through C-32: The CCA stands by its estimate of $126M a year

CCA Bul­letin 9/11 March 14, 2011   Just the facts On Feb­ru­ary 7, 2011, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) pub­lished a bul­letin pre­sent­ing the rev­enue received by cre­ators and other rights hold­ers which are at risk if Bill C-32 is adopted with­out amendments. In his March 3rd blog titled “The CCA’s $126 Mil­lion Wheel of For­tune: Guess­ing at Bill C-32’s Costs”, Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa Pro­fes­sor Michael Geist raised seri­ous ques­tions about the CCA’s cred­i­bil­ity...

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National Digital Strategy: the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage makes a series of recommendations

CCA Bul­letin 8/11 March 1, 2011   Just the Facts Almost a year after it began its study of dig­i­tal media, the Stand­ing Com­mit­tee on Cana­dian Her­itage has pub­lished its report Emerg­ing and Dig­i­tal Media: Oppor­tu­ni­ties and Chal­lenges. The con­text for the study relates to two ear­lier reports pub­lished by the com­mit­tee: one on the impact of emerg­ing and dig­i­tal media on Cana­dian pub­lic broad­cast­ing (CBC/Radio-Canada: Defin­ing Dis­tinc­tive­ness in the Chang­ing...

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The CCA weighs in on private television group-based licence renewals

CCA Bul­letin 7/11 Feb­ru­ary 25, 2011   Just the Facts The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) recently sub­mit­ted a brief to the Cana­dian Radio-Television and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion (CRTC) regard­ing group-based licence renewals for English-language television. Why does this issue matter? Tele­vi­sion pro­gram­ming is the most con­sumed cul­tural prod­uct. TV is the for­mat through which the gov­ern­ment invests the most tax­pay­ers’ dol­lars, both directly and...

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What exactly is the financial impact of C-32 on artists and other rights holders?

CCA Bul­letin 6/11 Feb­ru­ary 7, 2011   Just the facts Sev­eral seem­ingly con­tra­dic­tory num­bers have been quoted over the course of the debate on the finan­cial impacts of Bill C-32 on artists and other copy­right holders. In order to help facil­i­tate debate on this most impor­tant issue, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA), with the coop­er­a­tion of its mem­bers and other stake­hold­ers, has pre­pared a list of rev­enue sources for artists and rights hold­ers which are at risk unless...

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The cultural sector mobilizes around copyright reform

CCA Bul­letin 5/11 Feb­ru­ary 3, 2011   Just the Facts Ear­lier today, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) par­tic­i­pated in a press con­fer­ence held on Par­lia­ment Hill in Ottawa to make pub­lic Canada’s Cul­tural Indus­tries’ joint state­ment on Bill C-32, the Copy­right Mod­ern­iza­tion Act. The state­ment is signed by 88 national and provin­cial arts ser­vice orga­ni­za­tions from all arts and cul­ture dis­ci­plines. Bill C-32 is cur­rently the object of study by a spe­cial...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: Members of Parliament return to the Hill

CCA Bul­letin 4/11 Jan­u­ary 31, 2011   With Jan­u­ary already behind us, politi­cians are back in Ottawa today to resume their leg­isla­tive busi­ness. All this in the midst of increas­ing spec­u­la­tion that the life of this Par­lia­ment may come to an end as soon as the Min­is­ter of Finance stands up in the House of Com­mons to deliver the bud­get speech. Spec­u­la­tion will likely con­tinue for the next eight to 10 weeks. As it hap­pens, the CCA will be very active around the Hill this week with a ...

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Nothing like a CRTC submission to start the year off right!

CCA Bul­letin 3/11 Jan­u­ary 24, 2011   Just the facts On Feb­ru­ary 1, the CRTC will begin hear­ings on the appli­ca­tion by Bell Canada Enter­prises Inc. (BCE) to acquire full con­trol of CTV­globe­me­dia Inc. (CTVgm) and its licensed broad­cast­ing sub­sidiaries. The Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has filed a short brief in which it presents its posi­tion on the two fun­da­men­tal issues raised by BCE’s appli­ca­tion, namely: the nec­es­sary pub­lic ben­e­fits pack­age to be...

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The US government turns up the heat on cultural diplomacy: Can we hope that Ottawa will do the same?

CCA Bul­letin 2/11 Jan­u­ary 17, 2011     Just the facts For the past four years, the Cana­dian Con­fer­ence of the Arts (CCA) has deplored the fact that the fed­eral gov­ern­ment no longer has a coor­di­nated strat­egy for the pro­mo­tion of Cana­dian artists and cul­tural works to national and inter­na­tional audi­ences and mar­kets. Beyond the purely eco­nomic aspects, we have also expressed con­cerns about the fact that Ottawa has all but aban­doned cul­tural diplo­macy as part of its for­eign...

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FROM THE DESK of Alain Pineau: A nice way to start the year!

CCA Bul­letin 1/11 Jan­u­ary 11, 2011     I hope the hol­i­day break was great for all of you! It sure was for the CCA sec­re­tariat and frankly, it’s a good thing because we have a very busy cal­en­dar ahead of us! On the pol­icy front, Bill C-32 and copy­right are major pri­or­i­ties, but there are also the upcom­ing CRTC hear­ings regard­ing the pur­chase of CTV­globe­me­dia by BCE. We are in the final stages of prepa­ra­tion for our third Think­ing Cul­ture forum (on copy­right on Jan­u­ary 25)....

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Of this and that and other things: A pre-holiday wrap up (Part 2)

CCA Bul­letin 32/10 Decem­ber 20, 2010       This will most likely be our last bul­letin of the year, but before we wish you all the best for the New Year, we must fin­ish our year-end wrap-up of a num­ber of impor­tant issues: An update on the 2010-11 fed­eral budget An update on the Canada/European Union negotiations The lat­est on the long-form census Cul­ture Days 2010 revisited Fed­eral Bud­get 2010-11: the CBC does not fare as well as ini­tially thought! The gov­ern­ment released the sec­ond set of...

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