“JumpTV.com, a Canadian webcaster that wants to retransmit television programming over the Internet, doesn’t understand why its plan is making people so jumpy … Canada’s compulsory license law allows companies to retransmit television programming broadcast over the air. This includes the fare of most major networks such as NBC, CBS, ABC and, in Canada, CBC, CTV and Global. Companies that retransmit television broadcasts pay a fee to the federal government that in turn is redistributed to each of the television networks. Nothing in the law excludes webcasters from retransmission, says Farrell Miller, the CEO of JumpTV…”
Click here to read the full Wired.com story. Here is the Canadian Association of Broadcasters website.
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