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Title	CIPP Seminar in collaboration with Lallemand Inc. - Prof. Marc André Gagnon - IP and the Canadian pharmaceutical sector; From innovation economy to corporate welfare
Date	Tuesday, 12 February, 2013
Time	12:30 - 14:00
Who	Everyone is welcome. Please confirm participation with Mr. Francis Lord at francis.lord@mail.mcgill.ca. Quebec Bar accreditation is pending.
Where	Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street (Room 202) New Chancellor Day Hall
Description	Abstract: The Canadian brand-name pharmaceutical sector is an important part of the Canadian knowledge-based economy. Federal and Provincial governments have provided many incentives to attract pharmaceutical investment in Canada (favorable IP regime, tax credits, subsidies, high prices). Nevertheless, the sector has significantly declined in the last 10 years, and brand-name pharmaceutical companies are now requiring more favorable regulations in order to maintain their investment level in Canada. For example, they lobbied intensely for the extension of market exclusivity and patent rights for brand-name drugs through the ratification of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Europe. Is Canada and Quebec doing enough to attract pharmaceutical investment? What are the costs and the benefits of the current policies supporting the sector? Is it possible that current public financial subsidies are in fact costing more than the benefits we receive from the sector? Are we really building an innovation economy or are we simply providing massive corporate welfare without any proportional returns? The presentation will describe the costs of current public financial subsidies offered to the Canadian pharmaceutical sector, as compared to the benefits this sector provides to the Canadian Economy. The presentation will then look at current transformation of the innovation policy for this sector, including the withdrawal of the 15 years rule in Quebec and potential extension of market exclusivity through CETA. What could be rational reforms for the Canadian Pharmaceutical sector? Bio: Marc-André Gagnon is Assistant Professor with the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. He is a Research Fellow with the Pharmaceutical Policy Research Collaboration and with the Centre d’Études sur l’Intégration et la Mondialisation. His current research focuses on innovation policy in the pharmaceutical sector, institutional corruption in medical research and comparative drug insurance regimes. He holds a PhD in Political Science from York University and a Masters of Advanced Studies in Economics from Université Paris-1 Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/St-Cloud.

Title	IP Week
Date	Monday, 11 February, 2013 - Friday, 15 February, 2013
Time	00:00
Who	Everyone is welcome. Some activities require registration.
Where	Faculty of Law, McGill University
Description	Again this year, Intellectual Property will be shining! The Faculty will host a number of activities over the week to keep you up to date about IP. Please join us. IP Week is organized by the Center of Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP) of McGill University (http://cipp.mcgill.ca/). On the program this year: Meet with Practitioners During the first half of the week, practitioners from large Montreal firms will come share their passion and experience practicing law in their respective realms of expertise in IP. CIPP seminars 2012-2013, in collaboration with Lallemand Inc. This year, the CIPP has hosted international IP experts for an engaging crowd faculty members, students, and professionals. Our last seminar for this academic year features Prof. Marc-André Gagnon (Carleton University). Field trip Prof. Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse and the Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Policy Club (IPITPOL) invites you to join them to audit the proceedings of the well-publicized Cinar Corporation v. Michael Robinson case at the Supreme Court. IP scholars live & special seminar With the adoption of the controversial C-11 bill, and the publication of no less than five judgements from the Supreme Court, Canadian copyright law had a busy 2012. IP week provides the opportunity to reflect on CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES Monday, 11 February 2013 Meet with Practitioners (Norton Rose) (16:00 – 18:00, 6th floor NCDH) Me Madeleine Lamothe-Samson Me Xavier Beauchamps-Tremblay Me Nikita Stepin Cocktail: Perrier citron & rosé pamplemousse “Copyright, the SCC Pentology and C-11” seminar (17:30 – 20:30) Presented by Prof. David Lametti, and Prof. Sandy Pearlman Students only. Registration through Minerva. Places are limited. Tuesday, 12 February 2012 CIPP seminar (12:30 – 14:00, Room 202 NCDH) Prof. Marc-André Gagnon — IP and the Canadian Pharmaceutical Sector: From Innovation Economy to Corporate Welfare Field trip Départ à Ottawa, cocktail “Copyright, the SCC Pentology and C-11” seminar (17:30 – 20:30) Presented by Prof. David Lametti, and Prof. Sandy Pearlman Students only. Registration through Minerva. Places are limited. Wednesday, 13 February 2013 Field trip Audition de la cause Cinar Corporation v. Robinson “Copyright, the SCC Pentology and C-11” seminar (17:30 – 20:30) Presented by Prof. David Lametti, and Prof. Sandy Pearlman Students only. Registration through Minerva. Places are limited. Thursday, 14 February 2013 Meet with Practitioners (McMillan) (16:00 – 18:00, 6th floor NCDH) Me Elisa Henry Cocktail: Perrier citron & rosé pamplemousse “Copyright, the SCC Pentology and C-11” seminar (17:30 – 20:30) Presented by Prof. David Lametti, Prof. Sandy Pearlman, and Prof. Ariel Katz Students only. Registration through Minerva. Places are limited. Friday, 15 February 2013 ‘IP Scholars Live’: Copyright and Fair Dealing in Education after the Access Copyright Case and C-11 (12:30 – 14:30, room 312 NCDH) Prof. Ariel Katz (University of Toronto), Me Hélène Messier (Copibec), M. Oliver Charbonneau (Concordia University), and other participants

Title	CIPP Seminar in collaboration with Lallemand Inc., and the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law - Dr. Elena Cooper - Copyright as a Publicity Right? Stories from the UK in the Nineteenth Century
Date	Friday, 25 January, 2013
Time	12:30 - 14:00
Who	Everyone welcome. Please confirm participation with Mr. Francis Lord at francis.lord@mail.mcgill.ca. Quebec Bar accreditation is pending.
Where	Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street (Room 202) New Chancellor Day Hall
Description	It is commonly assumed that legal protection for aspects of personality has emerged in the UK only in recent times, in contrast to the experience in other jurisdictions (e.g. USA, France and Germany) where protection developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This presentation seeks to readdress this narrative, by uncovering the early history of UK photographic copyright following the passage of the Fine Arts Copyright Act 1862 (the first UK copyright statute expressly to protect photographs). Drawing on original archival research, the paper identifies the ways in which photographic copyright operated as a nineteenth century law protecting the commercial value of celebrity likeness, shaped by interests which in other jurisdictions during the twentieth century, would be protected by separate regimes of publicity rights. The presentation closes with conclusions about what this means for both the way we think about copyright history and the legal protection of personality in the UK today. BIO: Elena Cooper is Orton Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and a Member of Cambridge University's Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law. She is also currently a researcher at the Faculty of Law on the "Of Authorship and Originality" project funded by Humanities in the European Research Area. After graduating in 1999 with a law degree from the London School of Economics and master's degree in Intellectual Property Law from King's College London, Elena worked for a City of London law firm for close to five years, specialising in Intellectual Property litigation. Following this, in 2006, she moved to the University of Cambridge, where she completed a PhD on the relationship between art and law in the history of photographic copyright 1850-1911, under the supervision of Professor Lionel Bently. Her PhD thesis was awarded the University's prestigious Yorke Prize (for dissertations of exceptional quality which make a substantial contribution to legal knowledge). She has been a Fellow at Trinity Hall since 2009.

Title	CIPP Seminars 2012-2013, in collaboration with Lallemand Inc. - S. Serge Shahinian, PhD. - The evolution of patenting in the life sciences: Where have we come from and where are we going?
Date	Monday, 14 January, 2013
Time	13:00 - 14:30
Who	Everyone welcome. Please confirm participation with Mr. Francis Lord at francis.lord@mail.mcgill.ca. Quebec Bar accreditation is pending.
Where	Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street (Room 316) New Chancellor Day Hall
Description	Thomas Jefferson, when drafting the definition of a patentable “invention” in 1793 (which persists today in slightly modified form), was likely unaware that someday inventors would be seeking patent protection for genes and proteins, therapeutic and diagnostic applications, and living material such as genetically-modified cells, plants and animals. It is for this reason that the interpretation of what constitutes patentable subject matter is under constant evolution as new technologies are developed in the life sciences. Examples shall be discussed of how the courts have interpreted such issues up to present day, in an effort to assess trends and the future of patenting in the life sciences. Serge Shahinian is a Patent Agent and Partner with the intellectual property firm Goudreau Gage Dubuc. He has been practicing in the intellectual property field since 2000, following prior doctoral and post-doctoral training in biochemistry and biology. His practice covers a wide range of technologies in the life sciences, including biotechnology, and pharmaceutical and chemical technologies. His practice includes the procurement of patent rights in domestic and foreign jurisdictions, as well as opinions and counseling in patentability, validity and infringement matters.

Title	INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS: NORTH-AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES Fourth conference from the "Competition and Innovation" cycle of McGill's Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP) - in collaboration with the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA) and Université de Montréal's Centre de recherche de droit public (CRDP)
Date	Thursday, 15 November, 2012
Time	13:00 - 18:15
Who	CIPP conference – accreditation for the afternoon – $150.00; free for students and faculty.
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Where	Westin Hotel. 270 St Antoine West, Montreal (Qc), H2Y 0A3
Description	This year’s topic is the interplay between distribution and intellectual property law. The latter plays an important role in transactions for goods and international trade agreements, and emerges as a difficult topic in Canada-Europe trade negotiations. Indeed, intellectual property permeates many transactions, and has to interact, sometimes with difficulty, with conventional property and other legal rules governing distribution. For some, intellectual property is a too onerous charge for the international trade of goods, while for others it is a powerful tool to organize and control distribution networks. Recently, both Canadian and US highest courts had to deal with a bellicose intellectual property. In two similar cases, one concerning the importation of candy bars (Kraft Canada), the other of watches (Omega), the issue was the use of copyright law to exclude a non-affiliated retailer from the national distribution network. Surprisingly, the courts have failed to rally the majority and have revived the debate on the role of intellectual property in cases involving the distribution of goods. In Europe, the European Court of Justice carries on its work on accommodating intellectual property rights within the priorities of the European market. It recently expressed itself on the distribution of licenses for use on a secondary market (UsedSoft) and on the territoriality of rights concerning the diffusion of sporting events (Premier League). Such decisions can hardly be ignored and are full of insights to anticipate mutations coming to our legal system and practices. The objective of this 4th seminar is to expose research and developments on the role and functions of intellectual property rights in the distribution of goods. Traditional issues related to national and international exhaustion regarding tangible and intangible goods will be addressed, as will be the less-known impacts of intellectual property rights on technology transfer mechanisms, that is the distribution of knowledge. The general report will be presented by Professor Ysolde Gendreau, Université de Montréal. The CIPP event takes place within the two days AIJA conference on « Commerce global, stratégies juridiques locales – Global Distribution and Local Legal Strategies » Full program and fees, AIJA/CIPP: http://www.aija.org/uploads/events/11_Montreal_program_web.pdf Registration is mandatory (registration form at http://www.aija.org/uploads/events/Pages%20de%2008_Montreal_program.pdf), RSVP Sharon Webb, CIPP, sharon.webb@mcgill.ca.

Title	CIPP Seminars 2012-2013 in collaboration with Lallemand - Prof. Brett Frischmann - Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
Date	Friday, 2 November, 2012
Time	12:30 - 14:00
Who	Everyone welcome. Please confirm participation with Mr. Francis Lord at francis.lord@mail.mcgill.ca. Quebec Bar accreditation is pending
Where	Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street (Room 202) New Chancellor Day Hall
Description	Brett Frischmann Professor of Law at the Cardozo Law School (New York). Prof. Frischmann’s expertise is in intellectual property and internet law. His presentation will focus on the topic of his newest book, Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources, which examines the relationships between infrastructural resources, property rights, commons and spillovers. From Amazon.com: Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources devotes much needed attention to understanding how society benefits from infrastructure resources and how management decisions affect a wide variety of interests. The book links infrastructure, a particular set of resources defined in terms of the manner in which they create value, with commons, a resource management principle by which a resource is shared within a community. The infrastructure commons ideas have broad implications for scholarship and public policy across many fields ranging from traditional infrastructure like roads to environmental economics to intellectual property to Internet policy. Economics has become the methodology of choice for many scholars and policymakers in these areas. The book offers a rigorous economic challenge to the prevailing wisdom, which focuses primarily on problems associated with ensuring adequate supply. The author explores a set of questions that, once asked, seem obvious: what drives the demand side of the equation, and how should demand-side drivers affect public policy? Demand for infrastructure resources involves a range of important considerations that bear on the optimal design of a regime for infrastructure management. The book identifies resource valuation and attendant management problems that recur across many different fields and many different resource types, and it develops a functional economic approach to understanding and analyzing these problems and potential solutions.

Title	CIPP Seminars 2012-2013 – Professor Matt Stahl – Property in the Job or Property in the Work? The Hollywood Talents Guilds, Technological Displacement, and the Development of the Re-Use Right
Date	Monday, 29 October, 2012
Time	13:00 - 14:30
Who	Everyone welcome. Please confirm participation with Mr. Francis Lord at francis.lord@mail.mcgill.ca. Quebec Bar accreditation is pending
Where	Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street (Room 316) New Chancellor Day Hall
Description	In the 1940s, struggling to resist their technological displacement by recording and network broadcast technologies, members of two American talent guilds hit upon a new tactic to preserve security and bargaining power. First the American Federation of Radio Artists (through aggressive bargaining) then the American Federation of Musicians (through pugilistic boycotts) compelled their employers to pay additional fees for the reuse of recordings of their performances. These payments were demanded as a means to ameliorate the effects of the circulation of recordings on the markets for the performers’ labour. However, in the ensuing decade, as additional guilds sought to establish similar “reuse” rights (also known as “residual rights”), the meaning of this practice changed from a remedy for the loss of employment to a royalty-like sharing of profits between employers and quasi-authorial creative workers. This individualistic understanding is enshrined today, and reuse rights remain the centerpiece of collective bargaining struggles in Hollywood. The ongoing historical and theoretical research represented by this presentation is intended to result in an account of the development and conceptual transformation of this unusual genre of what Catherine Fisk calls “private intellectual property rights,” and in an analysis that will help explain creative cultural labour’s peculiarities and (it is to be hoped) invigorate the efforts of media workers to cultivate solidarity and enhance and protect their bargaining power. Matt Stahl is an Assistant Professor of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, where he is also a member of the Digital Labour Research Group; his PhD in Communication was awarded by the University of California, San Diego in 2006. Stahl's research focuses on creative labour in the cultural industries. His forthcoming monograph, Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work (Duke University Press, 2013) examines the representation and regulation of recording artists' creative labour and property. Coffee, cookies, and fruits will be served.

