CREATe Spring Public Lecture

The Predictable Decline of Fair Dealing? On Dialogue and Duelling Rights. With Dr Carys Craig, York University, Toronto. Wednesday 21 March 5.30pm - 7pm, Humanities Lecture Theatre.

Fair dealing permits fair uses to be made of copyright protected works without incurring liability for infringement. It has long been a matter of debate whether the defence is properly conceived of as a narrow exception, a limited privilege, or a user’s right . In Canada, which inherited its fair dealing provisions from the United Kingdom, the Supreme Court has defined fair dealing as a “user right” essential to striking copyright’s “balance” between authors and the public interest. It is widely thought that a user rights-based approach to fair dealing—or its US counterpart, fair use—is likely to lead to a greater ambit for the defence, and a more limited scope for copyright owners to preclude publicly beneficial downstream uses of their work. The judicial and statutory evolution of fair dealing in Canada seemed to support this assumption—until recently.

Craig’s presentation will highlight two 2017 cases on fair dealing for education and parody purposes, respectively, which suggest that the recognition of fair dealing as a user right did not produce the paradigm shift that many perceived. Craig has cautioned that the rise of “user rights” may be more rhetorical than real, and may bring more risks to the public interest than we might realize. With a view to these two cases, she will explain why a rights-based balancing approach both permits and legitimizes a restrictive interpretation of fair dealing. She will argue that the fair use doctrine requires, rather than individual duelling rights, a fuller appreciation of the dialogic nature of copyright’s work.

Carys Craig is Associate Dean (Research & Institutional Relations), and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto. She is the Academic Director of the Osgoode Professional Development LLM Program in Intellectual Property Law. Dr. Craig holds a First Class Honours Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, a Master of Laws (LLM) from Queen’s University in Kingston, and a Doctorate in Law (SJD) from the University of Toronto, where she was a graduate fellow of Ontario’s Centre for Innovation Law and Policy.

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UofG Gaelic Language Day 2018

A' brosnachadh cànan agus cultar na Gàidhlig do choimhearsnachd an Oilthighe. Sreath de thachartasan a tha fosgailte do dhuine sam bith. Barrachd fios gu h-ìosal agus fàilte romhaibh uile.

#UofGLnaG 

Celebrating Gaelic language and culture amongst the University community. Our programme of events are open to all. More details here:

Tachartasan | Events

Visualising Medical Heritage and Innovation – Meet the Experts

A collaboration between the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, University of Glasgow’s Anatomy Facility, and Glasgow Science Centre.

Venue - Glasgow Science Centre

Date – Friday 16 March, 10am – 2pm

Visualising Medical Heritage and Innovation – Meet the Experts will show how visualisation techniques such as 3D photography, 2D VR models, gaming and animation, can unlock the stories of scientific innovation, the evolution of medical and surgical care, and the latest advances in anatomy teaching. We will also show how medical heritage can be visualised using unexpected raw materials such as paper and poetry.
The event will celebrate Glasgow’s rich medical heritage through world-famous figures such as Joseph Lister and David Livingstone, and point the way to the latest innovations in surgical care. It will be interactive, participatory, and will illuminate medicine, surgery and anatomy as never before!

Programme (six stands)

  • The First Stethoscope (RCPSG) - Includes an example of the first wooden stethoscope, animations, and an interactive Make your Own Stethoscope activity
  • Virtual anatomy museum (RCPSG) - How can we use technology to visualise a 19th century anatomy museum?
  • Joseph Lister and antiseptic surgery (RCPSG) - See an example of an original Lister carbolic spray, animations and poems showing the development of Lister’s innovation, introduced in Glasgow in the 1860s, and how it changed medical science.
  • Surgeons viewpoint (University of Glasgow / RCPSG) - Meet a real-life surgeon demonstrating advances in medical imaging and visualisation.
  • 3D printing of David Livingstone’s Humerus (RCPSG) - Using visualisation to tell the story of the lion attack that almost killed explorer David Livingstone & live 3D printing of a cast of his fractured humerus!
  • Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy (University of Glasgow) - Highlighting the amazing work done on student projects on this MSc course - a collaboration between the Anatomy Facility, and Glasgow School of Art’s School of Simulation and Visualisation.

Visualising Medical Heritage is a two year digitisation project at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, supported by Museums Galleries Scotland.

This event is part of British Science Week.

Angel Investment Seminar

Date: Wednesday 14 March 2018
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Venue: Kelvin Meeting Room (Room 224), 11 The Square
Speaker: Dr Sarah Hardy & Adam Majumdar

Research and Innovation Services are teaming up with Archangels to provide an insightful session on angel investors and how they might support early-stage ideas for research commercialisation.

Angel investment refers to investment by individuals or groups into early stage business propositions. Archangels is a prominent angel syndicate which has been at the forefront of investing in Scotland for more than 20 years. Their members invest in and mentor promising start-up and early stage companies from Scotland’s vibrant technology and life sciences sectors.

Key themes for discussion

  • The criteria which angel investors consider when deciding to invest in a proposition
  • The support investors provide to their investment backed companies.

Speakers

  • Dr Sarah Hardy, Chief Investment Officer, Archangels
  • Adam Majumdar, IP and Innovation Manager, Research and Innovation Services

We welcome academics in any College with an idea for research commercialisation.

Lunch will be provided

Website: www.eventbrite.com/e/angel-investment-seminar-tickets-43122846595?aff=es2

 

 

 

 

 

First published: 19 February 2018

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