Barry Sookman

Speeches & Media

Continuing Legal Education ProgramsToronto Computer Lawyers Group, Year in Review 2018 to 2019, (June 13, 2019)

McCarthy Tétrault 8th Annual Technology Law Innovation Summit, (April 18, 2019)

CAN-Tech: Intellectual Property Update (Moderator) (October 2018)

ALAI International Injunctions International Injunctions for Copyright Infringement, (September 14, 2018)

The Association of Corporate Counsel, Year in Review, June 22, 2018

Copyright Society USA (CSUSA): Participate in debate on online remedies for digital environments (June 2018)

IT.CAN Annual Spring Conference: Key Copyright Issues for Technology Law, (May 28, 2018)

Fordham University: Copyright & Trademark Enforcement: FairPlay Canada’s Website-Blocking Proposal, (April 6, 2018)

PrimeTime Annual Conference: website blocking and the FairPlay proposal (February 2018)

Toronto Computer Lawyers Group, Year in Reviewing 2017 to 2018, (January 2018)

Incopro: the Equuustek case (December 2017)

Data Marketing Conference: CASL Town Hall (November 2017)

Ontario Economic Summit: Intellectual property and Innovation (November 2017)

Canadian Copyright Institute: Interviewing Justice Rothstein, Five Years After the Copyright Modernization Act (November 2017)

September 15, 2016 – McT: Protect Your Brand – Practical Tips & Topical IP Issues

June 28, 2016 – McT: TPP – How Will This Impact Your Business?

June 14, 2016 – TCLG Year in Review

April 14, 2015 – McT Technology & Innovation Summit: TPP Overview

January 21, 2016 – LSUC 20th Annual IP Law: Year in Review

December 10, 2015 – 21st Annual Regulatory Compliance for Financial Institutions: Cyber Threats, Privacy, Security and Evolving Data Breach Obligations

October 5, 2015 – Association of Canadian General Counsel: Cloud Computing: Security and Privacy Challenges and Legal Risks

October 2, 2015 – AIPF 2015 Annual Meeting: Developments on Copyright Law in Canada

June 25, 2015 – McCarthy webinar: PIPEDA Digital Privacy

June 10, 2015 – Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group: Year in Review

CBAO: CASL One Year Later: Advice for Preventing a $1.1 Million Penalty

May 13, 2015 – McCarthy 4th Annual Technology Law Summit

May, 2015 – McCarthy Technology Law Summit – Cloud computing

May 4, 2015 – IT.Can Spring Program Fundamentals of technology Contracting

April 30, 2015 – Lexpert Conference – CASL Overview and The Anti-Spam Provisions

April 30, 2015 – ASPER INTLAW CONFERENCE – April 30th, 2015Cybersecurity Challenges and Responses

April 24, 2015 – LSUC 12 minute civil litigator

April, 2015 – McCarthy Program CASL: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

April 7, 2015 – OBA CASL

April 1, 2015 – McCarthy Webinar: Data Breach

January 22, 20915 – LSUC 2015 Year in Review

January 15, 2015 – SIIA CASL

June 17 & 18, 2014 – IT.CAN Spring Forum

June 5, 2014 – Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group: Year in Review

April 28-29, 2014 – National Technology Client Summit

April 7, 2014 – OBA: Countdown to Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation: Make Sure You Are Ready

February 18, 2014 – CASL webinar presentation for the Canadian Bar Association – British Columbia

January 16, 2014 – Year in Review: Copyright (2013) for Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC)

November 13, 2013 – Canadian Institute: Regulatory Compliance for Financial Institutions Best practices for complying with the OSFI B-10 outsourcing regulations

November 7, 2013 – Quebec Bar Association Conference on Anti-Spam Law

October 25, 2013 – IT.CAN Complex IT Service Agreements (Panel)

October 10, 2013 – IP Osgoode, User Generated Content under Canadian Copyright Law: Is the UGC exception in conformity with international treaty standards?

October 8, 2013 – Canadian Publishers’ Council: Canada’s Anti-spam Law (CASL): A Primer for members of the Canadian Publishers’ Council

October 5, 2013 – Association of Canadian General Counsel: Cloud Computing: Security and Privacy Challenges and Legal Risks

September 30, 2013 – Ontario Bar Association TECHxpo 2013, Ethical and Efficient Ways to Use Social Networking in Business Development

September 27, 2013 – Canadian Association of University Solicitors (CAUS) 2013 Conference Canada’s Anti-spam Law (CASL)

June 27, 2013 – Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group: The Year in Review: Developments in Computer, Internet, and E-Commerce Law (2012-2013)

June 18, 2013 – IT.CAN Spring Program: Representations, Warranties and Indemnities – A Primer (with Helen Aston IBM)

June 6, 2013 – The Six‐Minute Business Lawyer 2013, The Law Society of Upper Canada, Current Issues in Negotiating IT Contracts – Challenges of Cloud Computing

May 24, 2013 – McCarthy Technology Law Summit

May 9, 2013 – CLHIA 2013 Compliance and Consumer Complaints Annual Conference: Putting all the pieces together: Canada’s Anti-spam Law (CASL)

January 10, 2013 – Law Society: 17th Annual Intellectual Property Law, The Year in Review – Copyright

April 25, 2012 – Law Society of Upper Canada: Old Rules for New Issues with New Media: Is There a Gap in IP Law? Employment Law and the New Workplace in the Social Media Age

September 20, 2012 – McCarthy Tétrault Law Summit: What Every Business Needs to Know About Technology Law

October 2, 2012 – University of Toronto Law School: ESA v SOCAN

September 20, 2012 – Law Society of Upper Canada, The Twelve-Minute Civil Litigator 2012: Impact of the Internet on Contract Law and the Principles of Offer and Acceptance (Century 21 Canada v Rogers Communications)

June 21, 2012 – TCLG: Year in Review: Developments in Computer, Internet and E-Commerce Law (2011-2012)

June 19,2012 – IT.CAN 2012 IT Law Spring Forum: IP Indemnities – A Primer

June 14, 2012 – LEXPERT: Anti-Spam Presentation

January 12, 2012 – Law Society of Upper Canada: 16th Annual IP Law, The Year in Review

October 27, 2011 – IT.CAN 15th Annual Conference: “IP Update – Copyright”

September 22, 2011 – Canada’s Anti-spam Law: Spam & Spyware: Risks in E-Commerce

September 2011 – LEXPERT: Canada’s New Anti-Spam Legislation: A Very Wide Objective, A Very Wide Swath

September 6, 2011 – Osgoode: Intellectual Property Law & Technology Program: Technology Focus: Internet and IT

August 5, 2011 – ABA: Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries: CyberRogues and Web Pirates! New Frontier of Counterfeits and Squatters in Film, Fashion & Music

June 15, 2011 – Toronto Computer Lawyers Group: Year in Review: Developments in Computer, Internet and E-Commerce Law (2010 – 2011)

January 26, 2011 – IT.CAN Quarterly Roundtable Series: Impacts of the New Anti-Spam and Anti-Spyware Legislation (Bill C-28)

January 13, 2011 – Law Society of Upper Canada: 15th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review, Copyright Update

December 8, 2010 – Insight: Rights and Copyright Bringing Canada into the 21st Century – Bill-32: Legal Protection for TPMs

November 24, 2010 – Toronto Intellectual Property Group (TIPG): Here We Go Again: Copyright Reform and Bill C-32

November 17, 2010 – Osgoode Professional Development CLE program, Understanding Bill C-32

November 11, 2010 – ITAC: Implications of Bill C-32 on software and networking

October 29, 2010 – IT.CAN 14th Annual Canadian IT Law Association Conference: Recent Developments in IT Law

May 26, 2010 – Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group: A Year in Review Developments in Computer, Internet and E-Commerce Law (2009-2010)

January 14, 2010, 14th Annual Law Society Intellectual Property Law – The Year In Review (Copyright 2009)