Title	CIPP Seminars 2012-2013 in collaboration with Lallemand - Professor Michael J. Madison - The Future of Things: The Copyright Work as Legal Object
Date	Friday, 5 October, 2012
Time	12:30 - 14:00
Who	Free event, open to all. Please RSVP to Mr. Francis Lord (francis.lord@mail.mcgill.ca). Quebec Bar accreditation for this activity is pending
Where	Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street (Room 202) New Chancellor Day Hall
Description	This presentation explores the meanings and functions of the objects of intellectual property: the work of authorship (or copyright work) in copyright, the invention in patent, and the mark and the sign in trademark. It is usually argued that the central challenge in understanding the copyright work is to develop a sensible method for appreciating its boundaries, in the sense of its metaphorical "metes and bounds." The boundaries might be established by deferring to the intention of the author, or by constructing a sense of the work with reference to reader, viewer, or listener experience, or perhaps by mediating between those two poles. The presentation re-considers the copyright work as a fundamental object of copyright. It rejects the premise that the purpose of interpreting the work is to properly understand its metes and bounds, either as a concept or as a token. The de-materialization of the work over the last century made that project deeply problematic from the beginning of modern copyright, and digital technology has made it even more difficult. I argue instead that the idea of the work plays a central role in constructing expressive culture itself. Michael J. Madison is a Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Innovation Practice Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He specializes in the law, policy, and theory of intellectual property. His scholarship on intellectual property law, property theory, and commons has appeared in law reviews at Cornell University, Fordham University, Boston College, the University of Notre Dame, the College of William & Mary, and Case Western Reserve University, among others, and he is the co-author of a casebook on intellectual property law published by Aspen Publishers, now in its third edition. Professor Madison has been a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh since 1998. A complete biography and list of publications can be found at http://madisonian.net/home.

Title	CIPP Seminars 2012-2013 in collaboration with Lallemand Inc. – Professor Peter Yu – Copyright as an Engine of Censorship
Date	Monday, 1 October, 2012
Time	13:00 - 14:30
Who	Everyone welcome. Please confirm participation with Mr. Francis Lord at francis.lord@mail.mcgill.ca. Quebec Bar accreditation is pending.
Where	Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street (Room 316) New Chancellor Day Hall
Description	Commentators have widely discussed the tension between copyright and free speech. One issue that has yet to be fully explored concerns the tension and conflict between copyright and free speech in countries that heavily restrict information flows or that substantially control cultural industries. Focusing on countries with heavy information control, this seminar will examine the need for greater copyright freedom to compensate for the lack of freedom of expression. It will further articulate how, in some countries, “creative reuse” could be transformed into “liberative reuse.” Prof. Yu’s presentation will also highlight the free speech challenges in an environment where enforcement measures are increasingly strengthened and where criminal liability is introduced to address massive copyright infringement on the Internet. It concludes with some suggestions on how to harness the copyright system to promote free speech values and Internet freedom. Biography: Peter K. Yu holds the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law and is the founding director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University Law School. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Yu is a leading expert in international intellectual property and communications law. He also writes and lectures extensively on international trade, international and comparative law, and the transition of the legal systems in China and Hong Kong. A prolific scholar and an award-winning teacher, he is the author or editor of five books and more than 100 law review articles and book chapters. Professor Yu has spoken at events organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Telecommunication Union, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Chinese, U.S. and EU governments and at leading research institutions from around the world. His publications have appeared in Chinese and English and been translated into Arabic, French, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese. They are available on his website at www.peteryu.com. Coffee, cookies, and fruits will be served.

Title	CIPP Seminar Series 2011-2012 - Speaker: Professor Jason Mazzone - "Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law"
Date	Thursday, 26 January, 2012
Time	16:30 - 18:00
Who	everyone welcome. Quebec Bar Accreditation is pending.
Where	Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street (Room 16) Old Chancellor Day Hall
Description	Description: From phony copyright notices attached to Shakespeare's plays to lawsuits designed to prevent people from poking fun at Barbie, from controversies over digital sampling in hip-hop to Major League Baseball's ubiquitous restriction on sharing any ‘accounts and descriptions of this game,’ overreaching claims of intellectual property rights are everywhere. Jason Mazzone will discuss overreaching, show its economic and creative costs, and explain how to stop it. Biography: Jason Mazzone is the Gerald Baylin Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. He teaches Intellectual Property Law, Constitutional Law, and Legal History. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University, a master’s degree from Stanford University, and a master’s and doctorate from Yale University. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and he serves on the Board of Trustees of the Copyright Society of the USA. Before entering academia, he was a law clerk to two federal judges and he practiced intellectual property law in New York City. He blogs at Balkinization. Suggested reading and links: Jason Mazzone, Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law (Stanford University Press, 2011) Jason Mazzone, The Privatization of Copyright Lawmaking, TorrentFreak, Nov. 12, 2011, http://torrentfreak.com/the-privatization-of-copyright-lawmaking-111112/ www.copyfraud.com

Title	CIPP Seminars Series 2011-2012 - Speaker: Professor David Vaver "3500 Footnotes Later: Is it All Patently Obvious Now?"
Date	Wednesday, 16 November, 2011
Time	17:30 - 18:30
Who	Open to Public & Students
Where	Faculty of Law, McGill University, 3644 Peel Street, Room 16
Description	Professor David Vaver from Osgoode Hall Law School will be speaking to us on the topic of "3500 Footnotes Later: Is It All Patently Obvious Now?", reflecting on what still needs to be done in the field drawing from his experiences writing his new book on intellectual property law. The talk will be followed by a light cocktail offered by the CIPP (Common Room - 18 h 30 - 19 h 30). All are welcome! Well known as the doyen of IP law in Canada, Professor Vaver developed the first Canadian IP course in the 70’s and has been deeply involved in legislative reform of Canadian and UK IP legislation. An Emeritus Fellow of St. Peter’s College at Oxford and former Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, his two texts – Intellectual Property Law (Irwin, 2011) and Copyright Law (Irwin, 2000) - are regarded as foundational treatises.

Title	CIPP Seminars Series 2011-2012 - Professor David Vaver from Osgoode Hall Law School - Title of his talk: "3500 Footnotes Later: Is it All Patently Obvious Now?"
Date	Wednesday, 16 November, 2011
Time	17:30 - 18:30
Who	Open to all
Where	Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street, Room 16 followed by a light cocktail offered by the CIPP (Common Room - 18 h 30 - 19 h 30)
Description	Well known as the doyen of IP law in Canada, Professor Vaver developed the first Canadian IP course in the 70’s and has been deeply involved in legislative reform of Canadian and UK IP legislation. An Emeritus Fellow of St. Peter’s College at Oxford and former Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, his two texts – Intellectual Property Law (Irwin, 2011) and Copyright Law (Irwin, 2000) - are regarded as foundational treatises.

Title	Intellectual Property Week - September 12-16, 2011
Date	Monday, 12 September, 2011 - Friday, 16 September, 2011
Time	00:00
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Where	Faculty of Law, McGill University
Description	This year, Intellectual Property will be out in public showing off! The Faculty of Law will host a number of activities over the week articulated under the vast theme of immaterial law in intellectual property (IP). Please join us. IP Week is organized by the Center of Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP) of McGill University On the program this year: meetings with practitioners, take-away exhibits, debates between academics, and a guest of honour! Meet Practitioners During the first half of the week, practitioners from large Montreal firms will come share their passion and experience practicing law in their respective realms of expertise in IP. We'll be hearing about trademarks over famous whiskeys and chocolates, property in virtual worlds, infringing Santa Clauses and patents over optical equipment. Participate in IP debates Come participate in academic debates featuring well-known thinkers in IP from Canada, the UK and the USA during three engaging and provocative seminars. Clothesline Exhibits There will be intellectual property hanging on clotheslines in the Atrium during the week. Early in the week, the works of Albert Camus, a French author who died in 1960, will be on display. His works have recently rolled into the public domain in Canada but not in France. Come grab your copy! Next, the electro-psychedelic stylings of Misteur Valaire, a Quebec band that offers its work online for a voluntary donation, will be on display in the Atrium. CDs will be available to students for an amount of their choosing. How much will you pay for culture? Should we pay to maintain the public domain as was proposed by Victor Hugo? Guest of Honour Finally, on September 15, Guillaume Déziel, manager of Misteur Valaire, will be at the Faculty. He will be bringing a custom mixtape of Misteur Valaire material for McGill students, as well as giving a presentation on his innovative business model for the band. Don't miss this! Go to the above mentioned Downloaded file for the IP Week's Programme.

Title	REGISTER TODAY - Barreau du Québec (24 hours of accredited continuing education). Fifth Transatlantic Intellectual Property Summer Academy (TIPSA) - hosted by the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy, Faculty of Law, McGill University and co-organized with the University of Western Ontario. Attention Quebec Bar Members. 10 spaces have been reserved for Quebec Bar Members. Quebec Bar Accreditation: 24 hours of accredited continuing education. Registration fee: $2,500 Cdn. For further information visit TIPSA website: http://www.law.uwo.ca/TIPSA/index.html
Date	Monday, 13 June, 2011 - Friday, 17 June, 2011
Time	00:00
Who	Attention Quebec Bar Members - 10 spaces have been reserved for Quebec Bar Members. For additional information & registration please go to: http://www.law.uwo.ca/TIPSA/index.html
Where	Faculty of Law, McGill University
Description	Attention Quebec Bar Members - 10 spaces have been reserved for Quebec Bar Members Quebec Bar - Accredited number of hours of continuing education: 24 hours Registration fee: $2,500 Cdn From June 13th to 17th, the CIPP will host the Fifth Transatlantic Intellectual Property Summer Academy (TIPSA), organized with the University of Western Ontario. This intensive course has traditionally offered an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to IP, with regard to both scientific research and digital environment, and international aspects of IP enforcement. This year’s edition is loosely focused on “IP and the Arts”. The aim of the academy is to enhance understanding of various IP issues through a decidedly international perspective and flavour. Attention is paid to the legal, economic and socio-political dimensions of IP, with particular consideration of the connections between IP and technology, the arts, culture and politics. TIPSA is now a well-established entity, given the five-years of experience gained. If previous editions is a guide, the interest shown by participating students and experts creates a stimulating and pleasant learning atmosphere among participants. For further information visit TIPSA website: http://www.law.uwo.ca/TIPSA/index.html

