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Welcoming remarks and Panel 1 (Digital Rights Contracts)

Panel 2 (The Thawing of Libel Chill)

Panel 3 (The Role of Internet Giants in Totalitarian States)

Panel 4 (Legal Recourse for the Torture, Kidnapping, and Murder of Journalists)

AGENDA

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 (9:00am – 1:00pm)

Schulich School of Business (Room W132)

9:15-9:30         Welcoming remarks  

PART 1: LIVELIHOOD

9:30-10:15       Panel 1: Digital Rights Contracts

The panelists will discuss freelance authors and digital rights contracts, copyright class actions, labour relations mechanisms, and Status of the Artist legislation.

Panelists:
Kirk M. Baert, Partner, Koskie Minsky LLP
Sandy Crawley, Executive Director, Professional Writers Association of Canada
Wendy Matheson, Partner, Torys LLP

10:15-11:00     Panel 2: The Thawing of Libel Chill

The panelists will discuss libel chill, the “responsible communication” test, “libel tourism”, and their own experiences with defamation law.

Panelists:
Elaine Dewar, Author and Journalist
Heather Robertson, Author and Journalist
Paul B. Schabas, Partner, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

PART 2: LIFE

11:00-11:45     Panel 3: The Role of Internet Giants in Totalitarian States

The panelists will discuss online censorship, the cyberspace arms race, government surveillance of citizens, and corporate social responsibility.

Panelists:
Ronald J. Deibert, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.
Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Professor of Criminology and Canada Research Chair in Surveillance and the Social Construction of Risk, Université Laval.

11:45-12:30     Panel 4: Legal Recourse for the Torture, Kidnapping, and Murder of Journalists

The panelists will discuss legal recourse for the torture, kidnapping and murder of journalists, and the doctrine of state immunity.

Panelists:
Jayne Stoyles, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for International Justice and Ashoka Canada Fellow
John A. Terry, Partner, Torys LLP