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CBC Ideas on Who Owns Ideas? (Actually the CBC does)

By Christopher Moore | September 10, 2008

Ideas on CBC Radio the other night ran a program by one of its staff producers on “Who Owns Ideas?” — available here

Haven’t had a chance to listen yet. But from the lineup, the conclusion looks predictable.

I have a personal connection here. I used to freelance documentaries for Ideas; great program, wonderful people to work with, many good programs created together. I had started to drift away from radio (I have a great voice for print, frankly), but about that time they introduced a new contract (much to the regret of Ideas staff as well as us freelancers) that required freelancers to surrender copyright to CBC, so the Corp could have unlimited re-use rights without compensation. It’s not precisely because of that that I’ve never done another one, but…. Anyway, when the CBC asks “Who Owns Ideas?” I know the answer already!

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