Sara Bannerman's resume
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, Department of Communications and Multimedia, McMaster University, July 2011 – present
Postdoctoral fellow, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University, May 2009 – Apr. 2011
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Sept. 2009 – May 2010
Education
PhD (2009, Carleton University, Ottawa)
M.A. (2004, Carleton University, Ottawa)
B. Music (1998, Queen’s University, Kingston)
Publications
Bannerman, Sara. Canada and the Berne Convention: 1886-1971. Vancouver: UBC Press, forthcoming.
———. “Canada and the Future of International Copyright.” Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 36 no 1: 31-50. [download]
———. “WIPO and the ACTA Threat.” International Journal of Technology Policy and Law, forthcoming. Also published as PIJIP Research Paper No. 4. Washington, DC: Washington College of Law, 2010. [link to paper]
de Beer, Jeremy and Sara Bannerman. “Foresight into the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Development Agenda.” World Intellectual Property Organization Journal, 1 no. 2 2010. [download Volume 1, Issue 2]
Bannerman, Sara. “Copyright: Characteristics of Canadian Reform.” Chapter 1 in Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda: From Radical Extremism to Balanced Copyright, Michael Geist, ed. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010. [link to article]
———. “Middle Powers and International Copyright History: the case of Canada.” Chapter in Copyright Future: Copyright Freedom, Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2011, pp. 79-96. [download the whole book]
———. “The Ins and Outs of the Public Domain [Review of the four books Terms of Use: Negotiating the Jungle of the Intellectual Commons, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, The Global Idea of “the Commons”, and The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law].” Global Media Journal -- Canadian Edition 2, no. 1 (2009): 167-173.[link to article]
———. “The WIPO Development Agenda Forum and Its Prospects for Taking into Account Different Levels of Development.” Chapter 2 in Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization's Development Agenda. Edited by Jeremy de Beer. Waterloo: University of Wilfrid Laurier Press/CIGI/IDRC, 2009. [download book from IDRC][view chapter]
———. “The Development Agenda at WIPO: Where is Canada?” Chapter 10 in Innovation, Science and Environment: Canadian Policies and Performance 2008-2009. Edited by Glen Toner. Montreal: Published for the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008:190-208. [download abridged version from SSRN] [link to McGill-Queens University Press]
———. Intellectual Property Issues in ICT4D. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2007.[download from SSRN][download from IDRC digital library]
———. Review of Intellectual Property: The Law in Canada, by Daniel Gervais & Elizabeth Judge. Canadian Journal of Communication 32, no. 1 (2007): 143-145. [link to article]
———. “Canadian Copyright Reform: Consulting with Copyright’s Changing Public.” Intellectual Property Journal 19, no. 2 (April 2006): 271-296. Reprinted as Chapter 7 in Copyright Infringement: New Mystifications. Edited by Veena Audinharayana. Hyderabad: Amicus Books, 2009.[download from SSRN] Reprinted as Chapter 6 in Copyright Law Reforms: Global Depiction. Edited by Audhi Narayana Vavili. Hyderabad: Amicus Books, 2008.
———. “Copyright and the Global Good? An Examination of “the Public Interest” in International Copyright Regimes.” In Intellectual Property Rights and Communications in Asia: Conflicting Traditions. Edited by Pradip Ninan Thomas and Jan Servaes. New Delhi: Sage, 2006.[link to Sage] Reprinted as Chapter 6 in Public Interest and Law: Theory and Practice. Edited by A. Sabitha. Hyderabad: Amicus Books, 2009.[download draft version from SSRN]
———. Review of In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, edited by Michael Geist. Canadian Journal of Communication 31, no. 2 (2006): 474-475.[link to article]
Awards
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at McGill University (2011-2012, declined)
Berlin Law in Context Research Network Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Forum Transregionale Studien, affiliated with the Faculty of Law at Humbolt University, Berlin and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2011-2012, declined)
Fulbright Award (2009-2010)
SSHRC Postdoctoral Award (2009-2011)
Carleton University Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement (2009)
Dallas Smythe Award from the International Association for Media and Communications Research (2008)
- Received for my paper "Berne Buster: Canada and the Berne Convention, 1887-1908".
Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2005-2008)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2005 - declined)
Dean of Graduate Studies Academic Excellence Scholarship for Domestic Students (2007-2008)
Carleton University Domestic Tuition Scholarship (2004-2007)
Carleton University Departmental Scholarship (2004-2007)
Graduate Students' Association Honour Award for Outstanding Commitment
and Dedication to Carleton and the Graduate Community (2007)
- The GSA honour award was established by the GSA council in 2001
in order to recognise those graduate students who have demonstrated
outstanding commitment and dedication to Carleton, and the graduate
community specifically. Four are handed out each year.
Conference Presentations
Bannerman, Sara. “International Copyright, Access to Knowledge, and Smaller Countries: A History.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Istanbul, 14 July 2011.
———. “Music and Stardom in Online Social Networks.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Istanbul, 14 July 2011.
———. “Crowdfunding Culture.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Canadian Chapter, Montreal, 18 June 2011.
———. “Music and Stardom in Online Social Networks.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Communications Association, Fredericton, 30 May 2011.
