samtrosow.ca - Premier responds to librarians' G20 concerns

Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Copyright's Rationales

Reviews:

Quill and Quire

Excess Copyright

CAUT Bulletin

Laura Murray is an Associate Professor in the English Department of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and creator of the website www.faircopyright.ca.

Samuel Trosow is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. He is jointly appointed in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies.

Blog Roll

arielkatz.ca/

cippic.ca

Creators' Access Copyright

digital-copyright.ca/

excesscopyright

fairduty.wordpress.com/

freedom-to-tinker.com/

Recording Industry vs The People

Social Justice Librarian

techdirt.com

torrentfreak.com

Union Library Workers

whithertheuofa.blogspot.com/

Recent Decisions

Federal Court of Appeal
Alberta (Education) v. Access Copyright
2010 FCA 198 (July 23, 2010) (pdf)
US Federal Court of Appeals
MGE UPS Systems Inc. v. GE Consumer and Industrial Inc.
(5th Cir. July 20, 2010)
Supreme Court of Canada
Ontario (Public Safety and Security) v.
Criminal Lawyers’ Association
(June 17, 2010)
Federal Court of Appeal
SOCAN v Bell Canada (May 27, 2010)
(Application for Leave filed Aug. 13, 2010)
Copyright Board
Repographic Reproductons (Educational Institutions)

Reasons (June 26, 2009)
BC Supreme Court
(November 24, 2008)
Canwest Mediaworks v Horizon Publications
US Federal District Court
(Southern District NY)
Viacom v YouTube (July 2, 2008)
Commentary
US Federal District Court
(Eastern District of Virginia)
A.V. v IParadigms (March 11, 2008)
(Commentary)
Copyright Board
Reproduction of Sound Recordings by Commercial Radio Stations

Reasons (Feb. 29, 2008)
Commentary (Howard Knopf)
WTO (WT/DS285/ARB, Dec. 21, 2007),
Press (NY Times, Register),
Commentary (William Patry, Howard Knopf)
Copyright Board
SOCAN Tariff 22.A (1996-2006)
Internet - Online Music Services
Reasons (Oct. 18, 2007)
Copyright Board
Private Copying 2008-2009
Reasons (July 19, 2007)

Premier responds to librarians' G20 concerns

Wednesday, 04 August 2010

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has responded to the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) acknowledging their submission on the G20 summit. While he doesn’t say much in the response, (indeed he fails to acknowledge any provincial responsibility); it is good that he at least acknowledged the letter that was sent from BCLA on July 16th. BCLA had expressed concerns about "the unprecedented curtailment of civil liberties that took place in the June 2010 meeting of the G20 in Toronto" and they for a full public inquiry. No doubt the Premier is wondering why he is hearing from a library association from BC and not the Canadian Library Association (CLA) itself (or for that matter the Ontario Library Association).

As I indicated in an earlier posting , CLA has so far remained silent on the issue even though its Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom had recommended issuing a statement of concern.

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS).

Before coming to Western, I was a law librarian at the Boalt Hall Law Library at the University of California at Berkeley and before that I was in private law practice in California. My doctoral work in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA focused on information policy issues.

I am currently a Network Investigator and Theme Leader with the GRAND NCE and also serve on the Librarians Committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers.