Copyrights for Indie Artists – online workshop

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Copyright Act, we are hosting an online workshop about the confluence between inspiration, transformation, and copyrights in arts and music.

Join us this Friday, August 2, 2024, from 1 pm to 2:30 pm! Did we mention it’s free to sign up?

Reserve your spot now—tickets are limited!

If artists are influenced by what they see and originality can be tricky to define, how can we understand the function of copyright laws? With the help of our speakers, we intend to raise awareness of this topic and bring light to the resources available to help guide indie artists in protecting their work. Guest artists Datsunn and Julie Sando and legal counsel Fraser Turnbull will share their wealth of experience in navigating the world of art, raise awareness of the limits of copying, and offer informational resources available to independent artists. The discussion will be moderated by CJAM’s Ignite Work Study Live Music and Events Coordinator Heloisa Moraes.

Who are the speakers?

Datsunn is a beat-maker, producer, multi-disciplinary artist, and prolific content creator. He creates a fresh, eclectic blend of classic hip-hop, soul, and R&B, with influences that run the gamut from J Dilla to Curtis Mayfield. Besides having collaborated with brands like Native Instruments and Roland, he runs School of Live Beats, an educational platform that teaches techniques and workflows for creating music using samples. He is a part of Raresounds World, a Detroit-Windsor recording label.

Julie Sando is a lens-based visual artist from Windsor, Ontario. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree (MFA) from the University of West Virginia, and she has taught studio art and visual culture courses at the University of Windsor for many years. Working with both still and moving images, Sando uses collage, photography, and re-photographic processes. Recent bodies of work include the exhibition (he called me his) Fully Transistorized Baby, which was inspired by the collection of vinyl records and amateur radio enthusiast magazines, and Nightshades, a photographic series derived from vintage pantyhose packaging. Her work has been funded by the Ontario Arts Council, and exhibited nationally — at Museum London, Ottawa Art Gallery, Art Metropole, the Kenderdine Art Gallery in Saskatchewan, Centre A, and the Deluge Art Gallery in British Columbia — and internationally in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Poland.

Fraser Turnbull is Legal Counsel and Privacy Officer at SOCAN. He started at SOCAN over a decade ago as a legal intern and returned full-time to the company in 2020 after working in private practice and for the Law Society of Alberta. His work focuses on copyright policy and reform, corporate governance, government advocacy, privacy law and copyright litigation. He has appeared before the Federal Court of Canada, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, and the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench. He lives in Calgary, Alberta.

This workshop is free thanks to the CJAM Innovation Fund, created by donor and CJAM Alumni Karl Mamer.

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We at CJAM understand the value of creating, supporting, and protecting art and music! This workshop is possible due to the CJAM Innovation Fund, created by donor and CJAM Alumni Karl Mamer. If you like our work, please consider donating: https://cjam-merch.square.site/