{"id":110,"date":"2009-04-04T08:09:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T15:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/04-2\/wheat-from-the-chaff-b-c-s-highest-court-rules-that-adbusters-media-foundation-can-sue-cbc-and-global-tv"},"modified":"2011-07-13T21:21:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T04:21:26","slug":"wheat-from-the-chaff-b-c-s-highest-court-rules-that-adbusters-media-foundation-can-sue-cbc-and-global-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/110","title":{"rendered":"B.C.&#8217;s highest court rules that Adbusters Media Foundation can sue CBC and Global TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/110\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"blog\"><!-- back and forward --><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogbody\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">By Charlie Smith <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">April 4, 2009 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">www.straight.com <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Vancouver-based Adbusters Media Foundation has won an appeal in B.C.\u2019s highest court to add the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a defendant to a lawsuit against Global Television Network Inc. and Global Communications Limited. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">In a unanimous three-member decision released Friday (April 3), the B.C. Court of Appeal overturned a previous B.C. Supreme Court ruling tossing out the foundation\u2019s case against Global. This allows the case to proceed in B.C. Supreme Court. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">The foundation, which publishes Adbusters magazine, brought the action because Global and CBC have refused to broadcast its paid anticommercial messages on the same terms as other ads. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">The foundation claimed that the decisions by the CBC and Global violated its right to freedom of expression under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Writing for the B.C. Court of Appeal panel, Justice Ian Donald stated that Adbusters had based its argument on the Broadcasting Act&#8217;s declaration that radio frequencies are public property. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">The panel disagreed with B.C. Supreme Court Justice William Ehrcke&#8217;s 2008 ruling tossing out the action because it was \u201cbound to fail\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">In this earlier decision, Ehrcke also refused an application by Adbusters to add CBC as a defendant. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">According to Ehrcke\u2019s ruling, Adbusters prepared 10 broadcast-quality ads focusing on fast food, fashion, the beauty industry, the use of sex and violence on television, and the commercialization of society. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Global refused to run nine of them; CBC accepted some ads for restricted airing, but wouldn\u2019t put them on CBC Newsworld or the main CBC network during news or current-affairs programming. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">In 1995, Adbusters unsuccessfully argued that the CBC violated its charter right by refusing to broadcast anti-advertising advertisements. Ehrcke relied on this decision when he issued his ruling. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">In recent years, court decisions have suggested that the constitutional right to freedom of expression exists in certain areas under \u201cpublic control\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">The Canadian Federation of Students and the B.C. Teachers&#8217; Federation won a B.C. Court of Appeal decision in 2006 declaring they had this right when it tried to buy political ads on public buses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">The Supreme Court of Canada still hasn&#8217;t issued its decision after TransLink filed an appeal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">However, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2005 that a Montreal strip club had a charter right to freedom of expression when it broadcast music and words from a loudspeaker onto the streets. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u201cAs such, it [the public-control argument] deserves further consideration in the course of this action,&#8221; Donald wrote in the April 3 Adbusters ruling, &#8220;and it cannot be said to be plain and obvious that when the theory is applied to the facts asserted in the pleadings the action is bound to fail.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posted\">Posted by <a href=\"mailto:cwelch@lexiconic.net\">Colin Welch<\/a> at 3:55 PM<br \/>\n<em>Edited on: Monday, April 06, 2009 7:59 PM<\/em><br \/>\nCategories: <a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff2\/archives\/cat_bcpolitics.html\">BC Politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff2\/archives\/cat_themedia.html\">The Media<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Charlie Smith April 4, 2009 www.straight.com &nbsp; Vancouver-based Adbusters Media Foundation has won an appeal in B.C.\u2019s highest court to add the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a defendant to a lawsuit against Global Television Network Inc. and Global Communications Limited. 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