Title	What performance? From economic performance to corporate citizenship: the changing nature of corporations and its impact on the role of directors and officers in Europe and North America
Date	Thursday, 21 April, 2011
Time	13:30 - 17:30
Who	Registration is Mandatory for everyone (complete registration form below) - Admission fee: $60 for Non-Academic & Non-Students & Free for Academic Community & Students
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Where	McGill University, Faculty of Law, Stephen A. Scott Room (Room 16), 3644 Peel Street
Description	Third edition of the Competition and Innovation Colloquium Series Organised by McGill University’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Université de Montréal’s Centre de recherche en droit public ** Quebec Bar accreditation - 4 hours ** AGENDA 13:30-13:40 OPENING REMARKS - Dean Daniel JUTRAS, McGill University - Pierre-Emmanuel MOYSE, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy, McGill University 13:40 - 14:05: Keynote - The Honorable Mary K. BUSH Good governance and corporate citizenship are Fundamental to Maximizing Shareholder Value PANEL 1 - THE CHANGING NATURE OF CORPORATIONS… 14:05 - 14:25 Jean-François GAUDREAULT-DESBIENS Comparer l’efficacité des systèmes juridiques : résister aux stéréotypes réducteurs mais prendre acte de la résilience des « canevas de raisonnement » 14:25 - 14:45 Richard JANDA Transforming the corporation 14:45 – 15:05 Jean-François GASCON Répondre aux attentes : La nécessaire redéfinition du rôle de la multinationale dans les pays en voie de développement 15:05-15:20 Barnali CHOUDHURY Incentivizing the Pursuit of the Common Good: Incorporating Environmental and Social Goals into Executive Compensation Plans 15:20 – 15:40 Questions & Answers 15:40 - 15:55 BREAK PANEL 2 - …AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ROLE OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA 15:55 – 16:15 Pierre-Emmanuel MOYSE Pouvoir et gouvernance : une théorie du devoir en matière corporative / Power and Governance: A Theory of Duty in Corporate Matters 16:15 - 16:35 Michel ALBOUY La rémunération des dirigeants ne concerne pas que les actionnaires : un regard français et européen 16h35 - 16:55 Stéphane ROUSSEAU La rémunération excessive des dirigeants: quel rôle pour la responsabilité des administrateurs? 16:55-17:30 Questions & Answers BACKGROUND Much has been written and said about salaries and bonuses received by executives. No doubt the current crisis stigmatizes a number of practices designed to reward performance and to align compensation with the mighty objective of profit maximization for corporations: they give way to excess. The demise of Enron and of Lehman Brothers, the revelations that followed, the fraudulent use of accounting mechanisms, the dubious role of lawyers and advisers - all place the issue of compensation at the very heart of a necessary review of corporate governance. Executives and professional advisers – including lawyers - are under surveillance and the law is one instrument through which the state may take action. Modern compensation schemes have long reflected the prevailing legal school of thought on the goal and nature of the corporation, one grounded in legal, economic and political literature derived from the Chicago School. Within this tradition, corporate governance is examined through the lens of cost-efficiency mechanisms, in isolation or to the exclusion of other parameters. This view is still predominant today. Many scholars in law and economics still continue to ignore studies of corporate governance that do not deal with economic performance (e.g. social and ethical approaches of director remuneration). Once the basic premise of profit maximization is challenged, the prevalent justification for compensation becomes questionable. The exercise cannot consist only of aligning the company’s performance with remuneration. Even if we assume this apportionment method to be desirable, it does not accurately reflect the practice of compensation and bonuses. Recent legal cases and management literature clearly demonstrate the frequent disconnect between senior executive compensation and a company’s financial performance. This conference will explore the theoretical and practical justifications underlying executive compensation mechanisms in light of broader questions surrounding the role of corporations in society and corporate governance. Questions of corporate liability combined with that of its directors and professional advisors has revived the late 19th to mid-20th century debate surrounding the status of corporations, not only as subjects of rights but of obligations as well. TALKS (titles & abstracts) Michel ALBOUY La rémunération des dirigeants ne concerne pas que les actionnaires : un regard français et européen La rémunération des dirigeants des grandes entreprises cotées, notamment en Europe, est devenue une question sociétale qui dépasse le seul cadre de l’assemblée générale des actionnaires. La question aujourd’hui n’est plus de savoir si les montants attribués aux dirigeants des entreprises peuvent se justifier par leurs performances financières (et à quel horizon ?) ou encore si leur niveau constitue un détournement de valeur pour leurs actionnaires (vision purement actionnariale). Avec l’explosion de ces rémunérations aux États-Unis, mais également en Europe depuis les années 2000, la question est devenue sociétale dans la mesure où ces montants faramineux pour les citoyens et leurs modes de paiements (via notamment les stock-options et les retraites « chapeaux ») sont de nature à rompre le lien social de l‘entreprise avec ses parties-prenantes (stakeholders) et à promouvoir des comportements opportunistes de la part des dirigeants de sociétés ; comportements allant à éventuellement à l’encontre des intérêts de la personnalité morale de l’entreprise et même des actionnaires. Au préalable il convient de rappeler au vu des nombreuses études empiriques réalisées que les niveaux de rémunérations des dirigeants n’ont pas grand chose à voir avec leurs performances financières pour l’actionnaire. Ce résultat est en cohérence avec la théorie de l’agence et l’opportunisme des dirigeants enracinés. Exit donc la justification économique pour l’actionnaire de ces comportements. En France, la question des rémunérations des dirigeants fait l’objet d’un débat public et avec la crise économique actuelle la pression est telle que des institutions comme l’Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF : French Security Exchange Commission) ont fait un certain nombre de recommandations. Pour le moment, ces recommandations et l’existence de la loi NRE (Nouvelles Réglementations Économiques) n’ont pas changé grand-chose en France. Certains politiques vont même jusqu’à imaginer un plafonnement de ces rémunérations. Utopie ou réalisme pour sauver un système qui perd ses repères ? Barnali CHOUDHURY Incentivizing the Pursuit of the Common Good: Incorporating Environmental and Social Goals into Executive Compensation Plans Agency theory postulates that agency costs can be reduced by establishing incentives that will encourage agents to act in the interests of their principles. Executives, long described as agents of shareholders, are accordingly given compensation packages that tie bonuses and options to financial criteria under the assumption that these types of incentives will encourage profit maximization, the sole interest of shareholders. Recent environmental disasters such as Deepwater Horizon, however, evidence that the interests of shareholders should not be focused solely on financial criteria. Failure to minimize environmental and social risks can be as financially devastating to a corporation as failing to pursue financially-motivated corporate strategies. Thus, under the current model of executive compensation, agency costs remain high. Recently, several corporations have begun to tie environmental and social goals (ESG) to executive compensation packages. This has led to corporate strategic decisions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase product energy efficiency, and to reduce the company’s carbon footprint. In addition to benefitting society at large, these decisions have also worked to minimize corporate risks, which in the long run benefits shareholders financially as well. Still, most executive compensation packages are calculated in terms of financial criteria. This is somewhat surprising given the growing interest of shareholders in demanding a reduction of agency costs, more colloquially known as “say on pay”. For it is only by incentivizing corporate executives to pursue the common good, that shareholders can enjoy a true reduction of agency costs. Jean-François GASCON Répondre aux attentes : La nécessaire redéfinition du rôle de la multinationale dans les pays en voie de développement La démonstration que les pays en voie de développement jouent aujourd’hui un rôle prépondérant dans la croissance mondiale n’est plus à faire. Cependant, une analyse plus approfondie du phénomène permet de constater non seulement une croissance économique accrue dans plusieurs régions du globe, mais également une progression extraordinaire au niveau des attentes sociétales des populations : mouvements sociaux de masse au Maghreb, explosion des conflits de travail en Chine, succès électoraux de la gauche politique en Amérique latine. Face à cette rapide évolution des environnements, l’entreprise multinationale se voit aujourd’hui forcée de s’adapter, d’innover en vue de répondre aux nouvelles attentes des populations et à un élargissement considérable des stakeholders. Le rendement, longtemps le seul facteur d’analyse, doit aujourd’hui cohabiter avec de nouvelles notions d’analyse, la licence sociale pour opérer, le développement durable, la responsabilité sociale corporative, la gestion des risques. Cette nécessité ne peut être abordée de façon purement volontaire, elle devient primordiale pour le succès des opérations et l’intégration de l’entreprise dans l’environnement. Jean-François GAUDREAULT-DESBIENS Comparer l’efficacité des systèmes juridiques : résister aux stéréotypes réducteurs mais prendre acte de la résilience des « canevas de raisonnement » Les présupposés de certaines grilles d’analyse « économistes » comparant la performance des traditions de common law et de droit civil en matière d’économie et de gouvernance laissent entrevoir l’influence de stéréotypes réducteurs de cette dernière tradition. En revanche, une étude plus approfondie des principaux cadres théoriques sollicitant le droit et la science économique révèle une réalité plus complexe quant à l’évaluation de la performance relative de ces traditions : en effet, le lien entre l’adoption d’une grille d’analyse économiste et la critique négative de la tradition romaniste est contingent plutôt que nécessaire. Mais résister aux stéréotypes réducteurs d’une tradition juridique ne permet pas pour autant d’occulter la résilience de « canevas de raisonnement » dans une tradition ou dans une autre, qui se sont sédimentés au fil des siècles, qui découlent notamment de conceptions différentes des rapports individu-société civile-État, privé-public, formel-informel ou de la normativité elle-même, et dont l’action, à la manière d’une doxa, se fait souvent souterraine. Sans être toujours déterminants – d’autres variables socioéconomiques contemporaines peuvent avoir une influence plus considérable -, ces canevas de raisonnement n’en expliquent pas moins certains patterns régulateurs archétypaux. Richard JANDA Transforming the corporation The fiduciary conception of the corporation is in the midst of significant transformation and is confronted with a growing legitimacy crisis. Corporations are not simply discrete economic agents but are now vectors of governance, in an economy operating increasingly outside planetary boundaries. Whereas corporations cannot be democratized, they can deepen and differentiate their fiduciary obligations. In particular this means an evolution in the ideas of corporate social responsibility and citizenship to make the corporation govern its resources and social impacts with a view to stabilizing and reducing consumption. Pierre-Emmanuel MOYSE Power and Governance: A Theory of Duty in Corporate Matters The notion of power in civil law has long been infused in the overarching concept of subjective rights. The notion of subjective right has historically attracted if not consumed minds and judicial constructions. The subjective right, it must be recalled, is understood in continental civil law theory as an individual prerogative in the legal subject against others, including the State; a selfish right to some – un droit égoiste - for it is awarded to the owner for his personal interest solely. The ownership right, sphere of autonomy, is often presented as the quintessential subjective right. Being absolute it suffers, in theory at least, no exception, no encroachment. The notion of power on the other hand, reflects a somewhat different reality. Underdeveloped in civil law and misunderstood by the exegesis scholars of the historical school, it is almost evanescent. The notion of power is a prerogative which is entrusted upon its holder in and for the interest of another person, an interest therefore at least partially separate from his. The basic distinction between right and power exposes the contrast between the doctrines of abuse of right and misuse of power (détournement de pouvoir). While the abuse of right theory has tried with varying success to discipline selfish rights by subjecting them to a social purpose, the theory of misuse of power catalyzes the legal relationship and directs it in the sense of the purpose for which power was conferred in the first place. Control of this misuse of power captures all of the ends which stray from the purposes of the exercise of that power. By definition, control of the misuse of power implies that the act was accomplished by the author in the objective limits of his powers. There is therefore no question of invoking their illegality per se. The usefulness of the misuse of power theory, that is not without resemblances with the notion of fiduciary obligations in common law, is of particular interest in situations where certain behaviors of administrators which, while remaining legal, are under scrutiny. The concept of misuse of power in private law therefore offers an interesting avenue to address issues of accountability in corporate law. Directors or administrative officers are vested with powers in the civilian sense and their actions may very well lead to excess. The misuse of power theory has indeed been used to protect minority shareholders against the arbitrariness of the majority of the board; it could just as well rescind the resolutions granting excessive compensation. According to fundamental principles of commercial law, the end goal of the corporation is the joint sharing of pecuniary profits or savings. It can thus be argued that any intentional breach of the collective objective represents a misuse of power. Stéphane ROUSSEAU La rémunération excessive des dirigeants: quel rôle pour la responsabilité des administrateurs? | Excessive executive compensation: what role for directors' liability? Les critiques de la rémunération des dirigeants sont bien connues. En revanche, l'encadrement de la rémunération des dirigeants pose des défis importants qui font en sorte qu'il n'est pas aisé d'endiguer les excès. Cette question continue de soulever les débats en matière de gouvernance d'entreprise. En principe, la détermination de la rémunération des dirigeants incombe au conseil d'administration. Il est donc tentant d'avoir recours au mécanisme de la responsabilité civile pour inciter les administrateurs à fixer une rémunération des dirigeants qui soit "dans l'intérêt de la société". Est-il opportun d'accroître la responsabilité des administrateurs en matière de rémunération des dirigeants pour mettre un terme aux excès? SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES Michel ALBOUY Michel Albouy is professor of finance at Pierre Mendès France University of Grenoble. As a recognized specialist in finance, he is also a member of the scientific board of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (French Security Exchange Commission). His work is mainly concerned with researching and teaching in Corporate Finance: Financial Statements Analysis, Investment and Financing Decisions, Dividend Policy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Valuation and Creating Value trough Corporate Restructuring, and Corporate Governance. He has published more than 100 articles in professionals and academic journals and 10 books. Professor Albouy is a member of the editorial board of the Revue Française de Gestion, and of Finance-Contrôle-Stratégie, two leading French reviews in management and finance. At Pierre Mendès France University he founded and directed the Center for Applied Research in Management Sciences (CERAG), a center linked with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He was Dean of the Business Administration Institute (IAE) of the University of Grenoble from 1992 to 1997. He holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers (Paris), a Master in Finance from Paris-Dauphine University and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Texas (Austin), and the Agrégation in Management Sciences. The Honorable Mary K. BUSH Mary K. Bush is a leading expert, advisor, and speaker on international finance, banking, and corporate governance. She has served three U.S. Presidents. Ms. Bush gained her reputation through developing cutting edge financial and business strategies that have helped transform markets throughout the world. Her achievements include: leading the creation of new methods of securities financings for private sector companies; developing new funding structures at the IMF and World Bank for Emerging Market countries that agreed to free-market, business friendly reforms; strengthening oversight systems for international lending institutions; and Chairing a Presidential Commission on reforming US foreign aid. The Secretary of the US Treasury, in 2007, appointed her to the US Treasury Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession to evaluate the future of that industry. Ms. Bush is highly regarded for her global and strategic perspective on business, government and international matters in her governance work on corporate boards. Since 1991, Ms. Bush has been President of Bush International, a firm that advises governments on strengthening banking systems and capital markets and on strategies to support free enterprise. The firm also advises corporate clients on financing and market development strategies. From 1994 to 1997, she also hosted “Markets and Technology,” a nationwide cable television program on global business and economic matters. She is a frequent speaker on business and financial issues and has periodically been a guest commentator on financial market matters on PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, CSPAN, Fox News Channel 8 and America’s Voice Network. In 2006, President Bush appointed her chairman of the HELP Commission. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bush served as Financial Advisor at the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority (the Control Board). In this position, she advised the Board and the DC Government on financing matters and investor relations issues. From 1989 to 1991, Ms. Bush was Managing Director (Chief Operating Officer) of the Federal Housing Finance Board - the oversight body for the nation’s twelve Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLB’s). Ms. Bush provided leadership on several challenges faced by the FHLB’s as the primary source of funding for the Savings & Loan industry. Her accomplishments included strengthening portfolio risk analysis and oversight, creating an affordable housing program, and developing a dividend policy to balance the FHLB’s stability with S & L cash needs. She also oversaw the monthly $1 billion capital market funding. Prior to the Federal Housing Finance Board, Ms. Bush was the senior executive (Vice President, International Finance) at Fannie Mae for international financial market matters. Among her successes were major new institutional investors (including Central Banks) in Asia and Europe for Fannie Mae securities and the first mutual fund of Fannie Mae mortgage-backed securities (a $500 million transaction). Ms. Bush was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate in 1982 and in 1984 as United States Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Board. She led the development of the Structural Adjustment Facility through which the IMF/World Bank lent several billion dollars to developing countries. During the 1980’s debt crisis, she led the reform of IMF accounting practices to incorporate GAAP in accounting for past due loans. In 1982 and 1983, Ms. Bush was Executive Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury Department. She worked with top management of the Treasury on sovereign debt problems and economic and banking issues. In the 1970’s, she was with New York City banks - Bankers Trust, Citibank and Chase Manhattan. Of note was the first private placement by a commercial bank for a Fortune 500 acquisition financing. Boards include Discover Financial Services, Marriott International, ManTech International and The Pioneer Family of Mutual Funds. Board committee service and/or Chairmanships: Audit, Finance, Compensation, Nominating and Governance and Pensions and Investments. Former Boards include United Airlines and MGIC. Ms. Bush also serves on the board of the Investment Company Institute, on the US Advisory Board of the Global Leadership Foundation and is a member of the Kennedy Center Community Advisory Board. She holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, from Fisk University. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama and resides in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Barnali CHOUDHURY Barnali Choudhury is an Assistant Professor at McGill University, Faculty of Law. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich, an LL.M. from Columbia University, an LL.B. from Queen's University, and a B.Comm. from McMaster University. She teaches and researches in the areas of corporate and international economic law and her publications can be found in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, and Northwestern's Journal of International Law and Business. Prior to joining academia, she practiced in the areas of corporate and international investment law. Jean-François GASCON Jean-François Gascon is Vice-President, Capacity Building for the SNC-Lavalin Group, one of the largest Engineering & Construction firm on the globe. He is considered a key international expert in the field of Project Sustainability, a growing field of Sustainable Development addressing the design and implementation of sustainable development strategies on infrastructure and industrial projects in developing countries. Over the last decade, Mr Gascon successfully designed, developed and implemented LRDITM programs (Local Resource Development Initiative), SNC-Lavalin’s best practice in Project Sustainability, on different mega-projects in mining, energy and water infrastructure in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He helps organizations like Barrick Gold, Inmet, Sumitomo, Kores, Sherritt International, the African Development Bank and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) on the implementation of sustainable strategies on projects across the globe. Previously, Mr Gascon served as a Senior Ministerial Advisor for the government of Canada at CIDA and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). In 2010, he received the ARISTA award “Leader without Borders” from the Jeune Chambre de Commerce de Montréal. Mr Gascon is a McGill Law alumnus. Jean-François GAUDREAULT-DESBIENS Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens is Associate Dean, Research, and Canada Research Chair in North American and Comparative Juridical and Cultural Identities at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal. He has also taught at the faculties of law of the University of Toronto and of McGill University, in addition to having been visiting Professor at different universities outside of Canada. His teaching and research interests are constitutional law (domestic and comparative), legal theory and epistemology, and the sociology of legal cultures. His most recent work focuses on the legal theory of federalism, on the legal treatment of religious claims, and on the relations between the civil law and common law traditions in a globalized economy. He has published several books and articles in French, English, Spanish and Catalan. A member of the Québec and Ontario Bars, he is the Canadian correspondent for the British journal Public Law. Pierre-Emmanuel MOYSE Having joined the McGill Faculty of Law in 2006 as a Wainwright Junior Fellow, Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse is an assistant professor specializing in property systems (intellectual property, civil law property), legal theory, competition and commercial law. Professor Moyse is also an active member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP), a researcher with the Regroupement droit et changements Université de Montréal-McGill University-Université Laval and collaborates with the Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue (Strategic Knowledge Cluster). He is also heading the Competition and Innovation conference series since its creation in 2008. Professor Moyse is a member of the Quebec Bar since 2000. Professor Moyse has published numerous articles in both Canadian and international publications and seats on the Editorial Board of the Cahiers de propriété intellectuelle. He was awarded several grants for his personal research and, notably, for his work on the abuse of right theory in intellectual property. Professor Moyse is presently working on a international collaborative project with the Centre d’études et de recherche en droit de l’immatériel (Paris XI) entitled “Terroir, Virtual Terroir and Intellectual Property”. Richard JANDA Professor Janda teaches business associations, administrative law, competition law, economic regulation, and air transport regulation at McGill Faculty of Law. He was Law Clerk to Justices Le Dain and Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada and is a past Director of the Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries at McGill. His main current research areas are the legal basis of domestic and global corporate social responsibility and the regulatory regimes governing domestic and global public goods. Apart from his academic contributions, has been involved in work for the WTO, ICAO, OECD, the World Bank, a number of Canadian public agencies as well as work in a number of developing countries. Stéphane ROUSSEAU Stéphane Rousseau holds the Chair in Business Law and International trade and is full professor at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal.. Professor Rousseau holds a Doctorate in Juridical Science from the University of Toronto and a master's degree in law from Université Laval. He is member of the Québec Bar. He specializes in corporate law, corporate governance, securities law and law and economics. He is coauthor of three recent books: (with Raymonde Crête), Droit des sociétés par actions, 2e éd. (Éditions Thémis, 2008); (with Ejan Mackaay), Analyse économique du droit, 2e éd. (Dalloz/Éditions Thémis, 2008) et (with Patrick Desalliers), Les devoirs des administrateurs lors d'une prise de contrôle - Étude comparative du droit du Delaware et du droit canadien (Éditions Thémis, 2007). He is the founder of the blog Gouvernance. He has given conferences in academic and professional settings in Canada as well as abroad in numerous countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, France, Unites States, and Tunisia). He was awarded the André-Morel teaching excellence prize in 2007.

