Education, Culture and the Knowledge Economy Speaker
Elizabeth F. Judge
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law,
Common Law Section, University of Ottawa
Presumed Intentions: Implied Licence
for Public Body Uses of Copyrighted Works
Date: Friday, November 23, 2007
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Place: Solarium FA2, Falconer Hall, 84 Queen’s Park
As governments move to increasing public online access to materials, the privacy implications for personal information in the posted material and the Crown copyright issues are beginning to be considered. This lecture will address the separate issue of the copyright implications for materials in which copyright is owned by third parties. The lecture will analyse the extent to which the Crown is permitted to use private copyrighted materials and, in turn, the extent to which the Crown can make those works available to the public, considering in particular theories of implied licence and waiver.
Dr. Elizabeth F. Judge is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, where she is a member of the law and technology group specializing in intellectual property. She is a founding editor and the Editor-in-Chief and Faculty Advisor for the University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal, project leader for Open Access Law Canada, and the co-author of Intellectual Property: The Law in Canada and Le droit de la propriété intellectuelle. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary law and literature scholarship, especially intersections between copyright and authorship. Her current research, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, studies eighteenth-century fan fiction of iconic fictional characters in the emerging genre of the eighteenth-century British novel, the history of copyright law, and legal and literary ideas of originality and authorship.
Please RSVP to: centre.ilp@utoronto.ca or 416-978-3724
www.innovationlaw.org
A light lunch will be provided
Sponsored by the Microsoft Law and Information Society Project
