Registry of Lobbyists
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2026-03-31
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Justice and Law Enforcement,
Media
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Abuse of dominance and anti‑competitive business practices related to online search, search advertising and display advertising services in Canada.
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Policies or Program
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Government Procurement,
Media
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Align the Government of Canada advertising policy with the Government of Canada's "Buy Canadian Policy" by directing the Agency of Record to ensure a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses.
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Policies or Program
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Budget,
Media,
Taxation and Finance
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Amend the definition of a Qualified Canadian Journalism organization (QCJO), requiring that an organization regularly employ two or more journalists to include: journalists who do not deal at arm’s length with the organization. This would generally include owners/partners who actively pursue, research, analyze, explain, edit, format, design, write or report the news, or select, plan, or assign work, in accordance with journalistic processes and principles. They would work, on average, a minimum of 26 hours per week and spend at least 75% of their time engaged in the production of original written news content, including researching, collecting information, verifying facts, photographing, writing, editing, designing and otherwise preparing content.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution,
Policies or Program
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Media
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Eliminating commercial advertising, including branded content, associated with CBC/Radio-Canada’s news and public affairs properties.
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Policies or Program
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Consumer Issues,
Media
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Ensure Canada Post continues to perform its vital role deliver community newspapers to Canadians. Have Canada Post return to the long-standing policy of exempting community newspapers with commercial inserts (e.g., flyers from local hardware and grocery franchisees) from the Consumers’ Choice program. Community newspapers with commercial inserts are not ‘junk mail’.
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Policies or Program
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Media
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Ensure any policy changes to the Aid to Publishers component of the Canadian Periodical Fund take into account the importance of the program, especially to smaller rural community newspapers.
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Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit,
Policies or Program
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Intellectual Property,
Media
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Ensure that the Copyright Act is not modified through an exception permitting Text and Data Mining (TDM) allowing AI companies to use Canadian news publishers' protected works to train generative AI systems without consent, credit, or compensation.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Intellectual Property,
International Trade,
Media
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Ensure that the Online News Act continues and that funding is distributed in accordance with the Act and its Regulations. Ensure social media services covered by the Online News Act do not allow publisher content to be reproduced (screen shots, copied text, etc.) without providing compensation to news businesses.
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Policies or Program,
Regulation
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Media
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Extending the Local Journalism Initiative.
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Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit,
Policies or Program
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Media,
Taxation and Finance
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For transparency and to facilitate verification of eligible news publishers under the Online News Act, make the list of Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations public.
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Policies or Program
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Media,
Taxation and Finance
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Keep advertising in dollars in Canada by closing the loophole in Section 19 of the Income Tax Act that allows for the deductibility of foreign internet advertising.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution,
Policies or Program
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Media,
Taxation and Finance
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Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%.
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Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit,
Policies or Program
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Intellectual Property,
Justice and Law Enforcement,
Media
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Protect intellectual property by preventing LLMs from scraping journalistic content. Ensure search engines cannot abuse their dominant position by de-indexing Canadian news sites if publishers block their AI bots from crawling our protected content without consent, credit, and compensation.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution,
Policies or Program
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Government Procurement,
Intellectual Property,
Media
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To halt the theft of copyright protected news content, Public Services and Procurement Canada and Treasury Board should ensure those on the government’s list of interested artificial intelligence suppliers sign a "supplier commitment to support the Government of Canada’s effort in leading the way on ethical AI” that includes a commitment to the principles of transparency, consent, and attribution with respect to all copyright-protected source content.
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Policies or Program
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Intellectual Property,
Media
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Abuse of dominance and blocking Canadian user access to trusted news sources.
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Policies or Program
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Justice and Law Enforcement,
Media
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Anti‑competitive business practices related to online search, search advertising and display advertising services in Canada.
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Policies or Program
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Consumer Issues,
Media
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Change to Canada Post's Consumers' Choice program, which is harming community newspapers.
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Policies or Program
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Intellectual Property,
Media
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Copyright Act -- ensuring there is no artificial intelligence crawling without consent, credit, and compensation.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Intellectual Property,
Media
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Copyright Act, with respect to copyrights and remuneration rights for news media organizations.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Government Procurement,
Media
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Directing 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses.
