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29 Jun 2023, 10:20 am
But it is the government and Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez that must face the blame for having badly blundered this file. [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 8:08 am
This was entirely foreseeable, yet Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez never seemed to take the risks seriously. [read post]
28 Jun 2023, 3:30 am
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has amply demonstrated that there is no Plan B, offering up the prospect of further dependence on government through more public spending to mitigate the harms from his massive miscalculations. [read post]
27 Jun 2023, 7:48 am
These were risks Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez chose to ignore with a bill that could cause enormous harm to the media sector and which may lead to a serious case of buyer’s remorse for the media sector. [read post]
23 Jun 2023, 4:48 am
Meta confirmed that it would block news sharing from its Facebook and Instagram platforms in Canada, while Google met with Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez to see whether a compromise could be reach to avoid a similar outcome. [read post]
20 Jun 2023, 5:15 am
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez recently confirmed that Bill C-18 in its current form only applies to two companies: Google and Meta. [read post]
15 Jun 2023, 5:11 am
While Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez claimed it would lead to increased choice (a claim he re-iterated this week in Banff), critics of the bill argued that the opposite was true, namely that the bill would likely lead to fewer services entering the Canadian market or streamers reducing content choices. [read post]
14 Jun 2023, 5:00 am
While Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez misleadingly insisted that user content was not covered by the bill, it took a policy direction to the CRTC (which is still in draft form) after the bill was passed to make that a reality. [read post]
13 Jun 2023, 5:00 am
That concern was amplified yesterday as the Canadian Media Fund, which receives nearly $200 million annually from the federal government, literally gave a trophy to Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez for passing Bill C-11 and CRTC Chair Vicky Eatrides delivered remarks at the Banff World Media Festival in which consumers and the broader public were nowhere to be found. [read post]
12 Jun 2023, 5:00 am
This week’s Law Bytes podcast takes listeners into the committee room for clips from media big and small, independent experts, Google and Meta, and Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 5:00 am
The post Tough Talk, Empty Answers: How Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is Propelling Canada’s News Sector Toward the Bill C-18 Cliff appeared first on Michael Geist. [read post]
2 Jun 2023, 5:05 am
The government now says it won’t give in to “threats” but the reality is that Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez more accurately described it last year as a “business decision” when he appeared before the Heritage committee. [read post]
30 May 2023, 6:48 am
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez on behalf of the government has long maintained that a policy direction is an essential component of Bill C-11. [read post]
26 May 2023, 11:34 am
Pablo Rodriguez has his hands full with his incredibly misguided legislation in the form of Bills C-11 (now passed) and C-18 (the “link tax” bill), that doesn’t mean that he or his enabling officials have forgotten about copyright and the shrill and misinformed voices from Quebec (of which he is Trudeau’s “Lieutenant”) and Bay Street. [read post]
18 May 2023, 5:11 am
For months, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez assured Canadians and parliamentarians that a forthcoming policy direction would provide guidance on legislation that left much to be decided. [read post]
9 May 2023, 6:46 am
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has been asked about the prospect of blocked news sharing for months, but has been unable to provide a cogent response, relying instead on canned talking points about his disappointment with Meta turning to the “Australian playbook”. [read post]
6 May 2023, 10:34 am
Bill C-11’s regulation of user content raises troubling possibilities with Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez consistently failing to provide a credible explanation for rejecting safeguards for user content, leaving many to believe that regulatory power (including the possibility of mandating warning labels on some content) is the goal. [read post]
4 May 2023, 5:14 am
While internal government documents admitted that claims regarding the contributions from Internet streaming services understated the actual contributions by failing to account for “unofficial Cancon”, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez was happy to feed the narrative that the bill was a critical support for an industry in jeopardy. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 5:00 am
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez will undoubtedly reappear with the bill’s passage and his department will line up supportive comments from lobby groups to offer praise to the government for passing Bill C-11. [read post]
20 Apr 2023, 7:29 am
With Bill C-11 in the final stretch – Senate approval could come this week – the government finally provided a more detailed explanation for rejecting the Senate’s user content regulation fix. [read post]
