Canadian Copyright Summit
p2p news / p2pnet:- If you’re in Ottawa, Canada, (or if you can get there) here’s an event you’ll want to make note of.
It’s the Copyright Summit and Conference scheduled to begin at 12:00 noon tomorrow (September 29) with the launch of the Creative Commons licensed book, In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, edited by professor Michael Geist.
It’ll be followed Friday and Saturday with the Canada-Australia Comparative IP and Cyberlaw Conference, a bilateral conference between Canadian and Australian IP, Privacy and IT legal experts.
Thursday
12:00 Book Launch
1:00 Special Lecture, Dr Tom Faunce, Australia National University
2:00 Information Technology Law Society, Student Panel
3:30 Informal Discussion of copyright reform Bill C-60 with representatives from Industry Canada and Canadian Heritage
Friday
8:30 – 5:00 Canada-Australia Comparative IP and Cyberlaw Conference
Saturday
8:30 – 5:00 Canada-Australia Comparative IP and Cyberlaw Conference
For more information:
Irwin Law’s webpage for In the Public Interest – http://www.irwinlaw.com/books.cfm?pub_id=120&series_id=3
The Law & Technology Program homepage – http://web5.uottawa.ca/techlaw/index.php
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September 29th, 2005 at 12:41 am
Soft Cover | 608 pages
Published: 26-Sep-05
ISBN: 1-55221-113-4
$50.00 CDN
Hmm–is there an online version? Sounds like pretty essential reading, but by the time I finish reading it, I fear it will be out of date.
September 29th, 2005 at 2:28 am
Take a closer look – the book is available for free download under a Creative Commons license. Simply link on any article to download.
September 29th, 2005 at 11:30 pm
This is a very active area of law, and many of the articles go well beyond the harm that exists in Bill C-60 (harm against the interest of both the majority of creators and the public), and to understanding the nature of the debate itself.