Selected Presentations
  • January 2010. "Towards an Holistic Approach to Information Policy" FIMS Winter Speaker Series at London Public Library. (London, ON)
  • November 2009. The Copyright Debate: Finding the Right Balance for Teaching, Research and Cultural Expression sponsored by the University of Western Ontario Libraries (London, ON).
  • October 2009. Applying Privacy by Design Concepts to Copyright Policy sponsored by capCHI (Computer-Human Interaction in the Ottawa Area)(Ottawa, ON).
  • October 2009. Opening Plenary Session,  Hot Copy: Perspectives on Canadian Copyright. The Alberta Library Netspeed Conference (Calgary , Alberta)
  • October 2009. Copyright: Retaining and Sharing Rights to Your Scholarship. Sponsored by University of Toronto Libraries, Open Access Week (Toronto, ON).
  • October 2009. The copyright policy paradox: Overcoming competing agendas within the digital labour movement. Panel 6(b), Digital Labour: Workers, Authors Citizens Conference (full conference program)
  • February 2009. "A Holistic Approach to Information Policy Issues." Keynote Address for University of Alberta, School of Library and Information Studies Professional Development Day. (Edmonton, Alberta).
  • October 2008. Keynote Conference Speaker, Jumpstarting the Public Sphere, Information Policy Issues for the 21st Century, sponsored by the British Columbia Library Association, Information Policy Committee. A Critical-Holistic Approach to Information Policy  (Vancouver B.C.)
  • October 2008. Presentation on Copyright and Fair-Dealing in Canadian Universities sponsored by the UBC Faculty Association (Vancouver B.C.) 
  • October 2008. Presentation on Copyright and Fair-Dealing in Canadian Universities sponsored by the UVic Faculty Association  and the Royal Roads University  Faculty Association (Victoria B.C.) 
  • July 2008, Presentation on Bill C-61, sponsored by Tillsonburg Linux Users Group (tillug) [details] (Tillsonburg, ON).
  • June 2008. Presentation on Copyright Law, Post-secondary Education, and Bill C-61. Canadian Roundtable on Academic Materials, sponsored by University of Alberta Bookstore (Toronto, ON).
  • June 2008. Copyright Law & Policy: Issues for Public Libraries and a First Look at Bill C-61. Presentation for Bulrington  Public Library. (Burlington, ON).
    Presentation on Bill C-61, sponsored by Tillsonburg Linux Users Group (tillug) [details] (Tillsonburg, ON).
  • June 2008. Presentation on Copyright Law, Post-secondary Education, and Bill C-61. Canadian Roundtable on Academic Materials, sponsored by University of Alberta Bookstore (Toronto, ON).
  • June 2008. Copyright Law & Policy: Issues for Public Libraries and a First Look at Bill C-61. Presentation for Bulrington  Public Library. (Burlington, ON).
  • June 2008. Constraining the Flow of Knowledge in Post-Secondary Education: Copyright as Impediment to Teaching, Learning and Research , panelist on program Intellectual Property, Information & the Knowledge Economy, Conference on Education, Culture and the Knowledge Economy   sponsored by Center for Innovation Law and Policy , University of Toronto Faculty of Law (Toronto, ON).
  • June 2008. Internet Filtering in the Public Library: Charter Issues. Presentation for Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) (Ottawa, ON).
  • June 2008. Rountable Participant: Emerging Law and Technology Theories II: The Road Ahead. Law and Society Association / Canadian Law and Society Association Joint Annual Meeting. (Montreal, Quebec)
  • May 2008. Panelist on program Inside Talk: Freedom of Speech in the Library Workplace, sponsored by Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom, Canadian Library Association (Vancouver, BC).
  • May 2008. An Analysis of the New Copyright Legislation.... or the Lack Thereof, sponsored by Copyrght Working Group, Canadian Library Association (Vancouver, BC).
  • May 2008. Advocating Copyright: A Discussion Concerning Fair Dealings and Educational Exceptions(debate), Canadian Library Association, Preconference P2, Copyright  0.9,  co-sponsored by CLA Information Commons Interest Group and the Resource Sharing Interest Group. (Vancouver, BC).
  • May 2008. Presentation on Panel,  The Educational Exemption and Fair Dealing: Where Should the Limits be Set? Conference on Copyright in Canada: Rights, Responsibilities, Reform, sponsored by Insight Information. (Toronto, ON)
  • May 2008. Presentation on Copyright Law and Public Libraries (with Laura Murray) for Kingston-Frontenac Public Library (Kingston, ON).
  • April 2008. Presentation on Copyright Law and Policy and its Implications for Research for the Canadian Consortium for Research (Ottawa, ON).
  • April 2008. Copyright & Post-Secondary Education, Presentation at  CopyCamp 2008 . (Toronto, ON).
  • April 2008. Presentation on Copyright Law and Public Libraries for Vancouver Public Library (Vancouver BC).
  • April 2008. Presentation on Copyright Issues in Post-secondary Education.co-sponsored by the Faculty Association of Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia Faculty Association  (Vancouver, BC)[overheads]
  • March 2008, Book Talk: Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide. Collected Works Bookstore (Ottawa, ON).
  • February 2008. Presentation on Copyright Law and Post-Secondary Education. for the Canadian Federation of Students, National Graduate Caucus (Toronto, ON).
  • January 2008. Introduction to Copyright Law and Prospects for New Legislation. Presentations for Concordia University Libraries (Montreal, Quebec). [overheads]
  • January 2008. Introduction to Copyright Law and Prospects for New Legislation. Presentation for London Public Library (poster)(London, ON).
  • November 2007. Presentation on Copyright Law and Policy. Conference on Campus Bookstore, sponsored by University of Alberta Bookstore. (Toronto, ON).
  • October 2007. Panelist, Roundtable on Current Issues in Copyright. 2nd biennial Conference of the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities, Carleton University (Ottawa, ON).
  • October 2007. Authors and Authenticity Panel, The Role of Incentives in a Critical Theory of Intellectual Property Policy. 2nd biennial Conference of the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities, Carleton University (Ottawa, ON).
  • September 2007. Internet Filtering in the Public Library: Censorship or Customer Service? FIMS Brown-Bag Lunch Series, University of Western Ontario (London, ON).[overheads]
  • May 2007. Canadian Library Association.  Panelist (A5) Copyright Changes Coming? (St. John’s, NL).
  • April 2007. Digital Copyright in a User-Generated World.  Panelist on Canadian Perspectives.  University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law (London, ON).
  • January 2007. Panelist on Commercialization of Higher Education Panel Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations Conference “Restructuring the Academy: Current Realities and Preferred Direction” (Toronto, Ontario).
  • October 2006. Seventh Colloquium on the Legal Profession. Polemics and Professionalism. Panelist on Crossfire Panel on Professionalism and Commercialism. (Toronto, Ontario).
  • October 2006. Panelist, Intellectual Property Ownership on Campus “Intellectual Property Ownership and the Commercialization of University Research. Canadian Association of University Teachers Conference on Controlling Intellectual Property: The Academic Community and the Future of Knowledge (Ottawa, Ontario).
  • June 2006. Canadian Library Association. Panel speaker, “Laying Librarianship on the Line: Can Libraries be Neutral in the 21st Century? (Calgary, Alberta).
  • April 2006. Panelist on Canadian Intellectual Property Panel. Fordham Conference on Intellectual Property (New York, N.Y.)
  • March 2006. Information Flows and the Transfer of Knowledge: A Conceptual Approach for Policy Makers, McGill University, 2006 Meredith Lectures. (Montreal, Quebec)
  • December 2005. Presentation on Copyright Policy and Academic Libraries (for the librarians at the University of Toronto) (Toronto, Ontario)
  • September 2005. Comparative IP and CyberLaw Conference. Copyright and Education Panelist, “Fair-Dealing and Education” (Ottawa, Ontario).
  • July 2005. American Association of Law Libraries, panel speaker, “Copyrights, Copywrongs and the Gray Areas In-between.” (San Antonio, Texas)
  • June 2005. Canadian Library Association. panel speaker, “Laying Librarianship on the Line: Can Libraries be Neutral in the 21st Century? (Calgary, Alberta).
  • June 2005. Canadian Library Association, panel speaker, “International Trade Issues Update.” (Calgary, Alberta).
  • June 2005. Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and Canadian Association of Learned Journals, panel speaker. “Copyright: Balancing the Act.”(London, Ontario).
  • April 2005.  University of Western Ontario, Society of Graduate Students, speaker. “Introduction to Copyright Policy.” (London, Ontario).
  • March 2005. Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Executive Board. Presentation on Copyright Policy. (Ottawa, Ontario).
  • January 2005. McGill University, Faculty of Law.  Léger Robic Richard Seminar Series in Intellectual Property, “The Illusive Search for Justificatory Theories: Copyright, Commodification and Capital,” (Montreal, Quebec).
  • (Nov 2004) Long Island Library & Research Council - 13th Annual Conference on Libraries and the Future. "Challenges to Fair Use in the Digital Environment" (Oakdale, NY).
