Giest gives Hart House lecture
p2p news / p2pnet: If you’re Canadian and you’re following attempts by the entertainment and software cartels to turn Canada into mini-America, you’ll be interested in a talk in Toronto at the end of the month.
Professor Michael Geist will deliver the 2006 Hart House Lecture at the University of Toronto on March 30 and he’s called his presentation, Our Own Creative Land: Cultural Monopoly and the Trouble With Copyright.
The lecture will be the Hart House Great Hall and tickets, free, are available at the U of T Ticket Office, online by phone (416-978-8849), or in person (7 Hart House Circle, on the lower floor of Hart House).
Make sure you get your tickets early!
"The lecture will weave together a number of themes that I have focused on in recent months including reflecting on the Bulte incident, highlighting the opportunities presented by the Internet, placing the current round of copyright reform in context, and sketching out an alternative, forward-looking vision of Canadian copyright law," says Geist.
His talk will be recorded for radio and TV.
Stay tuned.
March 9th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
Here’s a good read from Michael Geist that I haven’t seen here yet:
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_4/geist
March 9th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
http://p2pnet.net/story/3209
March 10th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Thanks for the post, I’ll be going to this, esp since it’s free and I live a few subway stops away from Hart House area.
Maybe I’ll take some notes re the lecture and send them to you Jon..
TT