CBC Sports cannot come to terms with the copyright holder of the Hockey Night in Canada theme song.

From Andrew Coyne's "live blog" of the B.C. Human Rights Commission tribunal hearing complaint against Maclean's magazine:

CODA: There will be no more liveblogging. As I left the courtroom for the lunch break, i was taken aside by a sheepish-looking court official, who said that he’d just learned that I had been “broadcasting” from inside the courtroom. So had I. Broadcasting, I said? I didn’t have a microphone, or a camera.

No, he explained: but liveblogging counts as broadcasting. It’s not the computer that’s the problem. You can type away on it all you want. If you step outside to send it, that’s okay, too. But if you send text from within the courtroom, that’s broadcasting.

Anyway, I gave him my solemn word that I would do no more broadcasting. What with the hearings being almost over and all. It seemed a fitting way to put a cap on the week.

In the Independent last Sunday, British pundit Johann Hari spared a grudging word of support for his old adversary -- conservative commentator Mark Steyn.

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CBC's The Current had four guests on about the current dustup before the B.C. Human Rights Commission between the Canadian Islamic Congress and Maclean's magazine over the Mark Steyn article The Future Belongs to Islam.

I'll offer some notes below, in order of appearance. For the most part, I'm summarizing. For exact quotes, listen to the items (click on part two):

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Ryerson j-prof John Miller takes a run at the notorious 2006 Maclean's article ("The future belongs to Islam") by conservative polemicist Mark Steyn.

Actually, writing at thejournalismdoctor.ca, Miller also uses the p-word:

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From the Guardian:

The BBC has abandoned plans to create a "licence fee" option for users of its international news website who were outraged by the introduction of advertising last year.

BBC director of global news, Richard Sambrook, said in October that the corporation intended to offer a subscription service for international users "in the next year" after scores of complaints over the introduction of advertising to bbc.com.

However, the BBC today confirmed it had dropped the idea. "We did look into it, but all the evidence from commercial operators is that what ever people say about wanting a subscription, it is not the case," said the BBC World managing director, Anne Barnard.

"A number of other operators have moved away from subscriptions," Barnard added.