Event to celebrate the Copyright Board of Canada’s 30th anniversary

October 24th, 2019 from 4pm-7pm

O’Born Room, National Arts Center, Ottawa

Please note that during the event, photographs will be taken with a view to
post them on the Board’s social media. Please let us know if your prefer
not appearing on posted photographs.

Schedule

16:00 –
16:20 Arrival
Introduction
remarks by
16:20 – Judge Robert
16:35 Blair
Presentation by
Judge Andrew
Greenwood on
Australia’s
16:35 – experience with
16:55 tariff setting
Panel discussion
on the Copyright
Board: the next
30 years
16:55 – (biographies
18:00 attached)
Closing remarks
18:00 – by Nathalie
18:15 Théberge
18:15 – Cocktail
19:00 reception
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Événement pour souligner le 30ème anniversaire de la Commission du droit

d’auteur du Canada

24 octobre 2019 de 16:00 à 19:00

Salle O’Born, Centre national des Arts, Ottawa

Veuillez prendre note que durant l’événement, des photos seront prises en
vue d’être publiées sur les médias sociaux de la Commission. Merci de
nous aviser si vous préférez ne pas apparaître sur les photos mises en
ligne.

Horaire

16:00 –
16:20 Arrivée
Mots
d’introduction
16:20 – par Juge Robert
16:35 Blair
Présentation par
Juge Andrew
Greenwood sur
l'expérience de
l'Australie en
16:35 – matière de
16:55 tarification
Discussion entre
16:55 – panelistes sur la
18:00 Commission du
 droit d’auteur :
les prochains 30
ans (biographies
en pièce jointe)
Mots de
fermeture par
18:00 – Nathalie
18:15 Théberge
18:15 – Réception
19:00 cocktail

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Panel discussion on the Copyright Board: the next 30 years

Panelist Biographies
Jeremy de Beer (Moderator) :
Jeremy de Beer creates and shapes ideas about innovation, intellectual property, and international
trade and development. He is former legal counsel to the Copyright Board, and now an award-
winning law professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and member of the Centre
for Law, Technology, and Society. As a practicing lawyer and expert consultant, he has argued a
dozen cases before the Supreme Court of Canada, advised businesses and law firms both large
and small, and consulted for agencies from national governments, global think tanks, and the
United Nations. He is online at www.JeremydeBeer.com.

Gilles Daigle:
Gilles was called to the Ontario Bar in 1991, after completing his articling year with Gowling &
Henderson (now Gowling WLG) in 1989-1990. He continued with Gowlings as an associate and
partner until 2013, when he joined his long-time client SOCAN in his current position of General
Counsel and Head of Legal Services. The focus of Gilles’ work during those thirty years was
and continues to be copyright law with emphasis on music related matters, including
representation of SOCAN in administrative law proceedings before the Copyright Board of
Canada. Gilles has also appeared as counsel in the Federal Court Trial Division and Federal
Court of Appeal, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. While Gilles typically represents
copyright owners, he was co-counsel for and successfully defended a corporation accused of
copyright infringement under the criminal provisions of the Copyright Act, in what would
become the leading Canadian case on federal copyright prosecutions. He has been very active in
the Canadian copyright legislation revision process and has often appeared as a witness before
government committees. More recently, Gilles played a key role in expanding the scope of
SOCAN’s activities to reproduction rights and other rights administration endeavors, including
the acquisition of U.S. companies Audiam Inc. and MediaNet Inc. in 2016.
Gilles is a regular lecturer at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, from which he
graduated in 1989. He is also a frequent speaker and writer at legal conferences and other
industry events. He and his family live in the Ottawa area country village of Carp, where he
enjoys wood working and bass fishing nearby.

Kathleen Simmons:
Kathleen focuses her practice primarily in copyright. She has extensive knowledge and
experience in the collective administration of copyright and the certification of copyright tariffs.
Kathleen is also experienced in research, strategic planning and lobbying on a variety of
copyright issues and has experience in dealing with broadcasting regulatory issues. Kathleen
also has an extensive not-for-profit corporate practice. Kathleen has also acted as a registered
lobbyist on copyright matters, and has ongoing relationships with Federal officials and
Parliamentarians.

Kathleen has written and published the Podcasting Legal Guide for Canada, and been an editor
for the Ontario Bar Association’s Entertainment and Media Law Journal, copyright reform
publication In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, several editions of the
University of Ottawa Law and Technology Journal, and a special ethics edition of the Canadian
Bar Review. Kathleen regularly delivers lectures in the Department of Communications at the
University of Ottawa at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Prior to attending law school, Kathleen received a B.A. (Honours), magna cum laude, in
Communications from the University of Ottawa and worked as a Communications Advisor in the
federal government. Kathleen acts as a mentor for law students at the University of Ottawa.

Gabriel van Loon:

Gabriel van Loon practices in the areas of copyright and corporate- commercial law. Gabriel
has co-conducted and co-authored a Canadian legislative compliance study relating to Internet
corporate privacy practices with Professor Michael Geist at the University of Ottawa. That study
was reported on by the New York Times and Toronto Star. Gabriel has acted as Legal Counsel
and Senior Legal Counsel at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB). While at the
CAB, Gabriel managed and participated on all aspects of numerous copyright-related files. He
has developed extensive experience in various areas of intellectual property law, with a particular
focus on copyright. He has also acted as a registered lobbyist for a number of years and has
ongoing relationships with Federal officials and Parliamentarians. His work on copyright files
includes participation on panels, international comparative analysis and the management of
copyright tariff proceedings from start to completion.

Gabriel received his LL.B., cum laude, from the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law in 2001.
He was called to the British Columbia bar in 2003 and is also called to the Ontario bar. Gabriel
has previously worked at a major national law firm and subsequently one of its clients, a major
technology company based in Vancouver, as well as in the Middle Eastern office of an
international London-based law firm. He clerked at the Federal Court of Canada under the
Honourable James Russell.
Prior to entering law school, he obtained a B.Sc. (Honours) in Civil Engineering and a M.Sc.
(Honours) in Engineering from Queen’s University. He also worked as a Maritime Engineering
Officer in the Canadian Primary Naval Reserves stationed in both Victoria and Halifax as well as
working as an independent contractor at a decommissioned U.S. air force base in Northern
Labrador.

Roanie Levy:
Roanie Levy is an outspoken champion of creator rights, in Canada and abroad. An Intellectual
Property lawyer by vocation, she currently serves Access Copyright, a collective that distributes
millions of dollars annually in licensing royalties to creator and publisher affiliates, as President
and CEO. Roanie has also held key positions on major policy files at Canadian Heritage and
Industry Canada and has equally earned distinction in service to the private sector as a
management consultant. She has been called to the bar in Ontario and Quebec. She is fluently
bilingual.