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This week Wednesday I'll be
moderating a panel of expert speakers visiting the University of Ottawa
to talk about copyright culture and documentary films. Here's the
description; hope to see you Wednesday.
 Documentary
films are profoundly important to any modern, liberal, democratic
society. Films can be informative, entertaining, educational,
insightful, critical, expressive and more all at once. They are
significant economically, artistically, socially, politically and
culturally.
Yet documentary filmmakers in Canada and around the world increasingly
face obstacles to creating their art. Copyright law, policy and
practice can be one such obstacle, though paradoxically copyright
protection can also be critically important to filmmakers. The concept
of fair dealing or fair use of copyright-protected works represents a
way out of this paradox. If properly implemented in practice, the fair
dealing doctrine can facilitate access to the raw materials creators
need to make documentary films while fulfilling their own reasonable
requirements for copyright protection.
On February 18, 2009 the Torys Technology Law Speakers Series presents
a panel of internationally-renowned experts from Canada and the United
States, discussing the practical impact of copyright culture on
documentary films, and the creation of best copyright practices for
fair dealing in the documentary film community. Join the conversation
from 11:30 - 13:00 in room 147B of the University of Ottawa's Faculty
of Law.
This week Wednesday I'll be moderating a panel of expert speakers visiting the University of Ottawa to talk about copyright culture and documentary films. Here's the description; hope to see you Wednesday.
Documentary films are profoundly important to any modern, liberal, democratic society. Films can be informative, entertaining, educational, insightful, critical, expressive and more all at once. They are significant economically, artistically, socially, politically and culturally.
Yet documentary filmmakers in Canada and around the world increasingly face obstacles to creating their art. Copyright law, policy and practice can be one such obstacle, though paradoxically copyright protection can also be critically important to filmmakers. The concept of fair dealing or fair use of copyright-protected works represents a way out of this paradox. If properly implemented in practice, the fair dealing doctrine can facilitate access to the raw materials creators need to make documentary films while fulfilling their own reasonable requirements for copyright protection.
On February 18, 2009 the Torys Technology Law Speakers Series presents a panel of internationally-renowned experts from Canada and the United States, discussing the practical impact of copyright culture on documentary films, and the creation of best copyright practices for fair dealing in the documentary film community. Join the conversation from 11:30 - 13:00 in room 147B of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law.
Please visit http://letsdoccopyright.ca/
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Place: Room 147B, Fauteux Hall, 57 Louis-Pasteur St
Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Lunch will be served.
Please RSVP to
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or RSVP on the Event page on Facebook: http://uottawa.facebook.com/event.php?eid=47808879274
For more information, please visit http://www.commonlaw.uottawa.ca/tech
our Facebook group at http://uottawa.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7105812116
or the website for this panel, http://letsdoccopyright.ca
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