Tonight I had the opportunity to participate in the copyright consultation roundtable in Gatineau. The roundtable was the largest and longest to-date – 20 participants with some of the most active copyright organizations in the country in attendance. I will follow this post with two more: one with my opening remarks and the other with a brief summary of the evening. The full transcript and audio file should be posted in a few days.
The participants (in the order they spoke):
- Serge Sasseville, Quebecor
- John Lawford, PIAC
- Jeremy deBeer, University of Ottawa
- Steve Wills, AUCC
- Rick Theis, Canadian Alliance of Student Associations
- Michael Geist, University of Ottawa
- Violet Ford, Inuit Circumpolar Institute
- Paul Jones, CAUT
- Mathew Johnson, Media Awareness Network
- Brian Boyle, Canadian Photographers Coalition
- Diana Nemiroff, Canadian Museums Association
- Rosalie Fox, Canadian Association of Law Librarians
- Laura Murray, Queen's University
- David Keeble, Consultant
- Roanie Levy, Access Copyright
- Nancy Morrelli, Association of Canadian Archivists
- Jay Kerr-Wilson, Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright
- Graham Henderson, CRIA
- Jessica Litwin, Canadian Conference of the Arts
- Fran Cutler, CNIB
I saw Rick Theis speak at a Senate hearing some time back. He’s the man.