  • (June 2004) Canadian Law Forum/ Canadian Law & Society Association. “The Ownership and Commodification of Legal Knowledge” (Winnipeg, Manitoba).
  • (June 2004) Canadian Library Association.  Advanced Licensing Workshop (Victoria, B.C.)
  • January 2004. Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) - Eugene Garfield Dissertation Award, Presentation. “Information for Society: Towards a Critical Theory of Intellectual Property Policy.”  (San Diego, California).
  • November 2003. McGill University, Canadian Library Association Student Chapter. Presentation,  "WTO-GATS and the FTAA: Double Trouble for Libraries and Public Information Services." (Montreal, Quebec).
  • November 2003. Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Workshop Presentation, "The Changing Landscape of Copyright Policy: New Challenges for Educators." (Ottawa, Ontario).
  • November 2003. Charleston Library Conference. Workshop Presentation, "An Information-Flow Model for a Holistic Information Policy: Relationships between Copyright, Privacy and Censorship." (Charleston, S.C.) 
  • November 2003. Charleston Library Conference. Breakfast  Presentation, "Copyright and Scholarly Publications: Emerging Issues." (Charleston, S.C.)
  • October 2003. CASCON 2003. Legal Issues Panelist, “Free Trade: Implications for Digital Copyright Issues ” (Toronto, Ontario).
  • September 2003. Canadian Law & Economics Association. “Beyond Justification:  The Political Economy of Copyright in an Age of Commodification.” (Toronto, Ontario)
  • July 2003. American Association of Law Libraries. AALL-Lexis Call for Papers Award Presentation. “Databases and the Fields of Law: Are There New Divisions of Labor?” (Seattle, Washington).
  •  June 2003. Canadian-American Research Centre for Law and Policy, University of Windsor, Facuty of Law. NAFTA at Ten: Harmonization and Legal Transformation. Intellectual Property Panelist.“Fast-Track Trade Authority and the Free Trade Agreements: Implications for Copyright Law.” (Windsor, Ontario).
  • June 2003. Canadian Library Association / American Library Association. Panelist: War, Trade and Activism: A Case for International Responsibilities in Librarianship. (Toronto, ON).
  • June 2003. Canadian Association of Law Teachers. (2003 Annual Conference) Intellectual Property Panel “TRIPS, WIPO and the Draft FTAA: Is Three a Crowd?” (Halifax, NS)
  • May 2003. Canadian Association for Information Science.(31st Annual Conference) “GATS and Public Library Services” with Kirsti Nilsen (Halifax, NS). [Abstract]
  • February 2003. University of Toronto, Information Rights Salon. “Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Does Canada Really Need It?” (Toronto, Ontario). [Abstract]
  • January 2003. Ontario Library Association. Working at the Knowledge Front Panelist, “The Impact of International Trade Agreements on Public Library Services.”
  • October 2002. CASCON 2002. Legal Issues Panelist, “The Anti-Circumvention Rules: Are They Really Necessary?” (Toronto, Ontario).
  • June 2002. Canadian Library Association. “Copyright, Cultural Policy and the WTO-TRIPS Agreement: The Issues for Libraries.” (Halifax, Nova Scotia).
  • June 2002. Canadian Association of Law Teachers.(2002 Annual Conference) Panelist: E-Commerce and Issues in Intellectual Property. (Toronto, Ontario)
  • May 2002. Canadian Association for Information Science. (30th Annual Conference) “Toward a Critical Theory of Copyright Policy.” (Toronto, Ontario).
  • March 2002. Workshop on Technology, Legal Information, and Legal Knowledge. University at Buffalo Law School. Panel on Technology and the Profession of Law. “Databases and the Fields of Law: Are There New Divisions of Labor?” (Buffalo, New York). [Abstract]
  • November 2001. Canadian Digital Libraries Symposium, Digital Library Policy and Issues panel “Anti-Circumvention Rules and Their Impact on Digital Libraries.” (Toronto, Ontario)
  • November 2001. CASCON 2001. Legal Issues Panelist, “The Anti-Circumvention Rules:A Fetter on Technological Advance?” (Toronto, Ontario)
  • July 2001. American Association of Law Libraries. Annual Meeting Conference Panelist, “New Realities in Data Protection: The Trans-Atlantic Debate.” (Minneapolis, Minnesota).
  • July 2000. American Association of Law Libraries. Annual Meeting, Government Relations Committee Advocacy Workshop Panelist. “Pending Database Legislation.” (Philadelphia Pa.). [Statutory Protection for Databases and Compilations: A Resource List]
  • March 2000. Northern California Association of Law Libraries. Spring Institute Program Panelist. “Government Relations and the Impact on Law Librarians” (San Francisco, California).