Win for ISPs in Canada Supreme Court
14 February 2012
Eileen McDermott, New York
A group of copyright owners have pledged to continue to fight to make ISPs contribute to the Canadian broadcasting system despite a Supreme Court ruling last week that said they shouldn’t have to
The Supreme Court issued a judgment that upheld the Federal Court of Appeal’s position that internet service providers are not subject to the Broadcasting Act when they provide access to broadcasting over the internet on the grounds that they do not exercise control over content. The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) originally asked the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission to tax ISPs under the Broadcasting Act in 2008, when the Commission revisited whether to regulate programmes broadcast over the internet. The Commission chose...
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