4th Annual TIP Group Conference 2003

Time

Event

Speaker

Rex Shoyama & Andrea Slane
Conference Co-Chairs

Dean Ron Daniels
Law, University of Toronto

Professor Neil Netanel
Law, University of Texas in Austin

Topic: P2P file swapping and the copyright provisions of TRIPS. A proposal for unhindered peer-to-peer file swapping in return for imposing a levy on P2P-related products and services. Whether such a regime would be compliant with TRIPS.
Related Paper: Impose a Noncommercial Use Levy to Allow Free P2P File-Swapping and Remixing

Jeanette Lee (Moderator)
Bereskin & Parr

Professor Andrew Clement
Information Studies, University of Toronto
Topic: Developing national and international policy to ensure universal access to the Internet, and the ways that restrictive international intellectual property regimes may frustrate these efforts.
Related Website: Information Policy Research Program

Professor Arthur Cockfield
Law, Queen's University
Topic: How cyberspace transactions present challenges to many traditional international tax laws and principles; reform efforts in Canada, the United States, and the European Union.
Related Paper: "The Law and Economics of Digital Taxation: Challenges to Traditional Tax Laws and Principles"

Professor Ron Deibert
Political Science, University of Toronto
Topic: The security and design of the Internet with respect to global governance issues; whether the time has come for a kind of cyberspace arms control.
Related Website: Citizen Lab

Lunch (provided)

Introduction for Second Keynote Speaker

Professor Monroe E. Price
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Topic: Regulation of the media for political ends, including "self-regulation," media regulation in conflict zones, the control of harmful and illegal content, and the use of foreign aid to alter media in target societies.
Related Book: Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and Its Challenge to State Power

Panel Discussion: National Sovereignty in Cyberspace

Casey Chisick (Moderator)
Cassels Brock and Blackwell

Professor Jane Bailey
Law, University of Ottawa
Topic: The non-universality of U.S. First Amendment jurisprudence (Ms. Bailey served as counsel for complainant Ms. Sabina Citron in Citron v. Zundel).
Related Case: Citron v. Zundel (Canadian Human Rights Tribunal)

Caroline Zayid
McCarthy Tétrault
Topic: The strategy in Citron v. Zundel, the first case involving assertion of Canadian jurisdiction over hate speech on the Internet, especially where the site was hosted on an American server (Ms. Zayid served as counsel for the Canadian Human Rights Commission that case).
Related Case: Citron v. Zundel (Canadian Human Rights Tribunal)

Matthew Zischka (Moderator)
Smart & Biggar

Jonathan Cohen
ICANN Board of Directors
Topic: The ICANN experiment: the ability for users of an international global resource to have direct and active input into its operations and policy development, unlike existing treaty and other organizations that manage similar resources. It must succeed.

Stephen Selznick
Cassels Brock and Blackwell
Topic: "Master of Our Own Domains?": Domain names are no longer merely identifiers but are a form of intellectual property in their own right. The ongoing clash between national intellectual property regimes and ostensibly supranational domain names requires a re-conceptualization of the basic principles of the entire system.

Francois van Vuuren
Centre for Innovation Law and Policy Fellow
Topic: The controversy in South Africa over government administration of the ".za" domain name.

Closing Remarks

Rex Shoyama & Andrea Slane
Conference Co-Chairs

Reception in the Rowell Room