Podcast of Keynote address at Mesh Conference, May 2006, Toronto, ON
Fair Dealing by Giulia Forsythe (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/dRkXwP
Copyright
Cancopy Law
The Canadian Association of University Teachers recently held a major conference on intellectual property issues. I was delighted to provide the keynote address, which I titled Cancopy Law. The talk criticized the current incarnations of “cancopy law” (which include CMEC’s Copyright Matters and Access Copyright’s Captain Copyright) and discussed the importance to education of adopting a progressive approach to copyright. A podcast of the talk is now available.
Speechless
The Hill Times this week features a special section on Canadian innovation policy that includes an email question and answer session with Industry Minister Maxime Bernier. The answers to some critical innovation questions are instructive: You are said to take a 'consumer-first' approach to your department. If you agree with […]
More Copyright Petitions at the House of Commons
Charlie Angus, an NDP MP, this week presented yet another petition calling for balanced copyright reform.
Hill Times Letters
The Hill Times runs three letters to the editor in response to Barry Sookman's column last week including one from me.
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