Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 12:30pm to Friday, September 25, 2015 - 1:55pm
Location: 
FA3, Falconer Hall

 

THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION LAW & POLICY 

Presents 

 

Paul Hoffert

University of Toronto 

 

Automating Music Similarity Analysis: An Artist's View of Using Computer Software

 to Support Copyright Infringement Litigation

 

Thursday, September 24, 2015

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Room FA3, Falconer Hall

84 Queen's Park

 

 Lunch will be served.

 

Please register, by sending an email to: centre.ilp@utoronto.ca.

 

The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy is pleased to present Paul Hoffert, Professor of Music, Law, and Information Science at University of Toronto and Chair of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund. Author, innovator, educator, composer and recording artist, Paul Hoffert will tell us about the promise and pitfalls of using computer technology to answer one of copyright law’s most difficult questions: when does one work infringe another? Are computers smart enough to draw the line between permissible similarity and infringement, or are the lines too blurred for a mere machine to evaluate?

 

 

For more information on the Centre for Innovation Law & Policy, go to http://innovationlaw.org/ . For more information on Paul Hoffert, go to http://www.paulhoffert.ca/ .

 

Made possible by a generous gift from Microsoft Canada.