A transplant from Vancouver, British Columbia, Alex Cameron is a doctoral candidate in law and technology and a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa. His current research and writing covers a number of related topic areas, including privacy, international outsourcing, competition law, intellectual property, digital rights management (DRM) technology and Internet service providers. Alex has regularly published papers and delivered conference presentations in his areas of work and legal practice. Alex has also acted as counsel in a number of significant privacy and intellectual property cases, including as counsel before the Federal Court of Appeal in Canada’s music file-sharing case – BMG Canada Inc. v. John Doe. Alex has also testified regarding copyright reform before committees of the House of Commons and the Senate. Outside of his legal and academic pursuits, Alex propels himself down mountains across Canada as fast as he can; he is an avid downhill mountain bike racer and co-editor of a successful mountain biking zine at asilvertouch.com.
RESEARCH: Alex has worked with Ian and on the “On the Identity Trail” project on a number of papers and presentations, including the following:
- “Nymity, P2P & ISPs: The Implications of BMG (Canada) v Doe” in Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation, ed K.J. Strandburg and D.S. Raicu (New York: Springer, 2005) [co-authored in equal proportion with Ian Kerr].
- “Beyond the Panopticon: architectures of power in DRM,” Panopticon, The 15th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy, Keeping an Eye on the Panopticon: Workshop on Vanishing Anonymity, Seattle, April 12, 2005.
- “Digital Rights Management: Where Copyright and Privacy Collide” (2004) 2 Canadian Privacy Law Review 14.
- “Infusing Privacy Norms in DRM: Incentives and perspectives from law,” in Yves Deswarte, et al. (eds.), Information Security Management, Education and Privacy, IFIP 18th World Computer Congress, TC11 19th International Information Security Workshops, 22-27 August 2004, Toulouse, France (Kluwer 2004).
- The Nexus of Intellectual Privacy and Copyright
- Technology and the law: Will reasonableness be the ruin of privacy?
- BEYOND THE PANOPTICON: ARCHITECTURES OF POWER IN DRM
Musings on philosophy, law and technology - Alex Cameron, “Of Countrymen and Copyright: Exploring the nexus of copyright and privacy in Canada using copyright policy, data protection and the Charter” (Presentation to the Privacy and Networks Workshop, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, April 2006)
- Alex Cameron, “P2P Litigation Summit: Canadian and Global Developments” Presentation to the First Annual P2P Litigation Summit (November 3, 2005), Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, USA
- Alex Cameron, Lights, Camera,… Harmonize: Photography Issues in Copyright Reform in Michael Geist, ed., In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law (Irwin Law, 2005)
- For a full list of Alex’s papers and presentations, please click here and here.