Title	Crowdsourcing the Law, by David Gold
Date	Tuesday, 5 April, 2011
Time	13:00 - 14:30
Who	Open event
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Where	Room 312, New Chancellor Day Hall, Faculty of Law
Description	David Gold, Lawyer and founder of Spindle Law Hoted by Professor Pierre Emmanuel Moyse David Gold, a lawyer and founder of Spindle Law, a legal research site that organizes the law through mass collaboration, will speak and lead a discussion about approaches to, and the benefits and challenges of, crowdsourcing the law. What kinds of legal information can be profitably crowdsourced? What systems are needed to make it work? How should quality control measures be implemented to meet lawyers’ demand for reliable information? Why and under what conditions will lawyers contribute their knowledge? How should an in-house collaborative system, such as within a law firm, differ from one applied to public information on the open web? What does crowdsourcing the law mean for the legal profession and the future of lawyering?

Title	Roberto Caso, Associate Professor of Comparative Private Law at the University of Trento (Italy) "Plagiarism and Technological Evolution"
Date	Friday, 3 September, 2010
Time	12:30 - 14:00
Who	Open access - no registration required
Where	Room 202, 3644 Peel Street
Description	Roberto Caso is Associate Professor of Comparative Private Law at the University of Trento (Italy) - Faculty of Law - Department of Legal Sciences - LawTech Group. He teaches Private Law & Computer Science and Comparative Intellectual Property Law. Roberto Caso is the author of many books and articles about Intellectual Property, Privacy & Data Protection, Contract Law. Home Page: http://www.lawtech.jus.unitn.it/index.php/people/roberto-caso Publications: http://www.lawtech.jus.unitn.it/index.php/people/roberto-caso/publications

Title	Ysolde Gendreau (Université de Montréal), L'Internet démocratise-t-il le droit d'auteur? Réflexions sur la participation populaire. Formation créditée par le Barreau du Québec (1,50 heures).
Date	Friday, 26 March, 2010
Time	12:30 - 14:00
Who	Open access - no registration required
Where	room 202, 3644 Peel Street
Description	L'Internet permet à tout un chacun d'exprimer son opinion sur l'actualité et de la faire connaître directement à ceux qui sont à l'écoute de l'opinion publique. De plus en plus, d'ailleurs, les décideurs en matière de droit d'auteur invitent le public à participer à un tel exercice. Comment ce phénomène se manifeste-t-il en droit d'auteur canadien? Ysolde GENDREAU B.C.L., LL.B., LL.M. (McGill); docteur en droit (Université de Paris II). Professor at the Université de Montréal since 1991 where she teaches intellectual property law and competition law. Has also taught at McGill University, Université de Paris II, Université de Paris XII, Université de Nantes, Université de Strasbourg III, Université de Lyon 2, University of Victoria (summer programme in Victoria and Oxford), University of San Diego (summer programme in Florence), and Monash University. Member of the Bar of Quebec since 1985; member of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board from 1995 till 2000. President of ATRIP (Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property; over 200 IP academics worldwide) in 2003-2005; currently President of ALAI Canada, Canadian group of Association littéraire et artistique internationale (founded in 1878). Associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. Numerous publications and conferences in Canada and abroad, mostly on copyright law.

Title	Georges Azzaria (Université Laval). Les Logiciels de Création: Entre la Main et l'Outil Formation créditée par le Barreau du Québec (1,50 heures)
Date	Friday, 19 March, 2010
Time	12:30 - 14:00
Who	Open access - no registration required
Where	Room 202, 3644 Peel Street
Description	Cette présentation vise à discuter de l’impact de certains logiciels de création (Final Cut et Photoshop notamment) dans la détermination de la qualité d’auteur. En effet, les fonctionnalités de ces logiciels d’édition de films et de photographies semblent imposer, en raison de leur rôle prédominant dans le processus de création, une redéfinition juridique de l’auteur. Georges Azzaria est professeur à la Faculté de droit de l’Université Laval où il enseigne la propriété intellectuelle et la sociologie du droit. Ses recherches s’intéressent aux rapports entre l’art contemporain et le droit d’auteur ainsi qu’au statut socio-économique de l’artiste.

Title	Carys Craig (Osgoode):"“Digital Locks and the Fate of Fair Dealing in Canada: In Pursuit of ‘Prescriptive Parallelism’” Formation reconnue par le Barrreau du Québec (1,50 heures)
Date	Friday, 12 March, 2010
Time	12:30 - 14:00
Who	Open access - no registration required
Where	room 202, 3644 Peel Street
Description	ABSTRACT This presentation concerns the potential impact of anti-circumvention laws on fair dealing and the public domain in Canada. It explores possible approaches to regulating technological protection measures while maintaining our traditional copyright balance. Dr. Carys Craig is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she teaches in the field of intellectual property law. She is the Director of the Osgoode Professional Development Part-time LL.M. Program in Intellectual Property. Dr. Craig received her LL.B with First Class Honours from the University of Edinburgh, her LLM from Queen’s University, and her SJD from the University of Toronto, where she was a graduate fellow of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. Her dissertation, Putting the Community in Communication: Re-Imagining the Copyright Model (forthcoming, Edward Elgar Press, 2010) employs critical legal and social theory to examine the central assumptions of copyright doctrine.

Title	CONFÉRENCE droit civil + technos les 18 et 19 février 2010
Date	Thursday, 18 February, 2010 - Friday, 19 February, 2010
Time	13:30 - 17:00
Who	Registration on http://www.gautrais.com/Inscription-en-ligne,764
Where	Centre des Archives de Montréal, Édifice Gilles-Hocquart 535, avenue Viger Est Montréal (Québec) H2L 2P3
Description	Et si nous faisions le point quant à l’impact des technologies de l’information sur le droit civil ! En effet, la révolution technologique, à l’instar de celles de l’écriture et de l’imprimerie, a transformé et transformera en profondeur nos modes de vie. Dans cette perspective, le droit dans sa fonction de régulation sociale ne peut y rester indifférent. Après des années de défiance réciproque, droit et technologie se doivent de nouer dialogue et de concilier la mouvance des technologies avec la pérennité du droit. Une défiance d’autant plus grande que le droit est vieux et que la technologie est neuve (telle que par exemple ce que l’on nomme le « web 2.0 »). Aussi, après avoir butiné çà et là certains (pas tous !) articles de loi (Code civil du Québec et autres lois essentielles) susceptibles d’être affectés par ces changements, nous avons le plaisir de présenter plus d’une vingtaine d’intervenants renommés (avocats et académiques) qui tenteront lors de cette conférence de nous éclairer sur ce qui change et ce qui ne change pas.

Title	Teresa Scassa (University of Ottawa): “A Time and a Place for Everything: Enhancing the Performance of Olympic Intellectual Property”
Date	Friday, 5 February, 2010
Time	12:30 - 14:00
Who	Open access
Where	room 202, 3644 Peel Street
Description	ABSTRACT For many years, Olympic organizers have been refining strategies for protecting Olympic-related trademarks and for augmenting the value of sponsorships through enhanced exclusivity for sponsor trademarks at Olympic events. The IOC has developed a menu of protections that are required as a condition of a successful bid. These include anti-ambush marketing legislation that effective creates a “right of association” that is akin to an intellectual property right in the event itself. In addition to the right of association, temporal and spatial controls are also required to create new zones of exclusivity for the trademarks of event organizers and Olympic sponsors. This presentation examines the practice and implications of using these temporal, spatial and associational limits to enhance the exclusivity of selected trade-marks. Teresa Scassa holds undergraduate law degrees in civil and common law from McGill University, as well as an LL.M. and an S.J.D. from the University of Michigan. She taught at Dalhousie Law School for 15 years before joining the faculty of law at the University of Ottawa as a full professor in July 2007. She currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Law at the University of Ottawa. She is a former editor of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology, and co-author of the book Electronic Commerce and Internet Law in Canada, (CCH Canadian Ltd.). She has written widely in the areas of intellectual property law, law and technology, and privacy.

Title	Laura Murray (Queen's University): What is a Newspaper? Archives and Recent Court Cases in Dialogue (1h30 de formation continue obligatoire reconnue par le Barreau du Québec)
Date	Friday, 22 January, 2010
Time	12:30 - 14:00
Who	Open access
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Where	room 202, 3644 Peel Street
Description	a CIPP - media@mcgill co-production For more details see: http://media.mcgill.ca/en/laura_j_murray Abstract: Recent changes and threats to the newspaper industry offer an occasion or imperative for reflecting upon the nature and value of this ubiquitous genre. In New York Times v. Tasini (2001) and Robertson v. Thomson (2006), the Supreme Courts of the United States and Canada respectively were provoked by copyright cases to define the newspaper. The first part of this talk will examine the intellectual and imaginative contortions of these rulings in the context of literary theoretical discussions of authorship, originality, and genre, and in the context of journalists' recent somewhat desperate attempts to identify what is valuable or unique about the newspaper. But issues raised by the Tasini and Robertson cases can also find a compelling interlocutor in the archives. Examples in the second part of the talk will be drawn from New York City dailies from the 1830s and 1840s, the era in which the penny press emerged. I will focus on the generic commonalities among these papers, which are all various sorts of miscellanies, each defining itself as a node in an exchange system of shared material, subsidized by free postage, and governed not by copyright law but by a nebulous etiquette of citation and reciprocity. The newspaper here is not primarily a unique source of “new news” but a unique package of selected material. While the genre of the newspaper changed considerably over the following 175 years, these early examples can enrich, challenge, and focus overly presentist claims about its value, social function, and nature. Laura J. Murray (PhD Cornell 1993) is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair of the English Department of Queen’s University, where she teaches Nineteenth-century American literature and Literary Theory. She has published extensively on early Native American literature and exploration writing; see for example To Do Good to My Indian Brethren: The Writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751-1776 (U Massachusetts 1998) and “Fur Traders in Conversation” (Ethnohistory 2003). Her most recent publications concern present-day copyright policy: for example, she is coauthor with Samuel E. Trosow of Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide (Between the Lines 2007) and author of “Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement: The Costs of Confusion” in Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus, eds., Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age (U Michigan, 2008) and "Copyright" in Marc Raboy & Jeremy Shtern, eds., Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada (UBC, forthcoming). In summer 2008, she hosted a workshop entitled Copyright’s Counterparts: Alternative Economies of Creativity in Theory and Practice, an initial stage in what she intends as a collaborative project to describe multiple extra-legal systems for incentivizing and regulating creative efforts. These economies (which include Aboriginal cultural systems, Open Source protocols, academic citation, and many more) are often neglected, rarely compared, and under some threat from expansionist copyright law. She is particularly interested in historical case studies as a way of illuminating varieties of ways of organizing creative process. Building on her longstanding interest and expertise in nineteenth-century American cultural history, the focus of her teaching, one of her contributions to the economies of creativity project will be a study of the exchange system in mid-nineteenth-century American dailies. While serving as Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in the New York University Institute of Law & Society in January-June 2007, she was able to complete the initial stage of research for this project, of which the proposed paper forms a part.

