Professor Michael Geist has edited a new volume entitled The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law, published by University of Ottawa PressThe book features fourteen articles on copyright written by many of Canada's leading copyright scholars from coast to coast. Contributors include a number of Common Law Professors – and Centre for Law, Technology and Society members – namely, Professors Jeremy de Beer, Teresa Scassa, Elizabeth Judge and Michael Geist. Other contributors include Professors Graham Reynolds, Paul Daly, Margaret Ann Wilkinson, Ariel Katz, Giuseppina D’Agostino, Samuel Trosow, Meera Nair, Carys Craig, Gregory Hagen and Daniel Gervais.
The Copyright Pentalogy represents an effort to begin the process of examining the long-term implications of the copyright pentalogy, a series of five decisions about copyright law issued by the Supreme Court of Canada all on the same day during the summer of 2012. It is the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the five rulings.
The book is available for purchase and is also available as a free download under a Creative Commons licence.
Congratulations to Professor Geist and all contributors!