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Only cultural content broadcasting activities of social media companies would be covered by the Bill. Some social media are important platforms for accessing culture. YouTube is the largest online music broadcaster in the country. To legislate Spotify or QUB Music, but not YouTube, for example, would be inconsistent and unfair.
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- Was Section 4.1 Included in Bill C-10 in The First place?
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The Government of Canada recognizes that social media services have clearly become an important tool for self-expression for Canadians. As you are all aware, section 2.1 clearly excludes users from being considered broadcasters in respect of the programs they post to a social media service. Section 4.1 clarified that programs that are uploaded to a...
The Government, after hearing from industry stakeholders, felt that the calibration of section 4.1 wasn’t right. According to a recent survey from the Media Technology Monitor, nearly two-thirds of Canadians use YouTube as their primary music streaming service; many Canadians turn to social media services for programming that informs, enlightens, a...
Bill C-10 does not define the term “social media service”. That’s because this is a commonly used term and it has a well understood meaning. Many dictionaries include a definition of social media. For example, the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines social media as: forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microb...
The proposed changes are specifically intended to provide the CRTC with the powers to properly administer the Broadcasting Act. These information gathering provisions would allow the CRTC to obtain relevant financial information from an online undertaking that provides a social media service as well as programming information. But to safeguard priv...
Bill C-10 defines “affiliate” in terms of corporate control. Examples include a corporate parent or subsidiary of a social media service. In speaking about the Bill in a non-technical manner we often refer to “unaffiliated users” as a short-hand that means everyone but for (i) affiliates in the defined sense, (ii) the service itself and (iii) agent...
The Online Streaming Act would not apply to individual users of social media services. Everyday use of social media by Canadians, digital-first creators and influencers would not be regulated by the Online Streaming Act. The current Act has been crucial in supporting the development of Canadian cultural expression and Canada’s creative ...
Jun 4, 2024 · Subsection 2(2.1) and section 4.1 of the Broadcasting Act describe how the Act applies to social media services and users who upload programs on these services. Under the Broadcasting Act, the Commission cannot impose regulatory obligations on users of social media services who upload their programs to those services. However, the Commission ...
Marginal note: Non-application — programs on social media service. 4.1 (1) This Act does not apply in respect of a program that is uploaded to an online undertaking that provides a social media service by a user of the service for transmission over the Internet and reception by other users of the service.
(2.1) A person who uses a social media service to upload programs for transmission over the Internet and reception by other users of the service — and who is not the provider of the service or the provider’s affiliate, or the agent or mandatary of either of them — does not, by the fact of that use, carry on a broadcasting undertaking for the purposes of this Act.
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Oct 14, 2024 · (2.1) A person who uses a social media service to upload programs for transmission over the Internet and reception by other users of the service — and who is not the provider of the service or the provider’s affiliate, or the agent or mandatary of either of them — does not, by the fact of that use, carry on a broadcasting undertaking for the purposes of this Act.
