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News of the Week; October 28, 2020

COMMUNICATIONS Canadian News Media Lobby Group Calls for Creation of Government Digital Media Regulatory Agency (Michael Geist) Where is Canada’s News Media Lobby Promoting Its Link Licensing Plan for Facebook? On Facebook (Michael Geist) Senator wants Google, Facebook to pony up for local news Pai’s FCC squeezes in one more vote against net neutrality before […]

News of the Week; October 21, 2020

COMMUNICATIONS  How Can Linking to an Article be Immoral When the Media Source Itself Does the Posting? (Michael Geist) How Can Linking to an Article be Immoral When the Media Source Itself Does the Posting, Part 2: A Day in the Life of the Toronto Star on Facebook (Michael Geist) Forget Link Licensing and Cross-Subsidies: […]

News of the Week; October 14, 2020

COMMUNICATIONS The Guilbeault Internet Plan: Leave it to the CRTC and Copyright Board of Canada to Get Money from Web Giants (Michael Geist) AT&T plans thousands of layoffs at HBO, Warner Bros., rest of WarnerMedia AT&T Is Taking An Absolute Bath On Its DirecTV Merger With 42,000 Layoffs Since 2017, AT&T Plans Thousands More Layoffs […]

News of the Week; October 7, 2020

COMMUNICATIONS What Happened to Canada’s Innovation Agenda?: How Innovation Policy Has Been Sidelined By Cultural Policies and Misplaced Provincial Prioritization of Patents (Michael Geist) Guide to Doing Business in Canada: CASL Mississippi Says AT&T Took $283 Million For A Network It Never Fully Deployed AT&T kills DSL, leaves tens of millions of homes without fiber […]

News of the Week; September 30, 2020

COMMUNICATIONS An Anti-Digital Agenda: Forget the Digital Policy Reboot, the Government Just Hit Delete Instead (Michael Geist) “Get Money from Web Giants” Grows: Canadian Heritage Minister Guilbeault Says Government Working on a New Data Tax (Michael Geist) Guilbeault’s Bogus Billion Dollar Claim: What the Data Actually Says About Canadian Film and TV Production (Michael Geist) […]