October 22-23, 2009 – IT.CAN, 13th Annual Canadian IT Law Association Conference, Conference Co-Chair, and Current Trends in Limits of Liability and Indemnification (Moderator)

May 29, 2009 – McCarthy Tétrault LLP Anti-Spam Bill Raises Concern (Webinar with Lorne Salzman and Charles Morgan)

May 19, 2009 – TCLG & E-Commerce Section of OBA: Year in Review, Developments in Computer, Internet and E-Commerce Law

April 30, 2009 – May 1, 2009 – IT.CAN LSUC Annual Spring Training Program

February 23, 2009 – ITAC, Copyright Reform in Canada Bill C-61 – An Overview

January 15, 2009 – LSUC 13th Annual IP Law: Year in Review, Update on Copyrights presentation with Glen Bloom

October 27, 2008 – IT.Can, 12th Annual Canadian IT Law Association Conference, Moderator

October 22, 2008 – Insight Conference: Entertainment Industries Summit: Emerging and Ongoing Canadian Copyright Issues

May 14, 2008 – Insight Conference: (Program Chair) Copyright in Canada

April 3, 2008 – Open Innovation/Collaboration: Technology in Bloom, New Developments in Technology Law (OBA)

March 30, 2008 – Insight Conference: (Moderator) Global Licence for the Monetization of the File-Sharing of Music on the Internet

January 18, 2008 – Law Society of Upper Canada, 12th Annual IP Law: Year in Review Conference: Are IP Rights Out of Control?

November 20, 2007 – York University, Recent Computer and Internet Law Developments in IP

October 23, 2007, Canadian Institute: (Moderator) Entertainment Industries Summit

September 19, 2007, Ministry of Government Services Commercial Law Group: Risk Issues in Outsourcing

June 27, 2007, Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group, “The Year in Review: Computer, Internet and E-Commerce Law”

June 15, 2007, Osgoode Hall Law Professional Program, “Copyright Remedies”

May 23, 2007, Computer Law Association (Host) “Computer Intelligence”

May 14, 2007, 7th Annual IT.Can IT Law Spring Program, “Security and Privacy Issues in Outsourcing Transactions”

March 22, 2007, Canadian Institute: (Moderator) Copyright Reform: Protecting Creators’ Rights in the Digital Age

October 26, 2006 – Insight: Entertainment Industry Summit, Toronto, “Copyright Reform: Bringing Canada Up to Global Standards” (Moderator of Panel)

September May 29-30, 2006 – IT.Can: 6th Annual Spring Training, “IT Law Considerations for Online Transactions”

May 25-26, 2006 – Osgoode: IP Licence Agreements, “Representations and Warranties in Licence Agreements”

26, 2006 – Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group: Annual Conference, “The Year in Review 2005-2006”

March 27, 2006 – OBA: Technology in Bloom 2006, “Recent Copyright Developments”

February 15, 2005 – “Implications of the Patriot Act on Outsourcing in Canada,” (Chair) IT Canada Roundtable

February 24, 2005 – “Software and Technology Agreements,” Insight Conference

April 8, 2005 – “Is Copyright Keeping Up With Changes in Technology?” CBAO Conference on Technology In Bloom

April 8, 2005 – “Distribution Challenges in the Digital Universe,” Law Society of Upper Canada

May 12, 2005 – IT.Can Spring Training Program (Chair)

June 1, 2005 – “The Year in Review,” Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group

September 15, 2005 – “Technological Protection Measures: Do the Anti-Tampering Provisions Go Too Far, or Not Far Enough?” Insight: Copyright Reform in Canada

September 16, 2005 – “Recent Issues in Copyright,” Association of Corporate Counsel, Mount Tremblay

September 16, 2005 – Insight Conference on Copyright Reform (Chair)

October 28, 2005 – IT.Can Annual Meeting, “International IT Law Update” (moderator), and debate (with David Basskin) and Professor Kerr and Professor Geist on legal protection for technological protection measures

