Judy Naiberg, Sony Music Entertainment; Barry Sookman, McCarthy Tétrault; Paul Spurgeon, SOCAN
Friday October 5, 2012 Toronto Roundtable Event: Streaming the Supreme Court on Downloaded Music Royalties: Who Wins, Who Loses, Who Pays?
Judy Naiberg obtained her BA (1989) from McGill University and her LLB (1992) from Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1994. She is an active member of the executive team and a key advisor to the President in developing strategy for Sony Music Canada. Ms. Naiberg oversees both legal and business affairs for the company, providing guidance on a wide variety of issues including content acquisition, licensing, marketing, sales, digital distribution, business development, transactional matters and litigation.
Barry Sookman is a Partner at McCarthy Tétrault in the firm’s Toronto Technology Law Group and was former leader of the firm’s Intellectual Property Group. He is recognized as one of Canada’s foremost authorities in information technology, Internet and copyright law. He has argued numerous precedent-setting IP cases at all levels of courts including the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. Sookman is author of numerous books, including the leading six-volume treatise Computer, Internet and Electronic Commerce Law, Canadian and International Casebook, Copyright: Cases and Commentary on the Canadian and International Law, and Computer, Internet and E-Commerce Terms: Judicial, Legislative and Technical Definitions. He is consistently identified by numerous publications as one of Canada’s top information technology and intellectual property lawyers.
With over three decades as a lawyer in the music business, Paul Spurgeon is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and the American Federation of Musicians. He has also served as a member of the Copyright Legislation Committees (Policy) of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada and the Canadian Bar Association. Previously, Paul served as Legal Counsel to CAPAC, one of SOCAN's predecessors, and as a law clerk to the Chief Judge of the County and District Courts of Ontario. In 1988, he was elected to the Legal Committee of CISAC and served as its Chair for several years. From 2010 to 2011 Paul was a Director of JPEC (Jazz Performance and Education Centre) and in 2011, he was been named as trustee for the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. He has appeared before the Copyright Board, the Federal Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada, the CRTC, and various parliamentary committees. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and the Richard Ivey School of Business Executive Program of Western University.
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