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Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

TorrentFreak

.” According to some, this almost utopian model with ‘free’ and ‘sharing’ underpinning everything, had no chance of survival. Right now, a company is claiming that Blender’s free content is actually their content and as a result, must be immediately removed from the internet.

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Why the Online News Act is a Bad Solution to a Real Problem, Part Six: CBC Eligibility Harms News Competition and Its Public Interest Mandate

Michael Geist

At a minimum, there must be some level of free content, both news and entertainment, on CBC/Radio-Canada’s digital platforms. Nowhere will the role of a well-resourced public media provider be more important than in the area of news and information content.