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Class 4 Slides & Video – “The Many Meanings of Broadcasting”

Slides and video below. Also below you will find  the video we watched in class of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Mary Meeker delivering her internet trends report at the 2017 Code Conference. Below that is her 2018 report presentation. Finally, the world changing technology ideas brainstormed were (in particular order other than receipt): […]

EU Article 13 Copyright Law/Youtube.

In September 2017 the European Parliament voted on an amended version of the EU copyright law. Overall, the directive intended to find a balance between rights holders (record companies or publishers) and platforms such as YouTube. Article 13 of this EU’s new Directive on Copyright is very controversial. The fact that platforms will be liable […]

Question of the Week (Class 4): Should there be “should’s” in S. 3 of the Broadcasting Act?

As we started discussing last week, S.3 of the Broadcasting Act (S.C. 1991, c. 11) is bit different from most other statutory provisions you might have come across. It is rather full of the word “should”. This is in stark contrast to most statutory drafting norms and, interestingly for our purposes, quite different in style if not […]

Netflix’s Rising Popularity

This week Netflix was nominated for 15 Oscars – demonstrating that it is a serious competitor to the traditional cinema industry. It comes in the same week that they announced that they were increasing prices for their subscribers. Furthermore, Netflix has recently claimed that their non-US subscribers have risen dramatically over the past month. However […]

News of the Week; January 23, 2019

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY  The Canadian Wireless Story: Comparative Data Shows World’s Highest Carrier Revenues Per SIM Sunlight on the Submissions: Why the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel Should Reverse Its Secretive Approach (Michael Geist) Woman sues T-Mobile after employees allegedly snoop on racy private video Verizon blames school text provider in dispute […]

Results of today’s “One Word Poll” on your policy priority for the communications system

Results Freedom = 4 Privacy = 4 Security = 3 Access = 2 Open = 2 Balance = 1 Consumer Protections = 1 Creativity = 1 Fact-based = 1 Innovation = 1 Net-neutrality = 1 Transparency = 1 Thanks to everyone who played… Jon

Class 3 Slides & Video – “The Roles of Communications & Content in Defining Justice, Sovereignty & Culture” 

Video & slides below. Also below you will find the video  we didn’t get to watch “Lessons from fashion’s free culture” which addresses question of  the conditions required for optimal creative eco-systems. Since so much of what broadcasting, telecommunications, and the internet carry and facilitate is “creative”, any deeper analysis of the roles of regulation […]

Question of the Week (Class 3): Should Canada ban Huawei from our 5G Networks?

Thanks to Mishaal for doing the heavy lifting in the post just below. Will add a couple of more articles for you to consider (click on the screen-captures). So our Question of the Week is simply: Jon

With Canadian-Chinese relations in question, should Canada ban Huawei from our 5G Networks?

Amidst all the turmoil of the arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, Canada must decide what they are to do with Huawei, who Crown lawyers describe as the world’s largest telecommunications company. The firm employs 180,000 people in more than 170 countries and regions worldwide, including more than 700 people in Canada, which […]

How to Post (course members only)

Once you have signed in through your CML account, posting to the website is pretty simple. All you have to do is add “post” (without quotes) to the end of the URL. Once you do so and press enter you will be taken to a page where you can post. So you will go from […]