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During the 2015 election, Peter Mansbridge convinced the Canadian media consortium to ban CPC ads that included news footage, like this one. #cdnpoli Trudeau was always a clown, but the MSM elite wanted to keep you from learning that. Now you know.
2/5 Just prior to the 2015 election, Peter Mansbridge was upset by this @CPC_HQ political ad. So he emailed Jennifer McGuire, the CBC's editor-in-chief, demanding something be done to stop it. #cdnpoli
3/5 So the CBC editor-in-chief contacted the heads of Bell Media, Shaw Media and Rogers to organize a boycott of the political ad, and others like it. #cdnpoli You can read their emails here: https://www.scribd.com/document/242543668/CBC-Political-Ads-ATIP
4/5 Even though CBC lawyers insisted news footage in political ads is allowed under statutory 'fair dealing' exemptions in the Copyright Act, the media consortium issued their decree: They would refuse to air political ads which they did not explicitly approve. #cdnpoli
5/5 But the CBC-led media consortium was just plain wrong. Their decree was contrary to the Copyright Act, and their anti-competitive collusion was a probable violation of the Competition Act. Copyright experts like @mgeist noticed, and were
appalled. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/06/cbc-seeks-takedown-of-conservative-ad-claims-no-one-can-re-use-its-news-clips-without-permission/
appalled. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/06/cbc-seeks-takedown-of-conservative-ad-claims-no-one-can-re-use-its-news-clips-without-permission/