Title	CANNED KNOWLEDGE Non-compete agreements and labor mobility of highly skilled employees in innovation industries Formation créditée par le Barreau du Québec (4 heures)
Date	Friday, 20 November, 2009
Time	13:30 - 17:30
Who	Registration requested ($35 fee - free for McGill staff and students): CLICK ON DOWNLOAD BELOW TO GET THE REGISTRATION FORM
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Where	Moot Court, McGill Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street
Description	For its second edition, the Competition and Innovation Colloquium Series, led by Professor Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse, will focus on the key resource of innovation industries: their human capital. A number of commentators have argued that the labour mobility of highly skilled employees is an important component of regional economic development in high technology industries. In particular, the success of Silicon Valley has been attributed by some scholars to the fact that Californian Law generally treats non-compete agreements as not enforceable clauses. This hypothesis constitute an invitation to discuss the law of not-to-compete agreements in a context where employees have access to confidential information or trade secrets. Moreover, legislation pertaining to immigration law obviously affects transnational movements of human resources and knowledge. This colloquium will gather American, European and Canadian academics, industry representatives and practitioners who will analyse policy and legal regimes surrounding employees mobility and its effect on regional growth. Speakers include: - Peter V. Hall from Simon Fraser University - Marshall Leaffer from Indiana University - the Honourable Pierre J. Dalphond - Valérie-Laure Benabou from Versailles University - France Houle from University of Montreal - Patrick Goudreau from Marchand Mélançon Forget - Julie Lessard from BCF - Alexis Steinman from Transcontinental Inc. The Quebec Bar will grant 4 hours of continuing eduction credit for attenting this event. Registration is mandatory: download the registration form at http://www.cipp.mcgill.ca/en/events/upcoming/ contact Hélène Hamou at helene.hamou@mcgill.ca AGENDA 13:30 – 14:00 Welcome and opening remarks: Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse (McGill University) and Karim Benyekhlef (University of Montreal) 14:00 - 15:10 INNOVATION AND MIGRATION POLICY PERSPECTIVES • Mobility and Innovation in Canadian Hitech Clusters, Peter Hall (Simon Fraser University) • Faciliter l'intégration des immigrants qualifiés par une transformation des systèmes réglementaires des ordres professionnels, France Houle (Université de Montréal) • Libre circulation des travailleurs qualifiés: perspectives européennes: Valérie-Laure Benabou (Université de Versailles) • Questions and answers 15:10 – 15:30 Coffee break 15:30 – 17:15 THE PRACTICE OF NON-COMPETITION AGREEMENTS AND THE PROTECTION OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION • The Inevitable Disclosure of Trade Secrets, Marshall Leaffer (Indiana University) • Innovation industry perspectives: Alexis Steinman (Transcontinental), Patrick Baudis (Airbus) • Private counsels perspectives: Patrick Goudreau (Marchand Mélançon Forget), Julie Lessard (BCF) • Questions and answers 17:15 – 17:30 Closing remarks: The Honourable Pierre J. Dalphond 17:30 – 19:00 Cocktail reception (Common Room) ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS VALÉRIE-LAURE BENABOU est professeur agrégée à l’Université de Versailles en France. Elle y dirige le master de droit des nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication et le laboratoire DANTE (Droit des Affaires et Nouvelles Technologies). Elle est personne qualifiée au CSPLA (Conseil Supérieur de la Propriété Littéraire et Artistique) où elle a notamment présidé trois commissions (œuvres multimédias, œuvres ouvertes et liquidation des entreprises de production audiovisuelle). Elle est actuellement professeur invitée aux universités de Montréal et McGill. Auteur de nombreux articles, elle est responsable de la chronique de France à la RIDA et co-auteur de la chronique de droit d’auteur dans la revue Propriétés Intellectuelles. Membre du comité éditorial de plusieurs revues internationales (les Cahiers de la Propriété Intellectuelle, la RDTI), elle est vice-présidente du groupe français de l’ALAI et membre du comité exécutif de l’association. KARIM BENYEKHLEF est professeur à la Faculté de droit de l'Université de Montréal depuis 1989. Il est détaché au Centre de recherche en droit public depuis 1990. Il assure la direction du Centre depuis 2006. Il est aussi directeur scientifique du Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CERIUM : http://www.cerium.ca/) depuis 2009. Membre du Barreau du Québec depuis 1985, il a exercé au sein du ministère fédéral de la Justice de 1986 à 1989. Ses champs d'enseignement et de recherche sont le droit constitutionnel (droits et libertés de la personne), le droit international, le droit des technologies de l'information, la théorie et l'histoire du droit. Karim Benyekhlef a fondé en 1995 la revue juridique électronique Lex Electronica (http://www.lex-electronica.org). Il est également l'instigateur des premiers projets de règlement en ligne des conflits (Projet CyberTribunal, 1996-1999, eResolution, 1999-2001, ECODIR, 2000-: http://www.ecodir.org). Il coordonne le tribunal-école électronique CyberTribunal II ( http://www.cybertribunal.org) qui propose aux étudiantes et étudiants des facultés de droit de résoudre un problème de droit commercial international par la voie de l'arbitrage électronique. Il dirige également le Laboratoire sur la cyberjustice dont les travaux visent à accroître et faciliter l’accès à la justice. Il a également participé à l'élaboration de programmes de bonne gouvernance en Afrique et dans les Caraïbes (Agence canadienne de développement international, Nations-Unies et Commission européenne). Il est l'auteur, avec le professeur Fabien Gélinas de la Faculté de droit de l'Université McGill, de l'ouvrage paru en 2003 aux Éditions Romillat (Paris) « Le règlement en ligne des conflits. Enjeux de la cyberjustice ». Il a également publié en 2008 aux Éditions Thémis « Une possible histoire de la norme. Les normativités émergentes de la mondialisation » et, en 2009, avec Pierre Trudel a dirigé l’ouvrage collectif « État de droit et virtualité », publié aux Éditions Thémis. L'HONORABLE PIERRE J. DALPHOND est devenu membre du Barreau du Québec en 1979 et a été clerc à la Cour suprême du Canada en 1979-1980, d'abord pour l'honorable juge Yves Pratte, puis pour l'honorable juge Julien Chouinard. Après avoir travaillé au Conseil privé à Ottawa (1982-1984), il s'est joint au cabinet Clarkson Tétrault, devenu en 1990, McCarthy, Tétrault, où il a pratiqué de 1984 à 1995 dans les domaines du droit civil, droit des affaires, droit de l'énergie et droit administratif et constitutionnel. Au cours de sa carrière d'avocat, il a occupé diverses fonctions au sein de nombreuses organisations professionnelles, sociales, politiques et artistiques. Il a été nommé juge à la Cour supérieure du Québec en mai 1995 où il a siégé jusqu'en décembre 2001. Depuis janvier 2002, il siège à la Cour d'appel du Québec. Il est actuellement le président de l'Association canadienne des juges des cours supérieures. Il a été président du Comité consultatif sur les nominations à la magistrature fédérale pour la province de Québec (Ouest), membre du Comité sur l'indépendance du Conseil canadien de la magistrature, administrateur de l'Institut canadien d'administration de la justice (ICAJ) et membre de nombreux comités de la Cour supérieure, du Barreau du Québec et du Barreau de Montréal. Il a écrit et donné des conférences au Canada et à l'étranger en droit civill, droit des affaires, déontologie judiciaire, droit administratif et constitutionnel. PATRICK GOUDREAU is a Partner within Marchand Mélançon Forget’s Commercial Litigation Group. After obtaining his diploma in civil law, he completed his Master’s Degree in law at the University of Montreal. Patrick’s thesis focused on banking securities in international commercial transactions. Patrick has many years of experience in the fields of banking, insolvency, bankruptcy law, real estate, as well as intellectual property. As an accomplished and experienced litigator, Patrick frequently represents Canadian and international corporations in all levels of courts, including the Superior Court, the Quebec Court of Appeal and the Federal Courts. He also has an expertise in domestic and international commercial transactions. In this respect, Patrick represents a multinational Italian corporation in the energy sector who has recently acquired a Canadian corporation also operating in this same sector. PETER V. HALL is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He received his PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley, and he previously directed the local economic development masters program at the University of Waterloo. His labour market research addresses unemployment, wage policies, transport sector employment, and the employment outcomes of immigrants to Canada. His work has been published in several academic journals as well as in edited volumes. Professor Hall will speak about labour mobility, knowledge circulation and innovation from a regional economic development perspective. He will summarize the latest research and thinking in the field, and present some of his findings on the position of highly skilled immigrants in Canadian hightech sector clusters. FRANCE HOULE est professeure à l’Université de Montréal depuis 1999 où elle enseigne le droit de l’immigration et le droit administratif. Auparavant, elle a travaillé comme conseillère juridique à la CISR. Mme Houle a obtenu un doctorat en droit de l’Université de Montréal en l’an 2000 et est inscrite au Barreau du Québec depuis 1989. Ses domaines de recherche sont : la réforme réglementaire et le processus d’élaboration de règlements, les directives administratives, la preuve devant les tribunaux administratifs, l’interprétation ainsi que l’indépendance et l’impartialité de membres de tribunaux administratifs. Elle travaille présentement avec les juges administratifs du Québec sur un projet de recherche empirique qui portera sur les conditions de travail de membres de plusieurs tribunaux administratifs québécois. Finalement, elle est la coordinatrice scientifique d’un réseau de chercheurs, le REDTAC – Immigration (http://www.cerium.ca/-redtac-immigration) et au sein duquel elle est en train de développer un programme de recherche sur les travailleurs migrants et la gouvernance publique. Elle est aussi chercheure principale au Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail (www.crimt.org). La présentation du Dr. Houle se concentrera sur l'intégration des immigrants qualifiés par une transformation des systèmes réglementaires des ordres professionnels. L'économie du savoir requiert du 'capital humain' très qualifié. Les États développés, y compris le Canada, se sont lancés dans une course internationale aux cerveaux depuis au moins une dizaine d'années. Pour rester dans la course, ils adaptent leurs politiques migratoires à la vitesse grand 'G'. MARSHALL LEAFFER, Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar in Intellectual Property at Indiana University, Maurer School of Law will focus on the doctrine of inevitable disclosure in U.S. law that restricts an employee’s future employment if that employee will inevitably use a former employer’s trade secrets during the future employment. The doctrine of inevitable disclosure allows for an injunction against competition, even in the absence of actual misappropriation, based on the presumption that defendant’s employee’s duties cannot be performed without disclosure of plaintiff’s trade secret. The doctrine of inevitable disclosure is inscribed in § 2 of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (U.T.S.A.) stating that “actual or threatened misappropriation may be enjoined.” The doctrine has created a tension between the policy of trade secret law favoring protection of valuable information against misappropriation and the goals of employment law favoring employee mobility. Despite its apparent approbation in the U.T.SA., states do not enforce the doctrine consistently; some clearly subscribe to it, while others reject it entirely. He will provide examples of the various ways in which the courts have treated applied the doctrine in the case law. He concludes that the doctrine has an important place in state secret law but should be limited to instances of bad faith or intent to disclose a trade secret on the part of the employee. JULIE LESSARD from BCF is a renowned expert in multiple aspects of business immigration law. She provides strategic advice for the planning, implementation and management of global personnel mobility to numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as emerging leaders across a variety of industries. She acts as a counsellor in due diligence and immigration during corporate restructuring, M&A and organizational change. She participates in numerous seminars across the world and is also a frequent speaker to large and midsize corporations, individuals and practitioners, on various legal topics in the field of immigration law and workforce mobility. Having co-founded Lessard Tremblay Attorneys in 1998, she joined BCF as a partner in 2007 and heads the strategic business immigration team. PIERRE-EMMANUEL MOYSE is a well known expert in technology and intellectual property and a prolific writer. He joined the Faculty of Law in 2006 as Wainwright Fellow. Prior to its career at McGill he was heading the e-commerce department of the Montreal-based firm Leger Robic Richard. Shorlty after, while writing his doctoral thesis which he defended in 2006, he accepted to act as lead counsel in the Euro-Excellence v. Kraft Canada case, representing the importer of Belgium chocolates in a now famous copyright case. He successfully pleaded the case before the Supreme Court of Canada in 2007. Professor Moyse teaches civil law and intellectual property law. He is a member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and leads the Innovation and Competition colloquium series. In 2007 he launched with Professor Margaret Graham of the Desautels School of Management the first integrated and jointly taught MBA/Law course dedicated to the study of the business of law. ALEXIS C. STEINMAN is Legal Counsel for Transcontinental Inc. From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Steinman acted as Legal Counsel for Transat A.T. Inc., where he also sat on the senior management committee of subsidiary Jonview Canada Inc. and represented Air Transat on Canada’s delegation for international air services treaties. Prior to his in-house experience, Mr. Steinman joined Fasken Martineau, from 2003 to 2007, as part-time and articling student, and later as corporate lawyer. Mr. Steinman regularly provides pro bono legal advice to various Montreal start-ups. Mr. Steinman holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Law; he also pursued university studies in Biomedical Sciences. PARTENAIRES DU COLLOQUE

Title	(RIPP) Droit d‘Auteur in the Information Society - Actual Challenges to Copyright for the Digital World
Date	Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Time	13:00 - 14:00
Where	3644 Peel, room 203 (Faculty of Law)
Description	For more information: http://ripp.mcgill.ca/ By Dr. Till Kreutzer, Bureau for Information Law Expertise (i.e.), Hamburg, Germany The role of Copyright is changing. By ruling the access to and the use of information, culture, arts and works of entertainment it appears to be the maybe most important field of regulation for the information society. In the course of its change of meaning, its increasing relevance for stakeholders and the society copyright law faces new conflicts that need to be identified and solved by the legislators. In this connection the interests of authors, rights holders and users needs to be rebalanced in order to encourage modern forms of creativity and distribution and to find an appropriate scope of the copyright. The speaker will refer to these new challenges by addressing examples from the actual continental European copyright debate.

