Articles by: Michael Geist

What’s The Frequency, Liza?

My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available hyperlinked version) focuses on the explosive battle over satellite radio in Canada. I begin by recalling Canadian Heritage Minister Liza Frulla's position on the entry of RAI, the Italian language television network, into Canada last summer. Despite enormous pressure, the […]

September 5, 2005 — Comments are Disabled — Columns

Satellite Radio’s Shift From Policy to Politics

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 […]

September 3, 2005 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive

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 […]

August 31, 2005 — Comments are Disabled — News

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: […]

August 29, 2005 — 2 comments — News