The Digital Tattoo Podcast – Ep. 1 & 2: Copyright and Open Access
The Digital Tattoo Podcast Project explores digital identity issues through interviews and investigations in an engaging audio format. Our first topic is copyright and open access at Canadian Universities.
We’ll explore these topics after considering the life of Aaron Swartz, an American political activist and programmer who co-created the website Reddit, helped launch Creative Commons, and faced a federal indictment for illegally downloading academic journal articles.
Swartz was a passionate advocate for open access. He believed that knowledge is the property of everyone and shouldn’t be hidden behind expensive subscription fees and paywalls. In 2013, after downloading millions of articles from JSTOR, and while facing a $1 million fine and 35-year prison sentence, he committed suicide.
We’ll ask these questions: Could what happened to Aaron Swartz happen in Canada? How well do we understand the laws around copyright? And what is open access all about? We’ll dive into these issues through interviews with leading experts like Michael Geist, open access journals like the University of Toronto’s Medical Journal, legal experts specializing in intellectual property law, and the public lead of Creative Commons Canada.
If you’re confused about how the laws around copyright in Canada work, this podcast is for you.
Listen to episode one, here.
Listen to episode two, here.
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