Panel on Danish right to one's image through copyright

Online formation with ZOOM

 

Date: Wednesday November 26, 2025 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Montreal time)

1:00 of Continuing Legal Education

 

Description:

Deepfakes and Copyright Law?  A Danish Proposal

Last year, the Danish government introduced a bill to amend its copyright law to provide a form of copyright protection that would allow persons to control the use of their likeness and voice.  As the deepfake phenomenon persists, is this an appropriate way to help the victims of this AI activity?  Our Danish copyright expert will report on the proposal and the fate it has been meeting since it was put forward.  A Canadian lawyer will provide a common law perspective on this matter  and our chair will also include comments on the Quebec  civil law approach to this issue.

 

Costs (taxes not included):

Free for students

Free for "Adhésion +" members

$60.00 for members of ALAI Canada (you must be log in to see this to have access to this fee)

$120.00 for non-members

 

Guest speaker :

Jørgen Blomqvist obtained his LLM (1976) and PhD (1987) from the University of Copenhagen. He has worked with copyright issues in the Ministry of Culture, Copenhagen; as Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen; as Assistant General Manager of the Danish collective performing rights management organization Koda; and as Director, Copyright Law Division, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva. Presently, he is Affiliated Professor of international copyright at the University of Copenhagen, where he undertakes research in and teaches copyright contracts and interpretation of international copyright conventions.

Daniel Glover, partner at McCarthy Tétrault LLP has significant experience in all aspects of information law. He has worked on the highest-stakes files in the field. In his litigation practice, Daniel delivered oral submissions on behalf of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and other creative industry stakeholders in the landmark decision of Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Google Inc., 2017 SCC 73, a case that created a new form of equitable relief allowing courts to order search engines to remove links to infringing content worldwide and across all of their platforms. He has also represented clients in other complex matters before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, the Copyright Board of Canada, the CRTC and the Trademarks Opposition Board.

Me Aicha Tohry (ARTY LAW) practises creative industries law, with a focus on entertainment, marketing and information technology. A member of the Quebec and Ontario bars, she teaches entertainment law at the Université de Montréal and supervises the intellectual property division of its legal clinic. In 2024, she published Guide pratique sur le marketing d'influence (Éditions Yvon Blais – Thomson Reuters), a reference work on influencer marketing law.