Teaching
Sessional instructor, Carleton University Department of Law.
"LAWS 3202: Intellectual Property." (Summer 2009)
—— Critical assessment of copyright, patents, trademarks, trade secrets and other forms of intellectual property; regulation and governance of information technology including self-regulation, standard setting, licencing, competition policy and international dimensions.
Part-time professor, University of Ottawa Department of Communication.
"CMN3182: Policy Studies." (Winter 2008)
—— Study of the principles governing information and communication regulations, national and international. Examination of the legal and regulatory systems of Canadian media. Issues in the social and cultural domain.
Part-time professor, University of Ottawa Department of Communication.
"CMN3165: Media Industries." (Winter 2008)
—— Study of the relationship between media technologies and the Canadian regulatory system. Cable, satellite, conglomerates, competition, protectionism, specialized networks, ratings.
Sessional lecturer, Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication.
“MCOM 2302: Communication Policy: Institutions and Practices.” (Winter 2005 and 2007)
—— This course is designed to introduce students to a number of communication policy areas, including the communication policy of the government (how the government communicates with citizens) and the governance of communication (how the government regulates communication technologies and practices). Students are introduced to key policies, institutions, and issues relevant to the selected policy areas. Topics covered include the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, government communication policy, access to information and privacy, copyright, telecommunications policy, broadcasting policy, regulation of the Internet, censorship, and multiculturalism policy.
Conference Presentations
Bannerman, Sara. “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
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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