Friday 12h00

Moderator: Declan McCullagh, Technology Journalist, CNET

I was especially pleased by Michael Binder’s presentation on The Network Age. He’s Industry Canada’s Assistant Deputy Minister and, if you ignore the fact that kids playing hula-hoop are apparently related to broadband connectivity, did a good job at outlining the connectivity efforts in Canada, the current challenges and our achievements so far (Korea being smaller that Newfoundland, we’re going well in the broadband area).

The Heritage Canada representatives talked about the questions and issues that are currently being discussed and evaluated. The priorities are the Wipo treaties, access and educational use, photographic works, transition period for unpublished works.

The biggest public policy issues are: balancing interests in the new technological environment, the use of international legal instruments, encouraging new business models, ownership and access of digital works, Intermediaries and copyrights