U of T copyright conference
p2pnet.net News:- Friday, February 11, is the date set for the student-run Technology and Intellectual Property Law Group of the University of Toronto’s one-day conference, “Sound Bytes/Sound Rights: Canada at the Crossroads of Copyright Law.”
In 2004, “the Standing Committee for Canadian Heritage issued recommendations for changes to the Copyright Act broadening copyright protections.
“In the same year, the Canadian courts headed in the opposite direction by handing down important judgments recognizing user rights. The conference will be a forum for law students and academics as well as practicing lawyers, policy makers and those in the music industry to hear about and discuss the emerging legal framework for copyright law in Canada with a particular emphasis on music and entertainment law.”
Speakers will include musicians Paul Hoffert and Neil Leyton, Michael Geist (Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa and author of the “Law Bytes” column in the Toronto Star), Bob Young (co-founder of Red Hat Software), Sarmite Bulte, MP (Parliamentary Secretary to the minister of Canadian heritage and the chair of the 2004 standing committee), lawyers Ron Dimock and Barry Sookman, Casey Chisick (professor of intellectual property law at the University of Toronto), and Graham Henderson (president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association).
Also speaking will be William W. Fisher III, director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and author of Promises to Keep: Law, Technology and the Future of Entertainment.
The conference will be held in Flavelle House, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, 78 Queen’s Park, Toronto, from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
Admission is $30.00 for pre-registration, $40.00 at the door. Admission is free for college and university students but registration beforehand is essential. For registration and more information, go here.
January 23rd, 2005 at 4:43 pm
Quick editorial note from Russell McOrmond – http://www.flora.ca/
Some text was attributed to me based on http://www.digital-copyright.ca/discuss/4378 . I was just forwarding text from a press release I was sent.
I don’t agree that the Heritage report expands copyright related creators rights, but excessively expands priviledges for old-economy intermediaries, so I wouldn’t have used the wording there. In the language of some of the business textbooks I have read, the Heritage report increases the ability of companies to “game” the market by abusing inappropriate government regulations for their own personal gain.
I believe that the collective societies trying to collect works outside of their repertoire and the industries like recording industry fighting to control the means of production and distribution of music are doing considerable dammage to this part of our economy.