Michael Geist

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Michael Geist is a Canadian academic who is recognized as an international expert in Internet and copyright issues. He holds a prestigious Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa.

Geist was educated at Osgoode Hall Law School, Cambridge University and the Columbia Law School.

His weekly columns on new technology and its legal ramifications appear in the Toronto Star and the Ottawa Citizen, among other newspapers, and help bring these complex issues to the understanding of Canadians across the country. He is widely quoted in the national and international media on Internet law issues, and appears regularly before Parliamentary committees to testify on these subjects. He has received numerous awards for his work including Canarie’s IWAY Public Leadership Award for his contribution to the development of the Internet in Canada.

He served on Canada's National Task Force on Spam and is the founder of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, Canada's leading public interest technology law clinic. He is also a board member of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, which manages the dot-ca domain. In 2006, he announced that he would not run for re-election to the board.

Dr. Geist was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2002[1].

On August 18, 2006, Dr. Geist launched a wiki around his "30 Days of DRM" blog post. The intended purpose of said wiki is discussion of DRM technology and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in relation to copyright legislation in Canada.

[edit] Books

Internet Law in Canada, a law textbook.
In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, edited by Geist, a collection of essays dealing with Bill C-60 and Canadian copyright reform.