Webcast - Michael Geist on "Facing Up to Facebook: The Fight for Fair Copyright in Canada"

Tomorrow afternoon our friend Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, will deliver a webcasted lecture on "Facing Up to Facebook: The Fight for Fair Copyright in Canada."  You can email questions before the talk to ipilogue@gmail.com, and tune in tomorrow at 2:40!

The talk, part of Osgoode Hall Law School's Putting Theory to Practice (PTTP) lecture series, is described as follows:
In December 2007, the Canadian government planned to introduce new copyright legislation that was to have mirrored the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. A Facebook group was formed to advocate against such reforms and for balanced copyright laws. Within weeks, nearly 40,000 Canadians joined the group, with members writing and calling their elected representatives, educating their local communities, and staging public protests. In the face of this opposition, the Canadian government delayed introducing the legislation. The "Canadian copy-fight" attracted considerable attention from the mainstream media, with many wondering how copyright had emerged as a contentious policy issue. This talk will assess the Canadian experience in an effort to answer the oft-asked question – "why copyright?".