I will be giving several talks on copyright issues in the next few weeks in London, Calgary and Toronto:

London:

Sunday, October 18th, 3pm

UWO, North Campus Bldg, Room 114

The copyright policy paradox: Overcoming competing agendas within the digital labour movement.

 Panel 6(b), Digital Labour: Workers, Authors Citizens Conference (full conference program)

Toronto: Tuesday, October 20th 3pm
Gerstein Science Information Centre (9 King’s College Circle), Alice Moulton Room (2nd Floor)
Copyright: Retaining and Sharing Rights to Your Scholarship

University of Toronto Libraries, Open Access Week

Calgary: Wednesday, October 21st, 7:30 pm
Carraige House Inn, Calgary Alberta

Hot Copy: Perspectives on Canadian Copyright

The Alberta Library, Netspeed Conference,Opening Plenary Session

Ottawa: Thursday, October 22nd, 6:00 pm

The Code Factory, 246 Queen Street

(Between Bank & Kent, second floor)

Applying Privacy by Design Concepts to Copyright Policy

sponsored  capCHI (Computer-Human Interaction in the Ottawa Area)

London: Wednesday, November 4th,  2 pm

UWO Natural Science Centre, Room NS1

The Copyright Debate: Finding the Right Balance for Teaching, Research and Cultural Expression

sponsored by the University of Western Ontario Libraries

NOTE: This talk will be postponed in the event of a Librarians-Archivist Strike or Lockout

Abstracts. . . 

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Here is my submission in pdf .

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As the government's Copyright Consultations enters the home stretch, you still have time to make your voice heard.  The submission period will run until Sunday September 13th.

Submissions can be sent to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , and they are being posted at the government's official consultation website along with transcripts from the roundtables and town hall meeting.

More information and commentary is available at Speak Out on Copyright website.

Unfortunately, the submissions are only listed chronologically on the official website. Here are some selections from organizations and individuals. . . 

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The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) has issued a  Call for Action on the current Copyright consultation.

The Federation is urging its member associations and institutions to get involved with the consultation process which will run until September 13th.

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Copyright news from the United States has not been good lately. Between the file-sharing lawsuits, the appointments of RIAA lawyers to key government positions and the continuation of failed policies on the international front, there's been little to celebrate. But a Federal Court in Pennsylvania issued a thoughtful decision last week upholding a claim of fair-use, based largely on the transformative nature of the work.

The controversy in Warren Publishing Co. v. Spurlock, centred on publication of the book, "Famous Monster Movie Art of Basil Gogos," which was a retrospective about Basil Gogos, the artist whose work appeared frequently on the covers of movie monster magazines in the 1950s and '60s.

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