Appeared in the Toronto Star on September 5, 2005 as Overturning Satellite Ruling Would Signal Lobbyists ReignAppeared in the Ottawa Citizen on September 8, 2005 as Radio Daze Last summer, just as Liza Frulla was being installed as Canada’s new Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission […]
Articles by: Michael Geist
Access Copyright’s Beneficiaries
The Toronto Star today publishes a letter to the editor from Maureen Cavan, the Executive Director of Access Copyright that responds to Monday' s column on education and copyright. Not surprisingly, Ms. Cavan disagrees with the column, arguing that In his column, Geist describes Access Copyright as one of two […]
In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law
I am delighted to announce an exciting book project that will launch in several weeks. In response to Bill C-60, a large group of Canadian academics have come together to produce to a peer-reviewed book on copyright law in Canada. Irwin Law will publish the 608-page In the Public Interest: […]
The Coming Battle Over Education and Copyright
My weekly Law Bytes column (freely available hyperlinked version, Toronto Star version) focuses on the coming battle over copyright and education in Canada in light of the recent premiers' commitment to higher education and the likely summit with the Prime Minister on the issue this fall. I argue that the […]
Canadian Education Requires More Than a Bigger Cheque
Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 29, 2005 as Education Summit Shouldn’t Be Only About MoneyAppeared in the Ottawa Citizen on September 1, 2005 as Put E-learning, Access, Research First The recent provincial premiers meeting in Banff, Alberta brought welcome news of a commitment to focus greater attention on […]
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