This includes working with industry to streamline licensing practices and industry agreements for more sustained use and wider availability of European works; investing in online tools for the legal digital distribution of European works in countries where they have not been released in cinemas or where there is no national distributor; supporting a catalogue of European films to give VOD services a well curated catalogue of films from different producers; and promoting interoperable standard identifiers for seamless and reliable identification of works. Promote wider access to EU works, and a ...[+++]ddress linguistic barriers through more efficient funding subtitling and dubbing (including an online repository); investing in a European aggregator so that people can find more easily a legal offering of films online; promoting the use of data and automated tools for content recommendation, in view of developing and enlarging audiences for European works; working with film industry to promote the discoverability of European films and exploring joint promotion strategies for European co-productions; and creating and funding in 2017 a catalogue of European films for educational purposes to present the diversity and quality of European films to young audiences. Exploring new business models, starting with the EU animation sector by discussing how animation films and television animation can travel even better and discussing how the sector can scale up.

‘free of charge’ means the provision of the road safety-related minimum universal traffic information service at no extra cost for the end users at the point of use.

(Return tabled) Question No. 865 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to cuts in government funding to newcomer settlement organizations: (a) how does this policy reflect Canada’s commitment to cultural diversity; (b) what, if any, needs assessments of newcomers to Canada have been undertaken over the last five years, if none were undertaken, why not, and of those undertaken, (i) when were they undertaken, (ii) by whom, (iii) what were the results, (iv) what were the chief recommendations; (c) what was the detailed process undertaken to examine funding of newcomer settlement programs, which led to the government's cuts; (d) over the past five years, how much money did the government promise to invest in newcomer settlement ...[+++]services, by province and territory, and what amount was actually invested in newcomer settlement services, by province and territory; (e) how was the decision to cut $53 million from newcomer settlement organizations made, (i) what were all the procedural steps in the decision-making process, (ii) what stakeholders were consulted, (iii) which departments were involved in the decision-making process, (iv) what formulas were used, (v) how was it determined that 85 percent of the cuts were necessary in Ontario; (f) what percentage of the Ontario cuts to newcomer settlement organizations were made in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA); (g) how many newcomers arrived in Canada in each of the last five years, (i) how many newcomers arrived in each of the provinces and territories, (ii) how many people settled in each of the provinces, (iii) how many people settled in each of Canada’s ten largest cities; (h) what information does the government have regarding the movement of newcomers from one province to another or from one city to another in the newcomers' first three years after arrival in Canada; (i) from which countries did the newcomers arrive in each of the last five years and, for each country identified, (i) what are the official languages spoke ...

Film on-line services are becoming a commercial reality in Europe.

In Belgium, a number of cinemas (Cinéma Paradiso in Charleroi, Cinema Plaza Art in Mons) are celebrating the 75th anniversary of talking cinema by showing early talking films and silent films with musicians.

That question was raised in proceedings between the Japanese company Canon Kabushiki Kaisha ('CKK') and the American corporation Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., formerly Pathe Communications Corporation ('MGM'), following MGM's application in Germany in 1986 for registration of the word trade mark 'CANNON' to be used in respect of the following goods and services: 'films recorded on video tape cassettes (video film cassettes); production, distribution and projection of films for cinemas and television organisations'.