The Predictable Decline of Fair Dealing? On Dialogue and Duelling Rights
The Predictable Decline of Fair Dealing? On Dialogue and Duelling Rights
CREATe Spring Public Lecture
Date: Wednesday 21 March 2018
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Venue: Humanities Lecture Theatre, Main Building,
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Speaker: Dr Carys Craig
Website: www.create.ac.uk
In Canada, which inherited its fair dealing provisions from the United Kingdom, the Supreme Court has defined fair dealing as a “user right” essential to striking copyright’s “balance” between authors and the public interest. It is widely thought that a user rights-based approach to fair dealing—or its US counterpart, fair use—is likely to lead to a greater ambit for the defence, and a more limited scope for copyright owners to preclude publicly beneficial downstream uses of their work. The judicial and statutory evolution of fair dealing in Canada seemed to support this assumption—until recently.
Carys Craig is Associate Dean (Research & Institutional Relations), and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto. She is the Academic Director of the Osgoode Professional Development LLM Program in Intellectual Property Law. Dr. Craig holds a First Class Honours Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, a Master of Laws (LLM) from Queen’s University in Kingston, and a Doctorate in Law (SJD) from the University of Toronto, where she was a graduate fellow of Ontario’s Centre for Innovation Law and Policy.