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Policies or Program
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Government Procurement,
Media
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Directing a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses.
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Policies or Program
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Justice and Law Enforcement,
Media
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Ensure search engines cannot abuse their dominant position by de-indexing Canadian news sites if publishers block their AI bots from crawling our protected content without consent, credit, and compensation. This practice discourages other AI companies from entering into fair content licensing agreement with news publishers.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution,
Policies or Program
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Intellectual Property,
Media
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Ensure that news businesses are compensated fairly under the Online News Act. Ensure funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.” Ensure social media social media services covered by the Online News Act do not allow publisher content to be reproduced (screen shots, copied text, etc.) without providing compensation to news businesses.
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Policies or Program,
Regulation
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Intellectual Property,
Media
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Ensuring funding from Google under the Online News Act is distributed in accordance with the Online News Act and Regulations. Only eligible news businesses (as defined by Section 27 of the Act) should receive funding. Per the Online News Act Application and Exemption Regulations: SOR/2023-276, the distribution must be based “only the number of full-time equivalent employees who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by each news business for the purpose of producing, for news outlets operated by that business, original news content that is intended to be made available online.”
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Policies or Program,
Regulation
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Government Procurement,
Media
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Fairness in federal advertising expenditures and placement.
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Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit,
Policies or Program
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Consumer Issues,
Media
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Having Canada Post return to the long-standing policy of exempting community newspapers with commercial inserts (e.g., flyers from local hardware and grocery franchisees) from the Consumers’ Choice program. Community newspapers with commercial inserts are not ‘junk mail’.
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Policies or Program
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Media,
Taxation and Finance
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Tax measures related to journalism labour and advertising.
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Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit,
Policies or Program
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Communication techniques that have been used or are expected to be used in the course of the undertaking:
| Date | DPOH, Position Title | Government Institution | Subject Matters |
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| 2026-05-05 |
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Budget, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-05-01 |
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Budget, Government Procurement, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-04-30 |
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Consumer Issues, Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media |
| 2026-04-30 |
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Budget, Consumer Issues, Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Justice and Law Enforcement, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-04-28 |
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Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-04-17 |
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Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-04-15 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Justice and Law Enforcement, Media |
| 2026-04-14 |
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Budget, Consumer Issues, Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-03-31 |
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Budget, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-03-27 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media |
| 2026-03-27 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-03-23 |
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Government Procurement, Media |
| 2026-03-12 |
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Media |
| 2026-02-27 |
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Intellectual Property, International Trade, Justice and Law Enforcement, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-02-26 |
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Government Procurement, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-02-24 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-02-23 |
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Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-02-23 |
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Intellectual Property, Media |
| 2026-02-05 |
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Intellectual Property, Media |
| 2026-02-05 |
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Media |
| 2026-02-05 |
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Government Procurement, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-02-05 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-01-30 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-01-28 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Justice and Law Enforcement, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2026-01-13 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Justice and Law Enforcement, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-12-15 |
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Justice and Law Enforcement, Media |
| 2025-11-04 |
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Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-10-23 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media |
| 2025-10-15 |
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Government Procurement, Media |
| 2025-10-14 |
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Government Procurement, Media |
| 2025-10-03 |
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Government Procurement, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-10-02 |
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Government Procurement, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-09-23 |
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Intellectual Property, Media |
| 2025-09-22 |
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Intellectual Property, Media |
| 2025-09-22 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-09-19 |
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Intellectual Property, Media |
| 2025-09-10 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-09-05 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-09-04 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-09-02 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-08-22 |
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Intellectual Property, Media |
| 2025-08-19 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-08-11 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-08-06 |
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Intellectual Property, Media |
| 2025-07-24 |
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Intellectual Property, Media |
| 2025-07-18 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-07-17 |
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Government Procurement, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-07-16 |
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Intellectual Property, Media |
| 2025-07-10 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-07-08 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-06-26 |
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Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-06-12 |
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Government Procurement, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-06-11 |
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Government Procurement, Media |
| 2025-06-09 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-06-05 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-05-29 |
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Government Procurement, Intellectual Property, Media, Taxation and Finance |
| 2025-05-20 |
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Intellectual Property, Media |
| 2025-05-16 |
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Intellectual Property, Media |