Language Arts & Disciplines Communication Studies
Dynamic Fair Dealing
Creating Canadian Culture Online
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2014
- Category
- Communication Studies, General, Media & the Law
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442614413
- Publish Date
- May 2014
- List Price
- $43.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781442646407
- Publish Date
- May 2014
- List Price
- $100.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442665620
- Publish Date
- May 2014
- List Price
- $41.95
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Description
Dynamic Fair Dealing argues that only a dynamic, flexible, and equitable approach to cultural ownership can accommodate the astonishing range of ways that we create, circulate, manage, attribute, and make use of digital cultural objects.
The Canadian legal tradition strives to balance the rights of copyright holders with public needs to engage with copyright protected material, but there is now a substantial gap between what people actually do with cultural forms and how the law understands those practices. Digital technologies continue to shape new forms of cultural production, circulation, and distribution that challenge both the practicality and the desirability of Canada's fair dealing provisions.
Dynamic Fair Dealing presents a range of insightful and provocative essays that rethink our relationship to Canadian fair dealing policy. With contributions from scholars, activists, and artists from across disciplines, professions, and creative practices, this book explores the extent to which copyright has expanded into every facet of society and reveals how our capacities to actually deal fairly with cultural goods has suffered in the process. In order to drive conversations about the cultural worlds Canadians imagine, and the policy reforms we need to realize these visions, we need Dynamic Fair Dealing.
About the authors
Rosemary J. Coombe is Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication, and Culture in the Department of Social Sciences at York University and an internationally known legal anthropologist.
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Darren Wershler is the author or co-author of ten books, most recently The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting (2007) and, with Bill Kennedy, apostrophe (2006). The former senior editor of Coach House Books, Wershler is an assistant professor of communication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, faculty at the Canadian Film Centre Interactive Art and Entertainment Program, and a research affiliate of the IP Osgoode Intellectual Property Law & Technology program.
Steve McCaffery is the author of over twenty-five books of poetry and criticism. He has twice been awarded the Gertrude Stein Award for innovative poetry and twice shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. His poems have been published in more than a dozen countries. A long-time resident of Toronto, he is currently the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters, University at Buffalo.
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Martin Zeilinger is SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in Law and Culture at York University.