Title	(ALAI) Actualités européennes de droit d’auteur
Date	Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Time	18:00 - 20:00
Who	Registration on www.alai.ca
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Where	Auberge Le St-Gabriel, 426, St-Gabriel, Montréal (salle Dulong)
Description	Les dernières grandes décisions en matière de droit d’auteur qui ont été rendues par la Cour de justice européenne et par des juridictions nationales seront expliquées et, lorsque les circonstances s’y prêtent, comparées avec les développements nord-américains. CONFÉRENCIERS : Mme Valérie-Laure BENABOU, professeure, directrice du Laboratoire de recherche DANTE (Droit des Affaires et Nouvelles Technologies), Université Versailles-Saint Quentin Me Till KREUTZER, consultant, Bureau for Information Law à Hambourg (Allemagne)

Title	(RIPP) Art in the Streets: Graffiti's Challenge to Intellectual Property
Date	Monday, 9 November, 2009
Time	17:30 - 19:30
Where	3644 Peel, room 100
Description	For more info: http://ripp.mcgill.ca/ RIPP Presents, "Art in the Streets: Graffiti's Challenge to Intellectual Property." Graffiti poses interesting challenges to intellectual property. Come hear how. Bring some questions because our panelists will be around for a Q & A after their discussion. Presenting insightful conversations with: Sterling Downey, Founder/Editor of Under Pressure Magazine Raymond Carrier, MBA, M.Ed, City of Montreal Roadsworth, Notorious Montreal Artist, www.roadsworth.com Karen Crawley, D.C.L candidate, McGill University Moderated by Nicholas Dodd, BCL/LLB ALL WELCOME Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=160968484093

Title	Intellectual Property: A new Law of Property? (formation reconnue par le Barreau du Québec)
Date	Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Time	18:00 - 21:00
Who	Open access - Registration requested
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Where	Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (room 100), New Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, McGill University.
Description	This three hour, bilingual continuing education seminar is offered free of charge and will be taught by professors of the Faculty of Law and members of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP) of McGill University. Description It is rare to encounter an exchange today that does not involve an intellectual property right. Our society has moved from one based on services and tangible goods to one based on information and intangible goods; one where intellectual property is becoming the new law of property. This seminar will focus on the role and policies of intellectual property in our society today. The goal of the seminar is to help jurists better understand the strategic choices involved in these proprietary issues from both the business and legal standpoints. The seminar will cover trademarks, royalties, patents, commercial secrets and other forms of intellectual property. Speakers The three speakers, Richard Gold, Tina Piper and Pierre‐Emmanuel Moyse, are full-time professors at McGill’s Faculty of Law. They all teach in the area of intellectual property. • Richard Gold, an expert in the areas of patent law and innovation and transfer of technologies, notably biomedical and agricultural technologies, has been a professor in the Faculty of law at McGill since 2001. He is the founding director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy. • Tina Piper, a graduate of Oxford where she was a research associate at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, has been a professor at the Faculty of Law since 2006. She is Research Director at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy. • Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse was appointed to the Faculty in 2007 and is a member of the Quebec Bar (2000). He recently succesfully pleaded the Supreme Court case Euro‐ Excellence v. Kraft Canada (2007) and he is currently working on a new research initiative titled “Competition Law and Innovation.” Information, registration: www.mcgill.ca/law/fc

Title	The DOMAIN - a Myths and Metaphors Seminar on IP and Private Law
Date	Wednesday, 16 September, 2009
Time	12:30 - 14:30
Who	Open access
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Where	3644 Peel (New Chancellor Day Hall), room 202
Description	For more info: http://m-m.mcgill.ca/sem_en.html Evoking strong images and marked by history, domain is a polysemous concept shared by private law and the law of intellectual property. The term domain comes from the Latin dominium. It expresses the idea of a person’s power, a person’s domination, and corresponds to owners’ exclusive control over their things, their right to use and enjoy the property that they own. In this light, domain and property are synonyms. The idea or the imagery of a domination, taken up again in the Middle Ages, offers another meaning, narrower, but still in use: the public domain, designating the entirety of the property belonging to the Sovereign, property which is, due to this, imprescriptible, unseizable, and inalienable. When deployed as a metaphor, the expression public domain also designates the creations of the human mind that are not subject to an intellectual monopoly, in particular because this right has expired or has been abandoned. Rather than embody the idea of an assemblage of state-owned property or of an appropriation, the expression encompasses instead the incorporeal things which can be freely used. They are not under appropriation, and quite often cannot be appropriated. In this light, public domain and property would be antonyms… From exclusive control of things to free use of them, the concept of domain evokes a set of metaphors which allow us to better grasp our conception of classical property and our conception of intellectual property. Those interested in attending this second seminar will be able to consult the texts prepared by our panellists and, if they wish, publish their own comments (with the images of their choice) on the M&M website. Panelists : - David Lametti - text and images to come - - Tina Piper - text and images to come - - Pierre-Olivier Laporte - text and images to come -

Title	Collaborative Innovation in Biomedicine
Date	Monday, 22 June, 2009 - Tuesday, 23 June, 2009
Time	08:30 - 19:00
Who	Upon registration
Where	Marriott at Metro Center Hotel, Washington DC
Description	This conference will cover key issues, challenges and best practices for Collaborative Innovation in Biomedicine, including: How to Create and Manage Consortia for Success Data Contribution, Results Sharing and Enhancement Solutions IP Issues for Consortia-Generated Knowledge Moving from Pre-Competitive Collaboration Back into Competitive Programs Case Studies of Leading Consortia Including Pharmaceutical Company Perspectives on Collaborative Innovation Consortia from: Merck & Co. | Eli Lilly and Company | GlaxoSmithKline | Pfizer | Johnson & Johnson Conference Program Advisors: Dr. William B. Mattes, Director, Toxicology, Critical Path Institute Dr. Elizabeth G. Walker, Assistant Director, Toxicology, Predictive Safety Testing Consortium, Critical Path Institute Dr. Jackie Hunter, Senior Vice President, Science Environment Development, GlaxoSmithKline Dr. Susie M. Stephens, I.T. Manager / Principal Research Scientist, Eli Lilly, Discovery I.T. Department, Eli Lilly and Company As the pharmaceutical industry moves closer to what has been described as a “Revenue Cliff”, as a number of key patents expire on major drugs, at the same time as the industry confronts the additional challenges of a dramatic decline in pipeline productivity, declining availability of R&D resources, and increased regulatory and business practice pressures, new models for drug discovery and development become critical to the industry’s future. Pre-competitive consortia are becoming an important alternative model for accelerating drug discovery and development, while sharing resources and costs. Current consortia have produced some notable successes and provide a valuable approach for better understanding where the best opportunities for collaboration may exist, what strategies to employ and how to win support for such efforts. This important program will explore pre-competitive, multiple party, consortia-based collaborations in drug discovery and development, examining key questions and issues, including: How should equal partners be brought together? What if the partners are not equal in size or contribution? What is the impact of creating and communicating a compelling Vision and Mission for such consortia? What are the Best Solutions for data contribution and sharing? What Organizational Models work most effectively in which situations? What are the current Best Practices for how such consortia should be organized and managed? What New Models are proven to generate higher levels of IP? How can IP be shared effectively, while being protected? How to move from Collaborative Consortia back into competitive programs. This leading-edge conference will feature key speakers from pharmaceutical companies and non-profit organizations, with first-hand experience in setting up and managing successful consortia, as we explore the most important new models, key issues, challenges and best practices of Collaborative Innovation in Biomedicine. Case studies of emerging consortia-based models and best practices will be featured from such organizations and consortia as: The Dundee Kinase Consortium Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) The Critical Path Institute The Serious Adverse Events Consortium The Biomarkers Consortium The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) Drug Safety and Toxicology Consortia Drug Safety Executive Council (DSEC) Health Commons ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) The Predictive Safety Testing Consortium (PSTC) We look forward to seeing you at this important conference. Phillips Kuhl President, Cambridge Healthtech Institute Bill Lundberg Alliance Director and Senior Conference Producer, Cambridge Healthtech Institute 250 First Avenue, Suite 300 Needham, MA 02494 Phone: 781-972-1346 Email: blundberg@healthtech.com For information on sponsorships and exhibits, please contact: Arnie Wolfson Manager, Business Development, Cambridge Healthtech Institute Phone: 781-972-5431 Email: awolfson@healthtech.com

Title	Conference & call for papers - Lex Non Scripta, Ars Non Scripta: Law, justice and improvisation
Date	Friday, 19 June, 2009 - Saturday, 20 June, 2009
Time	09:30
Where	McGill University, room TBD
Description	Improvisation is an important art form and an artistic and cultural phenomenon; a manner of speaking, a way of being, and a realm of experience. For theorists improvisation as practice and as idea raise questions not just about how law comes to describe, judge, and regulate improvisation, but the converse: how improvisation might describe, judge, and regulate the law. What does or should law tell us about improvisation? What does or should improvisation tell us about law? For intellectual property, ars non scripta is a challenge and confrontation to legal orthodoxy. Does the alternative paradigm of sharing provide a better set of governance options in the creative realm? What other models might serve the purpose of respecting the art in and of improvisation better? For legal theory, lex non scripta is likewise a challenge and confrontation to orthodoxy. Perhaps all art is improvised. Perhaps all law. Or perhaps we have lost something that once we knew about the relationship between meaning and silence, prescription and invention: justice and law. Improvisational art practices are also deeply inculcated in assorted social constructions that one might think a just and civil society should protect and encourage. Do we have a right to improvise, and might we improve our rights? Can improvisation be seen as an ambex within which new forms and relations of social justice might be modeled? Paper proposals are invited on these or related themes for an international, interdisciplinary conference on "Law, Justice and Improvisation," to be held at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on June 19 and 20, 2009 . Possible topics might include: • The legal status of improvised music • Music sampling as improvisation • The law of improvisation • Legal decision-making as improvisation • Ruling law, improvising justice • Improvisation and legal precedent • Improvisation and legal/social change • Informal norm development as improvisation • Improvisation and art/ law and improvisation • The normative space(s) for improvisation • Justice and improvisation (or Justice as improvisation) • The sounding of social justice • The law of the singular event Proposals for papers should include a title, the name and affiliation of the author and an abstract of 150-200 words. Please send proposals by 1 March 2009 to David Lametti (david.lametti@mcgill.ca ) or Tina Piper (tina.piper@mcgill.ca). Proposals are particularly encouraged from graduate students working in a variety of disciplines on and around these themes, and conference funds will be made available to subsidize their participation. The Conference is hosted under the auspices of the Improvisation, Community and Social Practice, a Major Collaborative Research Initiative (www.improvcommunity.ca), and is supported by the Suoni de Popolo Music Festival, the McGill Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (www.cipp.mcgill.ca) and the Faculty of Law at McGill. Please address all inquiries to david.lametti@mcgill.ca or tina.piper@mcgill.ca.

Title	Lex Non Scripta, Ars Non Scripta: Law, Justice, and Improvisation
Date	Friday, 19 June, 2009 - Saturday, 20 June, 2009
Time	09:00 - 17:00
Where	Sala Rossa, Montreal
Description	For more details: http://www.improvcommunity.ca/

Title	Building and Maintaining Sustainable Partnerships
Date	Friday, 8 May, 2009
Time	08:00 - 16:30
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Where	Holiday Inn – La Plaza Room: Ambassadeur C

Title	May 7 - CAMR: Hindrance or Hope? Lessons Learned
Date	Thursday, 7 May, 2009
Time	08:30 - 13:00
Who	Upon invitation only
Where	Arc Hotel, Ottawa
Description	McGill University’s Centre for Intellectual Property, the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy’s Initiative for Drug Equity and Access (IDEA) and The Innovation Partnership (TIP) are organizing a CIHR sponsored workshop on ‘Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime: Hindrance or Hope?’ The workshop will bring together a select group of approximately thirty participants ranging from researchers to parliament members, federal and provincial government officials, industry representatives, international organizations and civil society. The goal of this event is to present research results on Canada’s Access to Medicine Regimes (CAMR) from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. We are hoping that the lessons learned from this regime, combined with the expertise of participants, will help framing new ways of designing effective access regimes in the field of human health.

Title	April 9 - Léger Robic Richard seminar : Religion and trademarks
Date	Thursday, 9 April, 2009
Time	16:00 - 18:00
Who	Barry Gamache (Léger Robic Richard)
Where	Room 16 (S. Scott Seminar Room), McGill Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street
Description	This presentation will examine general principles of trade-mark law and how these principles are applied when rights are claimed in trade-marks having a religious connotation or when it is alleged that they contain “sacred” matter and should therefore not be monopolized.

