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http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/mcewen07.htm

The above is just an article published to a government website.

And of course in Canada there are limits to foreign ownership of media outlets (foreign ownership cannot be majority), as well as foreign content in media.

The World Press Freedom Index [1] might be a good place to start exploring. You can click on individual countries to see trends. However, I have a hard time getting more details from the site.

[1] http://index.rsf.org/

when I see China being the second to the last in the list, I have to say Beijing is doing the right thing to keep this kind of BS out of its boundary.

This is pretty close to the situation in the US with patent law.

It's technically illegal to make something with a round corner because that's Apple's patent. If you piss off Apple, they'll try to enforce it. If you don't piss them off, they won't care. The law will side with Apple because they have better lawyers than you do.