Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Copyright Law Blogs -> Michael Geist

Copyright Law

: Michael Geist

Canadian Copyright Reform & the Digital Agenda: Public Event on October 14th

By Michael Geist

The details for next week's launch of From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda have come together.  A public discussion of Canadian copyright reform and Bill C-32 will held on Thursday, October 14th at 3:30 pm at the Desmarais Building, Room 12102 (55 Laurier Avenue East) at the University of Ottawa.  Panelists include:

• Michael Geist, University of Ottawa, "The Case for Flexibility in Implementing the WIPO Internet Treaties: An Examination of the Anti-Circumvention Requirements"
• Blayne Haggart, Carleton University, "North American Digital Copyright, Regional Governance, and the Potential for Variation"
• Ian Kerr, University of Ottawa, "Digital Locks and the Automation of Virtue"
• David Lametti, McGill University "How Virtue Ethics Might Help Erase C-32's Conceptual Incoherence"
• Teresa Scassa, University of Ottawa, "Copyright Reform and Fact-Based Works"
• Elizabeth Judge, University of Ottawa, "Enabling Access and Reuse of Public Sector Information in Canada: Crown Commons Licenses, Copyright, and Public Sector Information"

A reception will follow the panel.  The entire event is free and open to the public.

Full post as published by Michael Geist on October 08, 2010 (boomark / email).