Title	April 7 - Jamie Love, NGO efforts to reform the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Date	Tuesday, 7 April, 2009
Time	17:30 - 19:30
Where	McGill Department of Art History and Communication Studies, room Arts W-215.
Description	James Love is the Director of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI). Mr. Love is also the U.S. co-chair of the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Working Group on Intellectual Property, chair of Essential Inventions, an advisor to the X-Prize Foundation on a prize for TB diagnostics, and a member of the UNITAID Expert Group on Patent Pools, the MSF Working Group on Intellectual Property, the Stop-TB Partnership working group on new drug development and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards. He advises a number of UN agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, and is the author of a number of articles and monographs on innovation and intellectual property rights. In 2006, Knowledge Ecology International received a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Mr. Love was previously Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a lecturer at Rutgers University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. He holds a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Professor Tina Piper, Research Director of McGill's CIPP, will respond to Jamie Love. For more details: http://media.mcgill.ca/en/node/1373 and http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/ahcsevents/speakerseries/#LOVE

Title	April 4 - Diagnostic DNA Patents: What Lies Ahead?
Date	Saturday, 4 April, 2009
Time	09:00 - 17:00
Who	Upon invitation only
Where	Duke University
Description	Presented by the Duke University Center for Public Genomics, in collaboration with the McGill University Centre for Intellectual Property Policy. For more information and background materials: http://genome.duke.edu/centers/gelp/workshop/

Title	March 20 - Commercialization of innovative research: Implementing solutions that work for Canada
Date	Friday, 20 March, 2009
Time	09:00 - 15:00
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Where	Osgoode Hall Law School Room 206
Description	This conference features a variety of multi-disciplinary speakers who will discuss various aspects of IP commercialization, patenting, entrepreneurship and technology transfer. http://www.iposgoode.ca/conference-commercialization/

Title	Léger Robic Richard Seminar: Global Warming and Intellectual Property
Date	Thursday, 19 February, 2009
Time	16:00 - 18:00
Who	Estelle Derclaye, Nottingham University
Where	Room 16 (Stephen Scott Seminar Room), McGill Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street
Description	REGISTRATION: free but mandatory! Please contact Hélène Hamou at helene.hamou@mcgill.ca or +1 (514) 398-2759. Very few will now dispute that global warming, which is mainly caused by the increase of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as CO2 and methane in the earth’s atmosphere, is the result of human activity. But human activity is far from new. What is new is a certain type of human activity - that linked to industrial development. The question then arises: could intellectual property rights (IPRs) be the cause of global warming? After all, the industrial revolution has brought with it IPRs, among the most relevant of which is patent law which encourages and protects new products and processes. The seminar concentrates on how the existing international IP instruments and EU law already provide safeguards to limit the levels of GHG in the atmosphere. It then envisages how intellectual property rights could be improved to further reduce the levels of GHG. The solutions developed may also inspire other countries, including the Canada, as they are based on international instruments and universal arguments that can apply in any country. The seminar focuses on patents but will also touch marginally on copyright. Le Dr. Derclaye présentera en anglais mais répondra aux questions en français et en anglais. Dr. Derclaye's presentation will be followed by a cocktail reception in the Common Room of 3644 Peel Street.

Title	The Commercialization of Genomic Research in Canada
Date	Friday, 30 January, 2009
Time	08:30 - 12:00
Who	Open access - Registration requested
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Where	Université de Montréal, Pavillon Maximilien-Caron

Title	Copyright Symposium at University of Toronto
Date	Friday, 30 January, 2009
Time	09:00 - 15:00
Where	University of Toronto
Description	For more details: http://www.innovationlaw.org/events/calendar/copyright.htm Please RSVP to centre.ilp@utoronto.caif you would like to attend.

Title	La propriété intellectuelle, levier d'une économie de nouvelle génération
Date	Thursday, 22 January, 2009
Time	14:30 - 17:00
Who	Open - Registration at yan.beaumont@ville.montreal.ca
Where	Centre de recherche en informatique de Montréal, 550 Sherbrooke West, 1st floor
Description	La direction du développement économique et urbain de la Ville de Montréal vous invite à une conférence le jeudi 22 janvier 2009 de 14h30 à 17h00 au CRIM, 550 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, 1er étage. Conférenciers: E. Richard Gold, Université McGill & The Innovation Partnership: "Innovation, propriété intellectuelle et transfert de technologies: vers de nouveaux modèles collaboratifs" Christophe Sevrain, CJPS Entreprises, LLC, Michigan: "La propriété intellectuelle, un facteur de différenciation pour l'attraction et la rétention d'entreprises"

Title	Propriété intellectuelle, biotechnologies et enjeux sociaux à l'heure de la globalisation
Date	Thursday, 13 November, 2008 - Friday, 14 November, 2008
Time	14:00
Who	Open access - Registration requested
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Where	Sciences Po Paris, Amphi. Chapsal, 27 rue St Guillaume, 75007 Paris
Description	A conference organized by McGill Centre for Intellectual Property Policy, Sciences Po's Regulation Chair and The Innovation Partnership - under the leadership of Professors E. Richard Gold and Michel Vivant. To consult the detailed programme please click on "DOWNLOAD" below or go to: http://www.regulation.sciences-po.fr. For registration, contact: myrlene.agbo@sciences-po.fr

Title	Innovative to abuse? Exploring the interactions between intellectual property and competition law
Date	Wednesday, 29 October, 2008
Time	13:30 - 16:30
Who	Open access - Registration requested - $40 admission fee - free for students
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Where	Moot Court, McGill Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street
Description	A colloquium organized by McGill’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and McMillan – An initiative of Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse, professor, McGill Faculty of Law The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy is organizing an international colloquium that will explore the interactions between innovation and competition law from a variety of perspectives. The colloquium will be followed by a cocktail reception. Registration is mandatory - Click on "Download" below to download the registration form Contact: Hélène Hamou at helene.hamou@mcgill.ca or (514) 398-2759 AGENDA: 1:30-1:40 Welcome by Wendy Adams, Director of CIPP and Armand de Mestral, Director of EUCE U. of Montreal/McGill 1:40-1:50 Introduction by Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse, McGill Faculty of Law / CIPP 1:50-2:10 Introduction by J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, US Federal Trade Commission 2:10-2:45 General context, issues at stake and European perspectives Presentation by Pierre Larouche, Professor of Competition Law and Vice Director, Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Tilburg University 2:45-3:05 US perspective Response by Michael Antalics, O’Melveny and Myers LLP 3:05-3:25 Canadian perspective Response by Martin Low, McMillan LLP 3:25-3:45 Competition Bureau perspective Adam Fanaki, Special Counsel to the Commissioner of Competition, Canadian Competition Bureau 3:45-4:10 Questions/Discussion 4:10-4:30 Innovation perspective Richard Gold, McGill Faculty of Law 4:30-4:35 Closing remarks by Nicholas Kasirer, Dean, McGill Faculty of Law 4:35-6:30 Cocktail in the Atrium - Welcome by Larry Markowitz, McMillan LLP An event supported by McMillan LLP and the Institute for European Studies McGill-University of Montreal

Title	Is eCommerce different?
Date	Thursday, 2 October, 2008 - Friday, 3 October, 2008
Time	11:45 - 17:30
Who	Open - Registration on line
Where	Faculty of Law, University of Montreal
Description	Must we approach IT law in the same manner we do traditional law or rather as a “law of the horse” as coined by Llewellyn and used by Judge Easterbrook in his debate with Lessig ? Fifteen years after the birth of the modern Internet, this question has yet to find an answer. Furthermore, on top of this conceptual debate, one also wonders how to interpret the idea of technological neutrality, which was put forth as a guiding principle without ever being precisely or uniformly defined. Other practical questions also remain : are electronic contracts different from their paper counterparts ? Does information security present elements which differentiate it from its traditional equivalent ? Faced with such novel queries, people in general, and the legal community in particular, often revert to models and concepts they have already learned to master. After 15 years, the time is right to revisit these models and see how well they have served us. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION: Conference website.

Title	Launching of CIPP's New Research Initiative: "Competition Law and Innovation"
Date	Wednesday, 23 April, 2008
Time	16:00 - 18:00
Who	upon invitation
Where	McGill Faculty of Law, Common Room, 3644 Peel Street (entrance through 3660 Peel Street)
Description	The CIPP invites you to the launching of its new research initiative "Competition Law and Innovation" that will take place on Wednesday April 23 2008 from 4pm to 6pm at McGill Faculty of Law. Parmi les partenaires de cette initiative figure le Cabinet McMillan Binch Mendelsohn dont la généreuse contribution permettra la tenue d'une série de colloques. The european component of the initiative is supported by the Institute for European Studies McGill-University of Montreal. Ce cocktail sera également l'occasion de célébrer la parution de la thèse de doctorat du Professeur Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse, « Le droit de distribution: analyse historique et comparative en droit d'auteur » publiée aux Éditions Yvon Blais. We hope many of you will join us for this occasion! The CIPP team Location: Common room, Faculty of Law, McGill University, 3644 Peel Street (entrance through 3660 Peel) Please confirm attendance before April 18. Contact : Elisa Henry elisa.henry@mcgill.ca or Hélène Hamou helene.hamou@mcgill.ca

Title	ATELIER DE TRAVAIL SUR LE DROIT DE LA PROPRIÉTÉ INTELLECTUELLE "La PI et seulement la PI? De nouvelles alternatives à la gouvernance de l'innovation"
Date	Wednesday, 19 March, 2008
Time	12:30 - 14:00
Who	Open to the public
Where	Pavillon Maximilien-Caron, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal - Salle A-3464
Description	ATELIER DE TRAVAIL SUR LE DROIT DE LA PROPRIÉTÉ INTELLECTUELLE "La PI et seulement la PI? De nouvelles alternatives à la gouvernance de l'innovation" avec: Wendy A. ADAMS, professeure, Faculté de droit, Université McGill et Konstantia KOUTOUKI, professeure, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal

Title	Barton Beebe, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University: "Intellectual Property Law in an Age of Dilution"
Date	Friday, 7 March, 2008
Time	11:30 - 13:00
Who	Open access
Where	Room 202, New Chancellor Day Hall, Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street

Title	“Tax and Intellectual Property" (co-sponsored by the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation)
Date	Friday, 8 February, 2008
Time	11:30 - 13:00
Who	Claire A. Hill & Brett McDonnell
Where	room 202 - New Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street

Title	Jane Ginsburg "Separating the Sony Sheep from the Grokster Goats: Reckoning the Future Business Plans of Copyright-Dependant Technology Entrepreneurs"
Date	Friday, 1 February, 2008
Time	11:30 - 13:00
Who	Open access
Where	Room 202, New Chancellor Day Hall, McGill Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel street

Title	Canadian Copyright and Trademark Law: Entering the New Frontier
Date	Wednesday, 21 November, 2007
Time	17:30 - 19:00
Who	Open access
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Where	room 201, Faculty of Law (3644 Peel Street)
Description	A Roundtable Discussion Featuring Allen D. Israel, An Intellectual Property Lawyer with Lapointe Rosenstein and Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse, Assistant Professor at the McGill Faculty of Law and former Intellectual Property and Commercial Lawyer with Leger Robic Richard

Title	«L'après DELL: état du droit et droit dans tous ses états»
Date	Friday, 2 November, 2007
Time	09:00 - 17:00
Who	Open to public - registration on line
Where	University of Montreal
Description	L'affaire Dell Computer c. Union des consommateurs . est l'une des grandes décisions de l'été rendues par la Cour suprême du Canada. Remettant en cause les avis de la Cour supérieure et de la Cour d'appel, ce long jugement tranche sur une série de questions majeures touchant à la fois aux recours collectifs, à l'arbitrage et aux contrats en ligne. Mais 141 pages plus loin, les réponses données permettent-elles d'éclaircir la situation? Cette conférence d'une journée réunissant des spécialistes des mondes académique, judiciaire et de la pratique (et notamment plusieurs des avocats qui ont plaidé la présente cause devant le plus haut tribunal du pays) entend faire le point sur « l'après Dell ». Click here to learn more .

Title	Ethics, Law, and Music Symposium
Date	Thursday, 18 October, 2007 - Sunday, 21 October, 2007
Time	09:00 - 17:00
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Where	Music department, UQAM
Description	Organisé par la Société québécoise de recherche en musique, en collaboration avec le Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal et l’UQAM informations: www.sqrm.qc.ca Courrier: info@sqrm.qc.ca

Title	Pop and Policy 2007: Music Fast Forward
Date	Wednesday, 3 October, 2007 - Saturday, 6 October, 2007
Time	09:00 - 17:00
Who	open to public
Where	McGill University
Description	Pop and Policy 2007: Music Fast Forward Schulich School of Music, Montreal, October 3-6, 2007 "'Fast, Cheap and Out of Control', 100 New Effin' Models for the Future of Music: How to Crash the Pricing, Uphold the Ecstasy, Radically Expand the Catalog and Finally Get Artists and Rights Holders Paid the Big Bucks" – Sandy Pearlman Pop Montreal International Music Festival, in partnership with Schulich School of Music and The McGill Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP), is proud to bring you Pop and Policy 2007: Music Fast Forward. This dynamic conference, presented in affiliation with The Future of Music Coalition, comes to the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal, October 3rd to the 6th, and will pick up where last year’s FMC summit left off. Panelists from across Canada and the US will converge in Montreal for four days of groundbreaking discussion about music copyright, distribution models, monetization, new codex, music formats; and how Canada is poised to lead the way on many of these issues. Join leading thinkers in music, law, technology and policy as they debate the challenges and exciting new frontiers facing today’s music industry; an industry that is, in the words of Music Producer Sandy Pearlman, “Fast, Cheap and Out of Control…!”. From mashups to publishing, touring to copyright reform, digital to analog, Pop and Policy 2007 promises to revolutionize your thinking! Programming Highlights include: Special Conversation with Patti Smith and John Nichols Punk rock’s poet laureate with editor of the The Nation and author The Genius of Impeachment Keynote with Dr. Daniel Levitin, Author, This Is Your Brain On Music; James McGill Professor and Bell Chair in the Psychology of the Information Sciences, McGill University Demonstration of new musical instruments coming out of the CIRMMT labs (McGill’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology) Guitar showdown for the panel / demonstration Transcendental Air Guitar, and the Object Lesson of gaming phenomenon Guitar Hero -and- Many more panels, roundtables, workshops, and events with dozens of amazing panelists, including: Buck 65, Murray Lightburn (The Dears), Ed Felten (notorious DRM hacker), Donald Tarlton (producer The Who, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan), Sandy Pearlman (producer The Clash, Blue Öyster Cult), Karlheinz Brandenberg (inventor of MP3) For more info: http://popmontreal.com/politique/

Title	Unpacking Access: Towards the Practical Implementation of Biotechnology
Date	Monday, 4 June, 2007 - Tuesday, 5 June, 2007
Time	09:00 - 17:00
Who	Upon invitation only
Where	Florence, Italy
Description	This workshop will focus on the challenge in making biotechnological innovation accessible to those most in need through three sessions: 1) access to agricultural and health-related products; 2) access to agricultural and health-related knowledge; 3) access to business & money for agricultural and health-related biotechnology.