October 6, 2004 – “Significant Issues in Internet Law,” CASCON 2004

September 20, 2004 – “The implications of the Tariff 22 Decision,” IT.Can

September 19, 2004 – “Internet Liability: The Tariff 22 Case,” CBAO

June 4, 2004 – “Copyright in the Internet Age,” CAB, CCTA Copyright Symposium

June 2, 2004 – “Critical Issues in Outsourcing,” CIO Outsourcing Summit

May 31, 2004 – “Computer and Internet Law: A Year in Review,” Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group

May 26, 2004 – “Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in IT Products” (Moderator of panel), IT.Can Spring Training Programme

March 30, 2004 – “Internet Jurisdiction,” Netlaw

October 24, 2003 – IT.Can “Developing Interoperable and Competing Products Under Copyright and Trade Secret Law”

October 2, 2003 – IT.Can Moderated Talk on Electronic and Internet Evidence

May 28, 2003 – Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group “IT-Internet Law – The Year in Review”

May 13, 2003 – IT.Can “Internet Law Update”

May 29, 2002 Insight –Jurisdiction and the Internet

May 14, 2002 Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group – “Annual Computer/Internet Year in Review”

April 22, 2002 CCCA Conference – Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in the Canadian and International Market Place

April 6, 2002 IT.Can Conference on Managing and Minimizing Foreign Jurisdictional Risks on E-Commerce

March 21, 2002 NetLaw Conference – E-Commerce

January 24, 2002 Chair IT.Can Roundtable on Privacy

December 5, 2001 Canadian Institute – Structuring IP Licence Agreements

November 7, 2001 CBAO – Privacy – What is Personal Information?

June 20, 2001 Canadian Institute – E-commerce Issues

June 2001 Osgoode Hall Law School – Commercial Legal Drafting in E-Commerce

March 26, 2001 Canadian Bar Association – Internet and E-Commerce

March 8, 2001 Net Law Conference – chaired conference and gave speech on E-Commerce Legislation

February 12, 2001 Canadian Institute – Due Diligence in Internet and E-Commerce Transactions

January 15, 2001 – Law Society Conference on Protecting Intellectual Property in Information Technology Assets (chaired conference)

December 6, 2000 Canadian Institute – Structuring IP Licence Agreements

November 15, 2000 Canadian Institute – Privacy Protection in Canada

October 31, 2000 Insight – Legal Framework for E-Commerce Transactions

October 26/27, 2000 Fried Frank in New York – Critical Issues for General Counsel: Emerging Issues in Technology Law

October 19/20, 2000 IT.Can – From Bricks to Clicks: E-Business, Moderated Panel on International Internet Regulatory Issues

October 11, 2000 Institute for International Research – E-Commerce Law: Implementing Legally Compliance E-Commerce Programs to Mitigate Risk and Reduce Loss

October 4, 2000 Ontario Chapter of Risk & Insurance Management – Cyber-Risk: E-Commerce and Risk Management

September 26, 2000 Institute for International Research – Privacy 2000 Conference – Developing a Privacy Policy for Your Internet Site that Fosters Customer Confidence and Ensures Compliance with Legislation

June 27, 2000 Canadian Institute – Intellectual Property On-Line

May 9, 2000 Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group – Caselaw Update

May 4, 2000 IT/CAN Law Association – Bill C-6, Privacy and Internet Issues

March 31, 2000 – Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs): Practical and Legal Considerations for Maintaining Privacy and Confidentiality in E-Commerce – Netlaw 2000 Conference

March 31, 2000 Canadian Institute – Netlaw Conference – Public Key Infrastructures and E-Commerce

March 22, 2000 INFONEX – Minimizing and Managing Risks Involved in Internet Commerce

March 19, 2000 INFONEX – Bullet-Proofing Your On-Line Business

January 28, 2000 Canadian Bar Association Institute – Developing and Implementing Privacy Policies

January 27, 2000 – Security of Information on the Internet – CBAO

January 27, 2000 Canadian Bar Association Institute – Security of Information in E-Commerce Transactions

