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McGill University’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and the Schulich School of Music hosted a one-day copyright conference entitled “Musical Myopia, Digital Dystopia: New Media and Copyright Reform”.

Webcast of it here – with good quality video (Windows Media) and slides.

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The video is 3 1/2 hours long – so here’s the running order on the day:

9:00 – 9:15 DEANS’ WELCOME (Don McLean, Dean of Music – Nicholas Kasirer, Dean of Law)

9:15 – 10:45 THE DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT DILEMMA

- David Lametti, McGill Faculty of Law (moderator)
- Bruce Lehman, International Intellectual Property Institute
- Ann Chaitovitz, US Patent and Trademark Office
- Michael Geist, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
- Terry Fisher, Harvard University

10:45 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:30 POLICY RESPONSES AND REACTIONS

- Sunny Handa, Blakes / McGill Faculty of Law (moderator)
- Charlie Angus, NDP
- Charles Morgan, McCarthy Tétrault
- Sandy Pearlman, McGill Faculty of Music

Found via Derek Slater’s blog entry and Michael Geist’s blog entry.

A talk on Intellectual Property that is truly beautifully crafted and told!

The State of Surveillance!

The bunker bit at the end rocks!

Suw Charman of The Open Rights Group and T.J. McIntyre of Digital Rights Ireland on “Government and Privacy in the Digital Age”.

Tim O’Reilly has come under fire for a web 2.0 report he is charging for.

Here’s a talk he did in 2002*:

Just imagine he says Web 2.0 alot and you’ve saved yourself $395!

*Tim starts speaking from 09:10 on.

Greg Papadopoulos of Sun Microsystems and Prof. Larry Lessig on DRM

Cory Doctorow on DRM at the 2006 Red Hat Summit

Don’t download this song by “Weird Al” Yankovic.

Quotes:

“…they’ll treat you like the evil, hard-bitten, criminal scum you are..”

“… even Lars Ulrich knows it’s wrong.”

How prescient.

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