Speaking
A passionate and experienced public speaker, I have delivered over 100 invited lectures and presentations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa. My goal is always to translate research insights into practical recommendations, whether speaking with policymakers at international organizations, Parliamentarians at governmental committees, business leaders at industry conferences, among academic audiences at scholarly events, or to the general public through media appearances. Speaking is also an important part of my legal practice, for example discussing strategy with law firms and businesses, or appearing in cases before the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Best Practices for Intellectual Property in International Trade Deals
Intellectual property provisions in international agreements should not be negotiated secretly, but transparently…
Innovation Appropriation: A Role for IP in the Informal Sector?
I was in Geneva recently to participate in a special session about innovation, IP, and the informal economy…
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Best Practices for Intellectual Property in International Trade Deals
Intellectual property provisions in international agreements should not be negotiated secretly, but transparently…
Innovation Appropriation: A Role for IP in the Informal Sector?
I was in Geneva recently to participate in a special session about innovation, IP, and the informal economy…
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Digital Locks and Private Copying Levies
The relationship between private copying levies and digital rights management tools is a major challenge in copyright law. Different types of copyright-holders generally prefer different approaches. Individual authors and performers and their representative societies have favourable attitudes towards levies, while major producers and distributors tend to prefer the control...
How Digital Rights Management Backfired on Sony BMG Music
When Sony BMG snuck restrictive contractual terms and digital rights management technologies onto tens of millions of CDs in 2006, the strategy backfired by alienating consumers as well as artists and leading to class action litigation against the company. My article explains, “How Restrictive Terms and Technologies Backfired on...
Access to Knowledge About Ag-Biotech
At the Access to Knowledge Conference that took place in March 2006 at Yale University in New Haven, USA, I spoke about my research on Canadian ag-biotech patent law, covering parts of my research published in various articles I’ve written about this...
“Sucking and Blowing in the Wind”: Contradictions in Ag-Biotech Law & Policy
In January 2006 I delivered an invited lecture called, “Sucking and Blowing in the Wind,” which highlighted contradictions in the way that Canadian law deals with the patent rights and tort liabilities of owners of genetically modified organisms. This lecture discusses an issue I have spoken and written about...
Genetic Information Technologies, Property Rights and Tort Liabilities
At the IT.CAN Annual Conference in Montreal in October 2005 I presented my research drawing parallels between digital rights management technologies used in the context of information communications technologies, and genetic use restriction technologies used to control...
How to Compensate Artists for Private Copying
My work on the topic of artist compensation in Canada was presented to the Uniform Law Conference of Canada’s annual meeting in St. John’s, Canada in August 2005. The ideas presented were incorporated into an article on the role of levies in Canada’s digital music marketplace, published in the...