December 9, 1999 – Liability Without Leaving Home: The Law of the Internet – The Canadian Institute

November 19, 1999 – Knowledge-Based Businesses: The Businesses of the Future – Pitblado Lectures – The Law Society of Manitoba

October 14-15, 1999 – Bill C-54: Sharing Information and Targeting Customers – Insight Second Annual 1999 Advertising Forum

September 13, 1999 – Security and Confidentiality Issues in E-Commerce – The Institute for International Research

June 17, 1999 – Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in E-Commerce – First Joint Canadian IT Law/CLA Conference (Moderator)

April 12, 1999 – Privacy and Security Issues in E-Commerce – Netlaw Conference

March 25, 1999 – Legal Issues Involving E-Commerce and the Internet – CBAO

February 24, 1999 – Information and Data Privacy – E-Commerce in the Year 1999

February 23, 1999 – Legal Issues Related to the Year 2000 – Infonex Conference (Chair)

February 9, 1999 – Information Technology Law Up-Date – gave speech to the Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group

November 30, 1998 – The Law of E-Commerce, Strategy Institute

November 26, 1998 – E-Commerce, Second Annual Canadian Information Technology Law Conference

November 5, 1998 – Commerce on the Internet: Legal Issues, Paper on Corporate Internet Policies (Chair of Conference)

October 20, 1998 – Copyright and Content Issues on the Web, International Trademark Association Annual Meeting

October 6, 1998 – Contracting for Information Technology, Osgoode Hall Law School

September 24, 1998 – Outsourcing Contracts Conference, Federated Press (Chair)

June 22, 1998 – Intellectual Property in the Digital Universe, Infonex (Chair)

April 18, 1998 – Copyright and the New Digital Agenda, New Developments in Communications Law and Policy: Towards the Millennium, Law Society of Upper Canada

March 2, 1998 – Contracting for Information Technology – Outsourcing Agreements, Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development Program

February 24, 1998 – Expert Purchasing of Information Technology, Federated Press (Chair)

January 29, 1998 – Doing Business Over Global Networks – CBAO Ontario

November 27 and 28, 1997 – co-chaired and organized first Canadian conference of the Information Technology Canada Law Association

September 17, 1997 – Osgoode Hall Law School Continuing Legal Education Programme – Organized and chaired conference on “Doing Business on the Internet”

June 3, 1997 – Canadian Business Press – “Legal Issues Involved in On-Line Publishing”

April 29, 1997 – Infonex – “Intellectual Property Issues for Business Agreements”

April 24 & 25, 1997 – Computer Law Association Washington – “Legal Developments in Information Technology and Communications in Canada”

March 25, 1997 – Osgoode Hall Law School Continuing Legal Education Program – “Legal Implications of Doing Business over the Internet”

January 14, 1997 – Speech to Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group – “Recent Developments in Information Technology Law”

October 30, 1996 – York University, Osgoode Hall Law School – “Copyright and Information Technology”

April 18, 1996 – Thomson & Thomson Forum – “The Impact of New Technologies on Copyright”

April 9, 1996 – Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group – “Case Law Update”

March 21 & 22, 1996 – National Intellectual Property Law Institute – “Strategic International Issues in Enforcing Copyright Issues in Computer Software”

June 19 & 20, 1995 – Insight Conference – “The Business of Licensing and Merchandising Legal and Practical Issues for Successful Licensing”

March 29, 1995 – Infonex Conference – “Software and the Electronic Distribution of Information Products”

June 9, 1994 – University of Dayton School of Law Conference on Significant Developments in Computer Law – “An Outsider’s View of United States Copyright Protection for Software”

Media Articles and Op-Eds

Copyright Board harmonization good policy, Hill Times, June 2018

Why the CRTC should endorse FairPlay’s piracy site-blocking plan, February 2018

Pirate streaming and the value gap, support fo Canada’s Content Creators is imperative January 2018

Intellectual property and the TPP, Bloomberg TV interview, February 5, 2016

Why Canada has nothing to fear over TPP and Intellectual Property Financal Post January 6, 2016

