{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Road to Your Name Podcast","title":"Road To Your Name - Season 8, Episode 3: A conversation with Dr. Jean Dryden about copyright","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2626,"description":"Who Owns the Story? Copyright, Indigenous Knowledge, and AI with Dr. Jean Dryden\n\nRoad to Your Name | Season 8, Episode 3\nThis episode was recorded in November 2025.\nEpisode Description\n\nCopyright affects every creator — and yet most people, Indigenous or not, don’t fully understand how it works or when it protects them. In this episode, Lisa sits down with Dr. Jean Dryden, an internationally recognized expert on copyright and archival material, for a wide-ranging conversation that starts with the basics and leads somewhere unexpected: the deep resonance between Indigenous communal knowledge and the unresolved questions AI is forcing copyright law to reckon with.\n\nDr. Dryden has spent more than 25 years working at the intersection of copyright law, libraries, and archives. She holds a Master of Laws degree specializing in intellectual property from Osgoode Hall Law School, has taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Maryland, and has represented the International Council on Archives at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva. She is the author of Demystifying Copyright: A Researcher’s Guide to Copyright in Canadian Libraries and Archives.\n\nThe conversation covers how Canadian copyright law works, what it gets right and wrong for Indigenous creators, the gap between how copyright treats authorship and how Indigenous nations hold communal knowledge, and why AI is forcing everyone — lawyers, legislators, and creators alike — to grapple with questions that don’t yet have answers.\n\nWhat We Talk About\n\nWhat copyright is — and why Dr. Dryden calls it “an ingenious but imperfect system” trying to balance creators’ rights against the public’s right to access and build on existing worksA brief history of Canada’s Copyright Act, which dates to 1921 and has evolved through multiple amendments to keep pace with new technologiesHow social media changed the copyright landscape — and why Canada’s “user-generated content provision” (2012) was a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/EMAPSU_o9vetcBfJJ4OU41woZtyCGFgI7d9nIXpjEOY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iMGM3/MjAxOGE0Njg1ZWVj/MWUxZTFkMzllNmI3/ZWQzZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}