[d@DCC] Competition Bureau Discontinues Inquiry into Motion Pictures Industry

[Russell McOrmond]

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Kristofer Coward wrote:

> It doesn't look to be, since the complaint was filed mainly against
> theatres, with whom the distributors were complicit. We still have a
> chance to complain that CSS is anti-competetive, it seems.

  I did post too quickly before reading the backgrounder which contained
no reference to the home market for movies at all.  It did serve as a 
reminder of this critical issue, and possibly will spark some interesting 
discussion.


  I suspect that the Competition Bureau's Intellectual Property
Enforcement Guidelines (IPEG)  is where we need to get involved in.  This
was the reason given by Mike Murphy of the bureau to not investigate the
complaint sent in.

  What we may need to do as a community is to somehow spark discussion on
IPEG and to try to reverse the belief that claimed "intellectual property"  
(not even recognized copyright, patents, etc) should trump competition
policy.

  http://www.flora.ca/innovation-2002.shtml#ipeg

  I added a more recent summary to my personal weblog:  
http://weblog.flora.ca/article.php3?story_id=313

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