Introduction: In the past two decades, the Canadian federal government, the province of Quebec, and the federal broadcast regulator, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), have regulated the film distribution industry by adopting proprietary rights policies. The...

Most viewers and performers are probably unaware that NCN has been the focus of a continuing trade dispute between Canada and the United States, one of an increasing number of disputes affecting the cultural industries. Most of these cases arise from friction between Canadian domestic policies...

We began this paper by crawing attention to the need for an economic framework for gathering information about and assessing cultural initiatives. A start towards developing economics based categories and pressure points for institutional sutdies followed. Finally, we applied this approach to...

The broader set of evidence considered in this paper has strengthened our belief in the need to reorient domestic policy. On the international side, we still advocate the integration of cultural policy into a well conceived international system.

The development of an appropriate regime for trade, investment and the movement of creative and professional workers in the cultural industries will be among the issues for negotiation at the WTO in 2002 and beyond. One proposal calls for a New Instrument on Cultural Diversity (NICD), an...