Title	The Legal Aspects of E-Governance
Date	Monday, 7 May, 2007 - Friday, 11 May, 2007
Time	09:00 - 17:00
Who	Students from the Masters in eGovernance program at Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne
Where	McGill University, Bronfman Building, 6th floor

Title	Droit 2.0: nouveaux développements juridiques face à l'avènement du web 2.0 (FRENCH ONLY)
Date	Friday, 20 April, 2007
Time	09:00 - 17:17
Who	open to public - mandatory registration
Where	Univeristy of Montreal, Faculty of Law, room Jean-Beetz / McCarthy-Tétrault
Description	For more information: http://www.gautrais.com/-20-avril-2007 IN FRENCH ONLY PANEL 1 Président du panel : Vincent GAUTRAIS (Professeur - Faculté de droit - UDM - titulaire de la chaire en droit de la sécurité et des affaires électroniques) 1 - « Définition du web 2.0 » par Michel LEBLANC - Associé fondateur d'Analyweb 2 - « Sécurité 2.0 » par Benoit DUPONT - Professeur agrégé département de criminologie - UDM - titulaire de la Chaire du Canada en sécurité, identité et technologie 3 - « Responsabilité et approche collaborative : qui doit répondre de la wikialité ? » par Nicolas VERMEYS - Avocat - Doctorant - Coordonnateur du CRDP PANEL 2 - Président du panel : Marc A. TREMBLAY (Avocat associé - Ogilvy Renault) 4 - Responsabilités des blogues - Pierre TRUDEL - Professeur titulaire - Faculté de droit - UDM - Titulaire de la Chaire L. R. Wilson en droit des technologies de l'information et du commerce électronique 5 - « Youtube v. Viacom ou droit d'auteur 2.0 » - Marcel NAUD - Avocat - Robic 6 - Publicité en ligne et nouveaux développements - Douglas J. SIMSOVIC, Avocat Heenan Blaikie.

Title	Musical Myopia, Digital Dystopia: New Media and Copyright Reform
Date	Friday, 23 March, 2007
Time	09:00 - 16:45
Who	Open event
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Where	Schulich Faculty of Music (morning sessions) and Faculty of Law (afternoon session) McGill University
Description	WEBCAST of the conference available on line. A unique event that brings to Montreal the most influential and notorious players in the digital media challenge! On March 23rd McGill University’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and the Schulich School of Music are co-hosting an exceptional one-day copyright conference entitled “Musical Myopia, Digital Dystopia: New Media and Copyright Reform”. The workshop will feature panel discussions between top thinkers, policy-makers, representatives from the media industry and artists. The workshop will look at how we regulate digital media, DRM (digital rights management) and the challenges for all parties involved. Should Canada regulate digital content with technological protection measures or should alternatives be explored? What can we learn from the U.S. experience? What do creators think? What do owners think? Where is Canadian law headed? Hear thoughts directly from the most influential people involved, including Professor Terry Fisher from Harvard (founder of Noank Media), Bruce Lehman (drafter of the U.S. DMCA), Professor Michael Geist from the University of Ottawa, legendary producer Sandy Pearlman, representatives from the three major Canadian political parties, and prominent artists. REGISTRATION: For pre-registration please contact Hélène Hamou at helene.hamou@mcgill.ca or by phone at (514) 398-2759. * General admission:$50 * General admission + lunch and cocktail (pre-registration mandatory prior to March 19): $150 * Students/Faculty/McGill Community (upon presentation of identification): free admission, no pre-registration required > AGENDA: 8:00 - 9:00 REGISTRATION (Tanna Schulich Hall, Schulich School of Music, 555 Sherbrooke St West) 9:00 - 9:15 DEANS' WELCOME (Don McLean, Dean of Music - Nicholas Kasirer, Dean of Law) 9:15 - 10:45 THE DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT DILEMMA (Tanna Schulich Hall, Schulich School of Music, 555 Sherbrooke St West) - David Lametti, McGill Faculty of Law (confirmed) - Bruce Lehman, International Intellectual Property Institute - Ann Chaitovitz, US Patent and Trademark Office - Michael Geist, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law - Terry Fisher, Harvard University 10:45 - 11:00 Break (courtesy of MBM Intellectual Property Law LL.P.) 11:00 - 12:30 POLICY RESPONSES AND REACTIONS (Tanna Schulich Hall, Schulich School of Music, 555 Sherbrooke St West) - Sunny Handa, Blakes / McGill Faculty of Law (moderator) - Charlie Angus, NDP - Charles Morgan, McCarthy Tétrault - Sandy Pearlman, McGill Faculty of Music 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch (courtesy of McCarthy Tétrault LL.P.) 13:30 - 15:30 DISCUSSION (room 102, Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel St) - Tina Piper, McGill Faculty of Law (facilitator) - All Panelists from the morning panels 15:30 - 17:30 Cocktail

Title	Technology, Lobbying and Copyright: a Comprehensive Analysis
Date	Friday, 9 February, 2007
Time	11:30
Who	Roberto Caso & Umberto Izzo (University of Trento)
Where	3664 Peel Street - New Chancellor Day Hall - Room 202

Title	Publish and Perish? Copyright Treatment of Freelance Authors in the Digital Era
Date	Friday, 20 October, 2006
Time	11:30
Who	Pina D'Agostino (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University)
Where	3664 Peel Street - New Chancellor Day Hall

Title	Intellectual Property Biotechnology Capacity and Development
Date	Monday, 25 September, 2006 - Tuesday, 26 September, 2006
Time	15:23
Who	Academics, policy-makers
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Where	Buenos Aires
Description	The Workshop will bring together international policy-makers, academics and non-state actors to discuss how to configure intellectual property laws, business and governmental practices and private and public institutions to encourage the development of biotechnological research and development capacity in developing countries and in disadvantaged communities in developed countries. Many argue that intellectual property is an important tool in addressing health and food concerns in developing countries. However, history suggests that developing countries and disadvantaged communities cannot rely on richer countries and communities to address their particular concerns. One option available to developing countries and disadvantaged communities is to develop local expertise and infrastructure in biotechnology. This two-day Workshop will explore the ways that intellectual property law, business and governmental practice and private and public institutions can assist in this effort. To download the workshop report, click on the link below.

Title	De la recherche à la décision politique: l'expérience du groupe de modélisation en propriété intellectuelle
Date	Thursday, 18 May, 2006
Time	08:30 - 11:00
Who	Open to the public
Where	McGill university - room TBD
Description	Part of the 74th congress of ACFAS - "Le savoir trame de la modernité" - McGill University, 15-19 May 2006. On line: http://www.acfas.ca/congres/

Title	MEREDITH MEMORIAL LECTURE 2006 Intellectual Property at the Edge: New Approaches to IP in a Transsystemic World
Date	Friday, 17 March, 2006 - Saturday, 18 March, 2006
Time	09:00 - 17:00
Who	Open to the Public
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Where	Faculty of Law, McGill University - 3644 Peel St., Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1W9
Description	The goal of this conference is to examine cutting edge IP issues through a transsystemic lens. Academics from a variety of disciplines, lawyers and business people will examine practical issues affecting IP systems and will bring together perspectives of both the civil law and common law. The aim is to understand the place of IP law in regulating information production and flows in the arts, social sciences and sciences.

Title	Elizabeth Judge, University of Ottawa
Date	Friday, 17 February, 2006
Time	11:30 - 12:30
Who	Elizabeth Judge, University of Ottawa
Where	New Chancellor Day Hall, room 202

Title	Ejan Mackaay, University of Montreal
Date	Friday, 25 November, 2005
Time	11:30 - 12:30
Who	Ejan Mackaay, University of Montreal
Where	New Chancellor Day Hall, room 202

Title	Isabelle Boutillon, PCT Office
Date	Wednesday, 2 November, 2005
Time	12:30 - 14:00
Who	Isabelle Boutillon, PCT Office, World Intellectual Property Organization
Where	Moot Court, McGill Faculty of Law
Description	Isabelle Boutillon, PCT Office

Title	The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Innovation
Date	Monday, 24 October, 2005 - Tuesday, 25 October, 2005
Time	09:00 - 17:00
Who	International scholars, policy-makers and industry representatives - upon invitation only
Where	European Univesity Institute, Florence, Italy

Title	Biotechnology and Intellectual Property: Restructuring for the Public Benefit
Date	Monday, 26 September, 2005 - Tuesday, 27 September, 2005
Time	09:00 - 18:00
Who	Policy-makers from the Americas
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Where	OMNI Mont-Royal hotel, Montreal, QC
Description	IPMG's third international workshop will be held in Montreal in September 2005. The meeting will explore how ideas are translated into policy and will focus on the creative uses of IP systems to harness public benefit from biotechnological innovation. Meeting participants will include senior individuals responsible for policy development from Canada, the United States and Latin America.

Title	Executive Master in e-governance, Montreal Module: "Legal aspects of e-governance and governance of the Internet".
Date	Monday, 20 June, 2005 - Saturday, 25 June, 2005
Time	00:00
Who	Students from Executive Master in e-governance, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne Switzerland
Where	Bronfman Building (room 647), McGill Faculty of Management
Description	Participants will study the ways in which information and technologies relate to law, legal systems, and institutions. For more information on this program: http://egov.epfl.ch

Title	Science from a different angle
Date	Thursday, 2 June, 2005 - Saturday, 4 June, 2005
Time	00:00
Who	Canadian professors and researchers
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Where	Centre des sciences de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec
Description	Karen L. Durell will give a presentation entitled: "Hey ... Do we own this? Intellectual property - rights & obligations"

Title	Gene Patents and Public Health
Date	Friday, 27 May, 2005
Time	08:30 - 17:45
Who	Center for Intellectual Property Rights
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Where	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Faculty of Law, Auditiorum Zeger Van Hee Tiensestraat 41, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Description	Discussions arise in particular with regard to the patentability of diagnostic and therapeutic applications based on genes. Concerns are expressed with regard to the possible blocking effects of such patents on access to health care.

Title	Sam Trosow: "The Illusive Search for Justificatory Theories: Copyright, Commodification and Capital"
Date	Friday, 28 January, 2005
Time	11:30 - 12:30
Who	Sam Trosow (University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law and Faculty of Information and Media Studies)
Where	Room 202, New Chancellor Day Hall, McGill Faculty of Law

Title	Jerome Reichman: "The Globalization of Private Knowledge Goods and the Privatization of Global Public Goods"
Date	Friday, 5 November, 2004
Time	11:30 - 12:30
Who	Jerome Reichman (Duke University School of Law)
Where	Room 202, New Chancellor Day Hall, McGill Faculty of Law

Title	Health Biotechnology and Intellectual Property
Date	Wednesday, 27 October, 2004 - Thursday, 28 October, 2004
Who	Representatives of the academia, governmental, non-governmental and business communities
Where	European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Description	The purpose of this workshop is to articulate and prioritise concerns intellectual property rights raise with respect to health biotechnology. Invitees will include policy-makers from Europe, Canada, the US and developing countries, internationally renowned academics, representatives from NGOs, and industry voices. A report summarizing the workshop debates and findings will be posted on the CIPP website in Fall 2004.

Title	The Case against Copyright: a Comparative Institutional Analysis of Intellectual Property Regimes
Date	Friday, 8 October, 2004
Time	11:30 - 12:30
Who	Scott Kieff (Washington University in St. Louis School of Law)
Where	Room 202, New Chancellor Day Hall, McGill Faculty of Law

Title	Agricultural Biotechnology and Intellectual Property
Date	Thursday, 3 June, 2004 - Friday, 4 June, 2004
Who	Representatives of the academia, government and business communities
Where	Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Description	The purpose of this workshop is to articulate and prioritise concerns intellectual property rights raise with respect to agricultural biotechnology. Invitees will include policy-makers from the US, Canada and Europe, internationally renowned academics, representatives from NGOs, and industry voices. A report summarizing the workshop debates and findings will be posted on the CIPP website in Summer 2004.

Title	CIPP workshop - Technology Transfer in Canada
Date	Tuesday, 20 April, 2004
Time	00:42
Who	Representatives of the Canadian academia, government and business communities
Where	Blakes Montréal

Title	Seeds of Change, Intellectual Property Protection for Agricultural Biotechnology
Date	Thursday, 8 April, 2004 - Saturday, 10 April, 2004
Time	21:43
Who	Several invited panelists
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Where	University of Illinois, College of Law

Date	Friday, 12 March, 2004
Time	11:30 - 12:30
Who	Georges Azzaria (Law Faculty of Laval)
Where	New Chancellor Day Hall room 202

Date	Friday, 13 February, 2004
Time	11:30 - 12:30
Who	Jessica Litman (Wayne State)
Where	New Chancellor Day Hall room 202

Date	Friday, 23 January, 2004
Time	11:30 - 12:30
Who	Teresa Scassa (Dalhousie University)
Where	New Chancellor Day Hall room 202

Title	Nice work if you can get it, and you can get it if you (go to) tr(ial): James Newton v. The Beastie Boys
Date	Wednesday, 19 November, 2003
Time	12:30 - 13:30
Who	Eric Lewis (McGill Department of Philosophy)
Where	New Chancellor Day Hall room 202