Yes, CC licenses are well suited to public broadcasting. I also think that within Canada, CBC should be ad-free, like the BBC is within Britain. Some background on these ideas: https://current.org/2015/05/why-more-public-media-content-should-be-licensed-under-creative-commons/ … http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/02/the-shattered-mirror-part-two-the-underwhelming-recommendation-for-open-licensing-at-the-cbc/ … http://www.bbc.co.uk/corporate2/insidethebbc/howwework/policiesandguidelines/advertising.html …
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Replying to @JesseBrown @amandacconn
Unless I'm misreading, these examples are all specifically about news programming. I think most people would support more CC news content from public broadcasters. What I'm not seeing, though, is anything about giving away entertainment programming, which is much more expensive.
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Replying to @iD4RO @amandacconn
yes, I think news is where it should begin. And I get the quandry when it comes to making slick scripted bingeable content - it's so expensive to make that perhaps you need to act like a big showbiz brand to monetize it. In which case...why make it?
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Replying to @JesseBrown
The CBC does not seem to be acting any differently than the BBC and other public broadcasters, which make ambitious programming and then license it internationally. Your expectation of the CBC to do something radically different, for free, seems unrealistic.
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Replying to @iD4RO
Again, the BBC is ad-free for the people who fund it. That's a huge difference. I don't think the CBC should give away its stuff internationally, just here. However: why do we need other countries to do something first before we do it?
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Replying to @JesseBrown @iD4RO
A lot of this is just a question of money. If the CBC were better funded I'm sure they'd love to remove ads from TV. They already don't have them on radio. Likewise a better funded broadcaster wouldn't need to worry as much about recouping costs on shows.
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Replying to @EthanCoxMtl @iD4RO
the opposite is true. They'd love to introduce ads to radio and have already done so when they could get away with it: on CBC Radio2 and in releasing radio online (podcasts). Once FM is done, ad-free CBC Radio will go too.
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Replying to @JesseBrown @iD4RO
But I think that's born of desperation in the face of repeated cuts and the need to bring in new revenue. I agree it should be ad-free, but that requires a significant government investment in boosting the budget to compensate for lost ad revenue.
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Replying to @EthanCoxMtl @JesseBrown
You can't ask the CBC to be the BBC without also tripling its funding. Jesse, have you ever advocated such a massive increase in CBC's government funding?
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Replying to @iD4RO @EthanCoxMtl
yes in fact, I've often said I'd be willing to pay much more for public broadcasting if it were in fact public broadcasting - not a commercial/public hybrid that makes dubious commercial content, starves its news org and hurts the media industry by acting as a competitor.
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This is moving the goal post. It's an argument for not doing Alias Grace at all (as opposed to having it run on Netflix at same time).
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I wasn't changing the parameters of my original argument, I was responding to Ishmael's question. But yes, if CBC can only make shows like this by withholding access to them from Canadians and selling ads against them, I question why we need to make them at all.
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Replying to @JesseBrown @HeerJeet and
But it's such a lovely show, showcasing Canadian talent. And access wasn't withheld, it was on CBC.
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