Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online – Call For Papers

Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online

A volume to be edited by Rosemary J. Coombe (Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Culture, York University) and Darren Wershler-Henry (Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University)

It has become commonplace to assert that networked digital technologies provide significant tools and unique opportunities for democratically transforming Canadian cultural life. The critical rejoinder to this commonplace -- that the progressive possibilities of such technologies are not inherent, but shaped by their social regulation -- is underdeveloped, but is nevertheless gaining ground. What remains to be explored are the complex, contingent and shifting relationships characteristic of the space between digital cultural creation and regimes of social regulation – the process of “dealing” itself. The dynamic practice of dealing and negotiations around its fairness shapes the forms that culture can and will take in Canada for the near future. In the context of the immediate prospect of changes to Canadian copyright law, this project takes on a particular degree of relevance and urgency.

In this volume, approximately twenty scholars and artists across disciplines and genres will explore the relations between intellectual property laws, technology and code, institutional practices, and obstacles to mobility that mediate the cultural worlds Canadians can imagine and explore as educators, researchers and creators. The essays will place particular emphasis on practices of dynamic fair dealing – emergent approaches to the creation, circulation and management of digital cultural objects that challenge and/or present alternatives to traditional paradigms of intellectual property and cultural policy.

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