How does intellectual property law affect what you hear on your radio dial? Learn about copyright, royalties, tariffs and the emerging trend towards a creative commons.
Tina Piper, McGill Law Faculty Tina Piper explores why artists, scientists and inventors create and innovate through the lens of intellectual property law, legal history and results from empirical investigations. She is currently conducting funded research into the role of patent pools in providing access to medicines, policy levers in Canadian patent law and policies to promote open, collaborative scientific networks. She is co-project lead of Creative Commons Canada. Before joining McGill, Professor Piper clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. She completed graduate work at the University of Oxford as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar. She is a member of McGill's Centre for Intellectual Property Policy.
Professor Piper graduated from the University of Toronto's Engineering Science program as a National Scholar with a specialization in Electrical/Biomedical Engineering. She then graduated as the gold medallist at Dalhousie Law School in 2001.
Owen Chapman, Concordia Owen Chapman is Assistant professor in Communication Studies at Concordia University (Montreal). Owen Chapman is also a DJ and sample-based composer under the moniker "Opositive". His sound art ranges from intermedia performance (incorporating original music, video projection and live scratch DJing), to studio-based composition. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in sound production and the history of media technology. He has written on audio sampling for a variety of academic publications including M/C: Journal and The Canadian Journal of Communication. His work has been commissioned internationally for radio, video and contemporary dance. Tune into the mix.
Hugh McGuire Hugh McGuire is a Montreal-based writer, web developer and community builder. He is the founder of LibriVox.org, a volunteer project to make free audio versions of public domain books; and co-founder of Collectik Software, a developer of a web-based on-demand media manager, and other web applications.
In a former life, Hugh was an engineer and worked in the energy sector with a focus on climate change issues, for a large electric utility company, a financial brokerage, and an alternative energy technology company.
