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Building a Better Mousetrap: Finding A More Nuanced Approach to Fostering Culture in the Digital Age
Don’t mess with the mouse is a cautionary tale about Disney’s intellectual property. Creation, education, and access are the public interest goals of copyright. Ownership of copyrighted material most often resides in corporate hands who wish to maximize their own profit through artificial scarcity and lobbying legislation and trade deals. Canadian courts have long been champions of users’ rights, which are also human rights. However liberally Canadian courts interpret copyright, access to content can still be controlled via distribution. Broadcasting and telecommunications regulations in Canada have been increasingly at odds with supporting Canadian creators. Canadian policy needs to see Canadian creators supported in a more holistic way that encompasses the needs of creators, users, and owners. Canadian policy makers need to borrow a page from Canadian creators and write a new way forward.
Lisa Macklem
PhD candidate, Law
Faculty of Law - Western University
Supervisor
Sam Trosow (https://law.uwo.ca/about_us/faculty/sam_trosow.html)
Lisa Macklem has a JD with a concentration in Intellectual Property and Information Technology, an LLM in Entertainment and Media Law, an MA in Media Studies and is currently a PhD candidate in Law whose research focuses on digital content delivery, IP, and the Entertainment Industry. As a creator and educator, she focuses on issues of access, copyright, and technology. Lisa has appeared on both Indian and Canadian tv, and on podcasts discussing law and popular culture. Her most recent publications have appeared in The Conversation on Canada’s copyright extension’s effect on the Public Domain, the unsanctioned use of music in political campaigns, and whether rap lyrics are libelous. In the past year, Lisa was interviewed about Artificial Intelligence and the Kendrick Lamar/Drake Rap feud on radio, and about the Online News Act on CTV National News. She is a frequent guest speaker on Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law at international events and conferences in the US, Asia, and the EU. Lisa is the co-editor of two books on the television show Supernatural with Dominick Grace. "Fair Dealing, Online Teaching and Technological Neutrality: Lessons From the COVID-19 Crisis,” cowritten with Samuel Trosow is in the Intellectual Property Journal Vol. 32, Iss. 3 (Sept 2020) and was cited in the recent Supreme Canada of Canada case York University v. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright), 2021 SCC 32.
You can connect with Lisa on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisamacklem/; on The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/profiles/lisa-macklem-1006021; and on SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2234367.
View Lisa's work as it appears in the Inspiring Minds Digital Collection: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/inspiringminds/662/.