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Apr 27, 2023 · The bill makes changes to Canada's Broadcasting Act. The legislation requires streaming services, such as Netflix and Spotify, to pay to support Canadian media content like music and TV shows.
Oct 30, 2023 · Let’s take a close look at how laws are made in Canada. The Canadian Parliament and Legislature. Laws are made in a legislature or parliament. As a federation, meaning a union of provinces and territories with a central government, Canada has a parliament and a legislature. The federal parliament is in Ottawa and makes laws for the entire ...
Oct 7, 2023 · The Online Streaming Act, formerly known in Parliament as Bill C-11, is the Liberal government's second attempt to bring major online streaming services into Canada's broadcasting system, and ...
- Q1–Why Do We Need to Amend The Broadcasting Act?
- Q2–How Is Bill C-11 Different Than The Previous Bill C-10?
- Q3–How Does The Online Streaming Act Support Canadian Creators?
- Q5–What New Tools Would The CRTC Have to Regulate Online Broadcasters?
- Q6–Would Bill C-11 Open The Door to Regulating All Content on The Internet?
- Q7–Is This Bill About Censoring Canadians?
- Q8–Are Digital First Creators and Their Content Subject to Regulation?
- Q9–How Will “Mandatory Carriage” Work Under Bill C-11?
- Q11–What Does Discoverability Mean in The Context of Bill C-11?
The Broadcasting Acthas not kept pace with technological change. It needs to be updated to reflect Canada’s diverse society and the reality of online broadcasting. The last major reform of the Broadcasting Actwas in 1991; since then, most Canadians have grown accustomed to accessing their music, television, and movies over the Internet. The bill ac...
The Online Streaming Actbuilds upon the previous work of Parliamentarians, retaining the amendments that were made to the bill during the last Parliament. However, in the last Parliament, there was vigorous debate about the role of social media services in supporting Canadian creators and culture. An important change to the bill was made to focus o...
Online broadcasting services like Crave, Netflix, Tou.TV and music streaming services like Spotify and YouTube have dramatically changed how we watch television and movies and listen to music. In addition to this new reality, Canada’s broadcasting sector is facing long-term structural challenges. Without intervention, current trends in the market a...
One of the major changes is a move away from issuing broadcasting licences as the primary regulatory tool, where broadcasters first need to obtain permission from the CRTC to operate in Canada. The new condition of service model would allow the CRTC to seek contributions from broadcasters and to impose other conditions, including conditions related...
No. The focus of the Online Streaming Actis on the streaming services (e.g., Netflix, Crave, Spotify) that Canadians use every day to access their favourite music, television or films. Certain social media platforms (e.g., YouTube) may also be required to support and promote Canadian stories and music. This would apply where these social media serv...
No. The Online Streaming Actis about ensuring that Canadian music and stories are given a fair chance of being discovered. The bill is about further promoting Canadian cultural expression in the digital environment, not inhibiting it. This law would not control what Canadians can or cannot see online. Canadians will always be able to choose what to...
Digital first creators have indicated that they do not wish to be subject to the Broadcasting Act. The Online Streaming Actseeks to respect their wishes. Digital first creators, like all individuals uploading content to a social media service, are not covered by the bill. In other words, individual users, influencers and digital first creators will...
The Broadcasting Actcurrently provides the CRTC with the authority to make orders respecting the carriage of certain programming services and to set the terms and conditions associated with that carriage. For example, the CRTC may order a broadcasting distributor to carry certain programming services or “channels” and require the distributor to pay...
Today, more programs than ever, from across the world, are available to watch online. Similarly, there are more Canadian programs being made now than ever before. Bill C-11 will authorize the CRTC to make orders relating to the discoverability and showcasing of Canadian programs to ensure that Canadian programs are not lost in the vastness of progr...
May 1, 2023 · Several provisions in the Act are based on recommendations originally made by the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel (the “Panel”), which reviewed Canada’s broadcasting laws and published 97 recommendations in its final report released in January 2020. 3 The Panel rejected a so-called “Netflix tax” (i.e., charging consumers an extra levy on subscriptions to ...
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Mar 3, 2023 · A bill known as the Online Streaming Act that will update Canada’s laws around broadcasting for the first time in the internet age is one step away from becoming law and impacting popular ...
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Apr 27, 2023 · Section 4 of the Online Streaming Act specifically carves out an exception for "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," unless the program is "uploaded to the social media service by the ...
