Discussion
This discussion will focus on Canadian, Italian and Portuguese copyright laws and their particularities. It will also focus on copyright laws in a translation context, and the difficulties that can ensue.
There will be time for a question period from the public at the end of the discussion.
This event is part of the
World Book and Copyright Day, an official celebration day since April 23rd 1995.
About our speakers:
David Lametti
David Lametti is a Professor of Law at McGill University. He was Associate Dean (Academic) between 2008 and 2011. He is a Member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and was a founding Member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP); he served as its Director from 2009 to 2012.
Professor Lametti teaches and writes in the areas of Civil and Common law property, intellectual property and property theory. His work to date has attempted to understand the parameters of traditional and intellectual resources in analytic terms, linking them to their underlying justifications and ethical goals. His current writing is grounded in the tradition of Virtue Ethics, and touches upon property, intellectual property and social norms.
In October 2015, David Lametti was elected MP for LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, and, in December 2015, he was named Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade.
Alvaro Faleiro
Professor Faleiros is Associate Professor of French Literature at the University of São Paulo, Brasil, and Vice-Director of the Department of Modern Literatures (Lettres Modernes). He holds a PhD in Poetic Translation (Sao Paulo University) and a Masters in Lunguistics (UQAM).
His work focuses in French literature, Brazilian song, youth literature and African literature. He is also an expert in theory and history of translation. He will talk about copyright and authors rights, and translation.
Moderator:
Olivier Charbonneau
As an associate librarian at Concordia University, Olivier Charbonneau is primarily interested in copyright issues as well as questions of open access and Web 2.0. He holds a doctoral degree from the Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal. He has been involved in the library and cultural communities since the last millennia. He holds two masters degrees from Université de Montréal, one in information sciences and another in law, as well as an undergraduate degree in commerce from McGill University. He has kept a research blog since 2005 in French at www.culturelibre.ca, and since 2011 in English at OutFind.ca.
Olivier Charbonneau’s doctoral studies in law at Université de Montréal attempts to understand the role of limitations and exceptions to copyright with regards to access and use contracts. He is interested in the emergence of legal modalities to access and use digital culture, knowledge or informational goods, such as ebooks, scientific or governmental documentation as well as content distributed freely on the Internet.
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