Patents aren’t defensive tools – they’re critical strategic weapons, Globe and Mail May 20, 2015 (with Judith Mackay)

Canada’s anti-spam legislation worries small business owners, The Current, CBC Radio

Delete this anti-spam law Financial Post February 28, 2013

More Fickle than Fair: Why Canada Should Not Adopt A Fair Use Regime (with Dan Glover) The Lawyers Weekly,

What Happens When Copyright Goes Digital, August 6, 2009 (with Stephen Stohn), National Post

April 18, 2000 Television Interview with CBC – Copyright and the Internet

Other presentations to Members of the Public

May 25, 2016 – ALAI Canada, Reimaging Copyright Board – Lessons from Other Jurisdictions

March 15, 2016 – Fordham TPP: The Trouble with TPP: Canadians Get Their Chance to Speak out

January 26, 2016 – ALAI Copyright & Technology: Challenges to Authors and Copyright Holders

January 19, 2016 – CIGI Roundtable on Positioning Canada to be a Leader in the Global IP System

December 8, 2015 – Hill Times: TPP Forum

November 12, 2015 – CIGI Conference on TPP and Intellectual Property, Panelist

June 8, 2015 – ALAI Cinar v Robinson

May 8, 2015 – Canadian Music Week Global Forum

May 9, 2014 – Canadian Music Week Global Forum

April 24, 2014 – Fordham: 22nd Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law and Policy: Orphan Works

April 17, 2014 – Electronic Retailing Association: CASL webinar presentation on CASL

April 15, 2014 – Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy: Complying with Canada’s New Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL)

April 12, 2014 – CIGI Institute for New Economic Thinking: Law and Innovation: Is Intellectual Property a Path to Progress

March 7, 2014 – ALAI Canada: Cinar v Robinson

March 4, 2014 – A Primer for the Legal Committee of the Global Automakers of Canada: CASL, the Final Regulations, the RIAs and the FAQs

February 7, 2014 – CASL presentation for Concordia University

January 15, 2014 – CASL presentation for Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)

September 17, 2013 – US Federal Circuit: Trade and Intellectual Property Issues in Global Recovery Economies: Best Practices, Significant Recent Developments: Internet and Copyright

April 5, 2013 – Fordham: 21st Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law and Policy: Performance Rights in Copyright: Public, Private or “Digital”? Cablevision: How It and Its Doctrines Have Fared Around the World

February 26, 2013 – Justice Canada: Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law Training Day Keynote Address: Legislative and Judicial Approaches to Internet Regulation: Case Study, Canada’s Anti-SPAM Law (CASL)

February 2, 2013 – Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association (CVMA) CASL and its impacts on vehicle manufacturers

January 18, 2013 – York University: presentation on CASL and its impacts on universities

November 3, 2012 – Ryerson, RUIT Conference: Link to Technology Dynamically: Copyright a Year in Review

October 4, 2012 – C.D. Howe Institute: Streaming the Supreme Court on Downloaded Music Royalties: Who Wins, Who Loses, Who Pays?

June 28, 2012 – Portfolio Management Association of Canada: Update of CASL

April 17, 2012 – Law Society of Upper Canada: Commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012: Working Through Copyright Issues

February 2, 2012 – Association of International Automobile Manufacturers of Canada: CASL

October 21, 2011 – Osgoode York University: Copyright Conference: “Can Canada Learn Anything from Europe?”

October 14, 2011 – Canadian Tire conference on CASL

February 3, 2011 – University of Toronto: Understanding Bill C-32, Copyright Modernization Act – Fair Dealing and Related New Exceptions

November 2, 2010 – McCarthy/Edelman Digital Social Media Summit

June 22, 2010 – Ministry of Government Services IT and e-Commerce law, the Year in Review

February 17, 2010 – Liberal Party Roundtable on the Digital Economy: Copyright, Intellectual Property Protection and the Future of Broadcasting in the Internet Age (Ottawa)

October 14, 2009 – Woodrow Wilson Center: Internet Piracy: Copyright Law in Canada and the United States