———. “Access to Knowledge: A History of International Copyright.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Australasian Intellectual Property Scholars, 5-6 February 2011.
———. “‘We are all developing countries’: Canada and International Copyright History.” Paper presented at the second annual workshop of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, DC, 24-25 September 2010.
———. “International Copyright, Middle Powers, and Multilateralism.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Braga, Portugal, 18-22 July 2010.
———. “The World Intellectual Property Organization and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Threat.” Paper presented at ACTA workshop hosted by American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Washington DC, 16-18 June 2010.
———. “Canada, the United States, and the Berne Convention, 1886-1971: Lessons for Today.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Communications Association, Montreal, 1-2 June 2010.
———. “Canada, the United States, and the Berne Convention, 1886-1971: Lessons for Today / Canada and the United States: Path Dependency in International Copyright and How to Stop It.” Paper presented at the Institute for Global and International Studies, George Washington University, 13 May 2010.
———. "Canadian Copyright Sovereignty in Historical Perspective." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Communications Association, Ottawa, 28-30 May 2009.
———. "Copyright History, Copyright Future: Canadian international copyright history and the future of international copyright." Paper presented at the Copyright History: Copyright Freedom conference, Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, 27-28 May 2009. [program]
———. “Imperialism and Internationalism: Imperial Copyright, the Berne Convention, and the Canadian Copyright Act of 1921.” Paper presented at the Two Days of Canada Conference: Connecting through Media History, Brock University, St. Catharine’s, Canada, 6-7 November 2008.
———. “Canada and the Formation of the Berne Convention: 1839 – 1886.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Stockholm, Sweden, 20-25 July 2008.
———. “Berne Buster: Canada and the Berne Convention, 1887-1908.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Stockholm, Sweden, 20-25 July 2008. [This paper received the Dallas Smythe Award from the International Association for Media and Communications Research (2008) and can be downloaded from the IAMCR's web site.]
———. “Implementing the WIPO Development Agenda: Prospects for Taking into Account Different Levels of Development in WIPO Treaties.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Stockholm, Sweden, 20-25 July 2008.
———. “Canadian Copyright under the Colonial System: 1842-1875.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Communications Association, Vancouver, 4-6 June 2008.
———. “Evidence-based research and balance in Canadian intellectual property policies.” Position statement presented at “Converging in Parallel: Linking Communications Research and Policy in Emerging Canadian Scholarship,” McGill University, Montreal, 9-10 November, 2006.
———. “Intellectual Property and Development: Where Is Canada?” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Cairo, Egypt, 24-28 July 2006.
———. “Sending Out the Search Party: Project Quaero - A European Partnership in Audio/Video Search.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Cairo, Egypt, 24-28 July 2006.
———. “‘I Seek’ Quaero: The Rationalities of Partnership in Search Engine Technology.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Communications Association, Toronto, 1-3 June 2006.
———. “Raymond Williams and the Reformulation of "The Public Interest" in Copyright.” Paper presented at Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication graduate student conference, Theory and After, Ottawa, 7 April 2006.
———. “Same-Sex Marriage, Social Cohesion, and Canadian Values: A Media Analysis." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Taipei, Taiwan, 26-28 July 2005.
———. “Same-Sex Marriage, Social Cohesion, and Canadian Values: A Media Analysis.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Communications Association, London, Ontario, 2-4 June 2005.
———. “Challenging Copyright Traditions: “The Public Interest” in International Agreements.” Paper presented at the Enlarging the Canadian Intellectual Property Academy Conference, London, Ontario, 20-22 January 2005.
———. “Copyright and the Global Good? An Examination of ‘the Public Interest’ in International Copyright Regimes.” Paper presented at the international forum Intellectual Property Rights, Communication and the Public Domain in the Asia-Pacific Region, hosted by the University of Queensland and the World Association for Christian Communication, Brisbane, Australia, 14-17 December 2004.
———. “Copyright at Home/Canadian Copyright Reform: Consulting with the Public.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 24-30 July 2004.
———. “Copyright and Negative Liberty.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Communications Association, London, Ontario, 3-5 June 2004.
———. “A Report on Copyright.” Paper presented at Carleton University’s Institute of Political Economy graduate student conference, Conflict, Challenge, and Change:(Re)thinking State, Class, and Gender at the Turn of the Millennium, Ottawa, 5 March 2004.
Media
Bannerman, Sara. “Op-Ed: The A2K problem: copyright, accessibility and the future of copyright in Canada.” The Hill Times, 27 January 2011, p. 28. [link to article]
Bannerman, Sara. “Op-Ed: We Should Copyright the Canadian way.” The Hill Times, 25 October 2010, p. 41. [link to article]
Interviewed at "Copyright History - Copyright Freedom" conference, Canberra, Australia, 27 May 2009. [listen]
Interviewed on CKNW Nightline BC, a call-in program, regarding research paper “Same-Sex Marriage, Social Cohesion, and Canadian Values: A Media Analysis.” 7 June 2006
Produced a 15-minute "copyright news" segment weekly on CKCU FM, Carleton University. October 2003-April 2004.
Produced and hosted a weekly hour-long spoken word program called "Queer Street" on CFRC FM, Queen's University. 1995-1998.
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