Fun fact: The "Canadian content" requirement for broadcast was parodied by SCTV, who in order to fill the letter of the law aired a skit featuring two of the most stereotypically Canuck characters imaginable: Bob and Doug McKenzie.
Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada
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Re: Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada
#32This is a CBC article so keep in mind its bias in favour of the Liberals who pushed this bill through. For anyone interested in a more balanced view, Michael Geist is law professor, research chair, and overall internet policy nerd. I highly recommend his review of the bill: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/04/billc11end/ It's also interesting to put what the Trudeau Liberals are doing in perspective. This is just one…
The CBC is biased because they'll be a significant beneficiary of the bill -- they're a big source of Canadian content that others can license, so this will help them get paid. No need to go deep into conspiracy land for the bias.
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#33This is my biggest worry that as countries continue to add more and more laws the internet becomes more and more fragmented and soon instead of the internet we have the EUnet, the CAnet, the ChinaNet, the RussiaNet the AmericaNet, etc.
How local are these laws? Maybe we’ll get BlueNet and RedNet in the US (although that might be confusing for some Spanish speakers).
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
A similar law was passed in Venezuela in ~2005. It forced radio stations to play traditional Venezuelan music as a percent of all their airtime. From the only article I could find in english [0]: > The law can make listening to the radio an adventure in dizzying contrasts. One minute a disc jockey is playing American rap, and the next minute it’s flutes and fiddles from the Andean highlands. It pushed some local arti…
> It pushed some local artist to get creative and come out with some electronic traditional music, which frakly, sucked You gotta start somewhere. I lived through a similar transition in a different country, I hated the law at the time for the same reasons. However, it lit a fire under the local music industry which now supports more artistes than before. The music now sucks much less, and the local subgenres are uni…
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#35>The government has insisted that the legislation is not intended to regulate independent content creators. What does that means? If I upload videos on Youtube, then I'm probably in the clear. But if I make my own website with videos on it, am I still an "independent content creators" or am I now a streaming service in need of being regulated? How big I need to become before the law apply to me? Is this a new barrier…
The Senate put in an amendment to explicitly make that clear but the house of commons stripped it out citing "loopholes". So I wouldn't be surprised if any reasonably sized YouTube channel gets impacted despite being users of a social network.
Re: Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada
#36This is a CBC article so keep in mind its bias in favour of the Liberals who pushed this bill through. For anyone interested in a more balanced view, Michael Geist is law professor, research chair, and overall internet policy nerd. I highly recommend his review of the bill: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/04/billc11end/ It's also interesting to put what the Trudeau Liberals are doing in perspective. This is just one…
*coup de grâce ;)
Re: Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada
#37As a Canadian, I am of two minds about it. FM radio is required to broadcast Canadian produced or performed music at least for 35% of the time. There are not too many, in absolute numbers, songs that are both Canadian and popular which results in few songs being broadcast to death. At least that was the case when I used to listen to FM radio. On the other hand, that legislation certainly helped Canadian artists.
I think that's going to be the key here, how do you define "Canadian content" in terms of internet broadcast. Does this mean the government will be hand picking which content and producers count as Canadian? If standards are set, will they favor certain content producers with ties to the government. Right now the law is extremely vague and seems like it's tilted towards helping Canada's legacy media rather than small Canadian creators like Canadian youtube producers.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Canada already has this law, for as long as I can remember.
It sounds cruel and unusual to torment the population with Nickelback and Justin Bieber.
Are those considered Canadian content? Correct me if I am wrong, Bieber’s music is produced in the US.
Re: Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada
#39As a Canadian, I am of two minds about it. FM radio is required to broadcast Canadian produced or performed music at least for 35% of the time. There are not too many, in absolute numbers, songs that are both Canadian and popular which results in few songs being broadcast to death. At least that was the case when I used to listen to FM radio. On the other hand, that legislation certainly helped Canadian artists.
> FM radio is required to broadcast Canadian produced or performed music at least for 35% of the time
Let's see... popular music on FM radio in the US: The Weeknd, Drake, Justin Bieber... Shawn Mendes....
Yeah, 35% sounds about right.
Re: Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Canada already has this law, for as long as I can remember.
It sounds cruel and unusual to torment the population with Nickelback and Justin Bieber.
Or The Band, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Shania Twain, Nelly Furtado, Alanis Morisette, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot...