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Paul Deegan: Time to stop the theft of news content IP 

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Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Marc Miller and Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon recently hosted The National Summit on Artificial Intelligence and Culture in Banff. News publishers were very pleased to join the ministers and our other colleagues in Canada’s creative industries in this discussion.

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