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Bill C-11
A bill that will refresh Canada’s regulations around communicating without precedent for modern times is one stage away from becoming regulation and influencing well known streaming stages.
Digital streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+, and Spotify would be required to contribute to the creation and promotion of Canadian content under Bill C-11, which is also known as the Online Streaming Act. With 26 amendments, the bill passed the Senate’s third reading last month. It will depend on the Place of House to choose which of those changes to keep prior to passing the bill into regulation.
The Writers Guild of Canada and the Canadian Media Producers Association, two creative unions in Canada, generally back the bill. However, they are concerned that the bill’s language could lead to a two-tiered system in which Canadian broadcasters would be held to higher standards than foreign streamers. In the meantime, Canadian content creators on YouTube and TikTok are concerned about the bill’s effect on them.
Here’s how it will work with Bill C-11 so close to completion.
What is Bill C-11’s purpose?
The Broadcasting Act of 1968 established a number of objectives for Canada’s broadcasting system, including that it should utilize Canadian talent and strengthen the country’s cultural fabric.
The country has regulations that specify what constitutes Canadian programming and how much of it Canadian television and radio broadcasters must participate in order to accomplish this. They should likewise contribute monetarily to the turn of events and advancement of Canadian substance.
With alterations, the Senate approved Bill C-11. What’s the significance here for Canadian makers?
Online broadcasters like Netflix, Disney+, and Spotify, which are earning money in Canada without being required to reinvest in Canadian content, are currently exempt from these regulations, despite concerns among some Canadians that new legislation could alter the way they stream media.
The goal of Bill C-11 is to extend the nation’s current broadcasting policy to the digital realm and provide the country’s broadcasting regulator with additional authority.
Who defines content in Canada?
Bill C-11 does not specify the amount of Canadian content a foreign streaming service must have or define what constitutes Canadian content on the internet.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), an independent body that oversees and regulates Canada’s broadcasting system, would be responsible for carrying out that responsibility.
The Broadcasting Act’s objectives are to be met through regulations that are developed and enforced by the CRTC. These objectives have been revised and expanded upon by Bill C-11, which grants the CRTC new powers to achieve them.
For instance the CRTC characterizes Canadian substance for various sorts of media. There are various guidelines for TV creations than there are for melodies.
What changes is C-11 trying to make?
Before the internet and streaming changed much of our entertainment consumption, the Broadcasting Act was last updated in 1991.
The CRTC is brought into the age of the internet by Bill C-11, which grants the regulator the authority to impose conditions on how online streamers support Canadian content and contribute to production funds, as well as to ensure that Canadian movies and programs appear in search results.
Additionally, it contains a provision requiring foreign online streamers to utilize Canadian creative talent. The CRTC would be in charge of defining that precisely.
According to Alex Levine, president of the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC), the availability of foreign streaming platforms in Canada resulted in less investment in the production of Canadian programming and less money for traditional broadcasters.
He stated, “We have 25% of the actual work for Canadian screenwriters in terms of the number of episodes created that we had in 2014.”
Levine asserts that the issues are even more acute for writers than for other Canadians employed in film and television production.
“We only work on content from Canada. When, for example, Netflix or HBO decides to shoot a show here, we don’t work.”
Without the bill, Levine says market influences mean Canadians “will see a world reflected back to them not entirely settled by studio leaders in Los Angeles and not by Canadian specialists.”
How does it affect creators working online?
There has been a lot of discussion about how user-generated content from creators on sites like TikTok and YouTube might be affected by Bill C-11.
The bill would grant the CRTC authority to establish discoverability regulations to guarantee that Canadian content can be viewed online by Canadians.
Since many user-generated sites reward creators based on positive engagement, some creators are concerned that if those rules apply to social media sites, their videos might be shown to people who wouldn’t be interested in them. This, they argue, could hinder their success.
“Well, am I going to be able to realize my dream or my vision for my content?” I ask myself as I look at it. Nathan Kennedy, a TikToker from Hamilton who visits Ottawa every year to voice concerns about the bill and has more than 500,000 followers on the platform, says.
Modifications to user-generated content language were the focus of some Senate amendments.
Kennedy stated, “Some of our worries were realized and passed with the Senate.” Saying that we’re not just making this up was, in a sense, validating.
When a senate committee was studying the bill in November, then-CRTC Chair Ian Scott stated that the regulator would not be able to manipulate algorithms to achieve its objectives and that it would not be interested in doing so anyway.
He stated, “The CRTC’s objective is to ensure that Canadians are made aware of and able to locate Canadian content.”
“The CRTC has no intention of regulating individual TikTokers, YouTubers, or other digital content creators,” “I wish to assure you and Canadians more generally.”
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