The Trudeau authorities’s just lately handed On-line Streaming Act is shifting into its subsequent part of regulation by requiring podcasters to register with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Fee (CRTC).
The federal government claims the regulation will “guarantee on-line streaming providers make significant contributions to Canadian and Indigenous content material.”
However critics fear the transfer is simply the Liberal authorities’s newest try to manage what Canadians are in a position to see and listen to on-line.
“The CRTC now desires to manage podcasts,” mentioned the Toronto Solar’s Brian Lilley. “Right here is my easy message to them. Go to hell.”
CRTC’s announcement states that podcasters assembly sure standards “want to offer details about their actions in Canada.”
On-line streaming providers working in Canada that provide audio or video content material that generate $10 million or extra in annual revenues should full a registration kind by November 28.
It’s pitched as a one-time requirement gathering primary data.
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