Comments on: Canadian artists embrace stupidity, try to regulate the net http://www.freyburg.com/canadian-artists-embrace-stupidity-try-to-regulate-the-net.html Freyburg\'s take on media, politics and nerdery. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:04:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: jabberwocky http://www.freyburg.com/canadian-artists-embrace-stupidity-try-to-regulate-the-net.html#comment-112 jabberwocky Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:20:31 +0000 http://www.freyburg.com/canadian-artists-embrace-stupidity-try-to-regulate-the-net.html#comment-112 So what are they trying to do again? Does this mean that you would have to play something by some Canadian in your show to keep it from losing the CanCon Funding it doesn't have already? So what are they trying to do again? Does this mean that you would have to play something by some Canadian in your show to keep it from losing the CanCon Funding it doesn’t have already?

]]> By: Jordan http://www.freyburg.com/canadian-artists-embrace-stupidity-try-to-regulate-the-net.html#comment-111 Jordan Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:52:34 +0000 http://www.freyburg.com/canadian-artists-embrace-stupidity-try-to-regulate-the-net.html#comment-111 Yes, the whole issue is quite ridiculous. Don't like the balance of content on the web? Then get publishing yourself. There's nothing to stop you, and it should stay that way. To clarify quickly your point about Cancon Warren: whether someone has Cancon status is not a measure of success, but rather is based on the "MAPL" system (like the leaf, eh?) where at least two of the four of Music (composer), Artist, Producer, or Lyricist be considered Canadian. (A percentage of the financial side has to be of the Canuck variety as well I think). What this means is that much of Mr. Adams' and Ms. Dion's work is still considered Cancon, but anything they've done without a Canadian team doesn't qualify. A sidebar: I was at the NHL All Star game in 1994 when Bryan Adams botched the National Anthem. His publicist would have you believe that he was singing "the old version," rather than admitting the truth...that he had forgotten the words. I was also there during his rehearsals earlier that day, and Mr. Adams drew a blank then, too. Yes, the whole issue is quite ridiculous. Don’t like the balance of content on the web? Then get publishing yourself. There’s nothing to stop you, and it should stay that way.

To clarify quickly your point about Cancon Warren: whether someone has Cancon status is not a measure of success, but rather is based on the “MAPL” system (like the leaf, eh?) where at least two of the four of Music (composer), Artist, Producer, or Lyricist be considered Canadian. (A percentage of the financial side has to be of the Canuck variety as well I think).

What this means is that much of Mr. Adams’ and Ms. Dion’s work is still considered Cancon, but anything they’ve done without a Canadian team doesn’t qualify.

A sidebar: I was at the NHL All Star game in 1994 when Bryan Adams botched the National Anthem. His publicist would have you believe that he was singing “the old version,” rather than admitting the truth…that he had forgotten the words. I was also there during his rehearsals earlier that day, and Mr. Adams drew a blank then, too.

]]> By: Darren Barefoot http://www.freyburg.com/canadian-artists-embrace-stupidity-try-to-regulate-the-net.html#comment-107 Darren Barefoot Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:53:17 +0000 http://www.freyburg.com/canadian-artists-embrace-stupidity-try-to-regulate-the-net.html#comment-107 You know, I read that Gazette article twice, and I still don't really know what the artists want. What exactly do they mean that we're selling too much American content here in Canada? What content, in particular? I'm not sure if this is Hardacre's fault or the reporters, but it's bafflingly vague. You know, I read that Gazette article twice, and I still don’t really know what the artists want. What exactly do they mean that we’re selling too much American content here in Canada? What content, in particular? I’m not sure if this is Hardacre’s fault or the reporters, but it’s bafflingly vague.

]]>