September 30, 2009 – Conference Board: Intellectual Property Rights Roundtable in Ottawa

September 25, 2009 – Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Copyright Law in Canada and the United States: The Digital Challenge

August 10, 2009 – Halifax Roundtable on Copyright Consultation for Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages

May 28, 2008 – Conference Board: Intellectual Property Rights Conference: A Catalyst for Innovation

March 21, 2007, Booknet Canada: Technology Forum 2007: Digitization and the Future of Canadian Publishing: The Fight over Copyright

February 28, 2007, Dalhousie Law and Technology Institute: User Rights and Copyright: Right, Metaphor, Red Herring?

October 5-7, 2006 – Future of Music: 6th Annual Summit, “Format Wars: Digital Rights Management and Interoperability”

June 23, 3006 – CIO Canada: Outsourcing Summit 2006, “Termination or Remediation ― Resolving a Bad Deal”

April 23-25, 2006 – International Publishers’ Association: 6th Annual Copyright Symposium, “Tensions in Copyright”

April 21, 2006 – Fordham University: 14th Annual IP Conference, “IP Law and Policy, Canada and Copyright: Rogue State or Role Model?”

April 6, 2006 – Licensing Executive Society: “RIM ATS NTP: “What Happened?”

March 24, 2006 – ALAI Canada: “Influence on Canadian Copyright Law”

March 3, 2006 – Rotman School of Business: “Protection for Technological Measures in Canada — What Should Canada Do?”

January 25, 2005 – “Information Outsourcing” CLA Conference (Host)

February 15, 2005 – “Sound Bytes, Sound Rights: Canada at the Crossroads of Copyright Law: The Music Industry after BMG v. John Doe,” University of Toronto Conference

June 16, 2005 – “To Outsource or Not: Yes, No, Maybe ―– How Will I Know?” CIO Outsourcing Summit

October 3, 2005 – “Canadian Copyright Reform – An Overview for the Canadian Publishers’ Counsel,”

October 25, 2005 – “Bill C-60 and Copyright Reform in Canada – The Issues, Players, and Moving Forward,” Osgoode Forum

May 26, 2004 – “Originality in Copyright Law” (Moderator of panel) ALAI Conference

May 11, 2004 – “Law and Politics of Open Source,” University of Toronto

April 6, 2004 – “The implications of the CCH v. Law Society Case for Canadian Publishers,” Canadian Copyright Institute AGM

February 25, 2004 – “New and Changing Business Models for Distribution of Music and Other Content,” MIT/Schulich Enterprise Forum

February 7, 2004 – “IP issues in Public Procurements,” the IP Procurement Conference

October 14, 2003 – Dalhousie University, Law and Technology Eminent Speaker speech “Influence of American Copyright on Canadian Copyright Law”

May 5, 2003 – CIO Summit panellist on Legal Issues in Outsourcing

March 4, 2003 – 45th Circuit “Enforceability of On-line Contracts”

January 21, 2003 – ALAI Canada “Influence of American Copyright Law in Canada”

November 10, 2000 University of Waterloo – Incorporating Privacy into Security Domain

September 22, 2000 Marsh Canada – Liabilities Arising from Internet and E-Commerce (E-Commerce)

September 7, 2000 University of Toronto Centre for Innovation Law & Policy – E-Commerce Legislation in Canada

June 2, 2000 Canadian German Association – E-Commerce Law Issues

May 26 2000 McKinsey & Co. – gave speech to McKinsey clients on Turbo Charging Internet Businesses

September 10, 11, and 12, 1997 – ITU Conference Switzerland – “Jurisdiction and the Internet”

June 13, 1997 – Dayton School of Law – “Jurisdiction and the Internet”

March 7, 1997 – “Legal Issues Related to the Internet” (Canadian Music Week)

February 23, 1996 – Moderator Colloquium of ALAI Canada on Multi- Media and Information Highways

February 1, 1996 – Canadian Business Press Seminar – “An Editor’s Guide to Going On-Line”