Native Files: Digital Copyright and Cultural Ownership
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What is Digital Copyright?

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Can Culture be Owned?

»Symbols and Meaning
»Preservation of Heritage

Complications

»What Ownership Means
»Digital Divides

Looking Ahead

References

Links

Links

External Links 

Canadian Intellectual Property Office. http://tinyurl.com/2evcz2 (March 3, 2008)

Creative Commons Canada. http://creativecommons.ca/ (March 1, 2008)

Department of Justice Canada. Copyright Act. http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/ (March 3, 2008)

Parliament of Canada. Bill C-60. http://tinyurl.com/2b9ttv (March 3, 2008)

Wikipedia. The Statute of Anne. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_anne (March 13, 2008)

Wired Magazine. http://www.wired.com/ (March 13, 2008)

World Intellectual Property Organization. Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic      Works. http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html (March 3, 2008)

 

For Further Reading

Aboriginal Canada Portal. http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/

Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. http://www.cippic.ca/

Copyright Board of Canada. http://cb-cda.gc.ca/

A highly visible figure in Canadian copyright reform, Michael Geist uses his blog to track and discuss copyright’s legal and social developments.

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/

Australian law firm Terri Janke & Co. is named for its principal, who is a world leader in Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights. The firm’s website features a “Hot Topics” section that summarizes relevant intellectual property developments in Australia and beyond.

Laura J. Murray, co-author of Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide, comments on current affairs pertinent to the main themes of her recent book, including user’s rights.

Simon Fraser University has launched a government-supported project to document intellectual property issues as they pertain to cultural heritage. Though new at the time of this writing, the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage website promises to be of continuing interest.


LIBR 500: Foundations of Information Technology
School of Library, Archival and Information Studies
University of British Columbia
Erin Abler | March 2008