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Mark Perry

Mark Perry

Professor, School of Law

Qualifications

LLB (Manchester) 1976, DipCompSci, (Auckland) 1995, MJur (Auckland) 1998. Barrister and Solicitor, Law Society of Upper Canada

Contact

Email:
Room: W38 Room 32
Phone: 02 6773 2910 (or +61 2 6773 2910 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 2580

Professor Mark Perry’s research focuses on the nexus of technology and law. Professor Perry has taught around the world, including Japan, New Zealand, India, and Australia. He has been an invited and keynote speaker at many international conferences regarding technology and law. Along with invitations to speak, he has organized several global conferences in Canada and been an advisor on other symposia overseas. Professor Perry has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers in both law and technology journals, and he is co-editor of the recent book, Knowledge Policy for the 21st Century: Legal Perspectives. He has supervised over 40 post doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students, all of whom have gone on to work at law firms, industry or in other universities. He is currently a Faculty Fellow with the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies, having held this position since 2003. Most recently, he has been heavily involved in a Genome Canada genomics project as a co-PI, researching the Ethical, Economic, Environmental Legal and Societal aspects of utilising a genomics approach to pest management.

Publications

For a complete list of Mark’s publications, click on this link.

You can also view some of Professor Perry’s research on his SSRN Author page:  http://ssrn.com/author=10510

Selected Publications

Chapters in Books:

  1. Perry, M., “Towards Legal Protection for Digital Rights Management in India: Necessity or Burden?” in Relevance of IPR: Status And Prospects (2011) S. Dominic Keating, Abha Agnihotri and Ajit Varma New Delhi, India: IK International 2011 (in Press).
  2. Perry, M. “Accessing Accessions, Biobanks and Benefit‐Sharing” in The Governance of Research Biobanks Eds. Giovanni Pascuzzi, Umberto Izzo, and Matteo Macilotti, forthcoming 2011 Springer (subject to some edits, peer reviewed).
  3. Perry, M. “The Protection of Rights Management Information:
    modernization or cup half full?” in From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda. Ed. Michael Geist. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010 (peer reviewed).

Books:

  1. Perry, M. and Fitzgerald, B. (eds and  chapters) Knowledge Policy for the 21st Century: Legal Perspectives (Irwin Law, December 2011).
  2. Fitzgerald, B., Perry, M. et al. Creating a Legal Framework for copyright Management of Open Access Within the Australian Academic and Research Sector. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2006.

Peer-Reviewed Papers:

  1. Lutfiyya, H., Ramachandran, K. (G) and Perry, M. “Decentralized Approach to Resource Availability Prediction using Group Availability in a Desktop Grid.” Future Generation Computer Systems (October 2011).
  2. 2. Margoni, T. (P)  and Perry, M. “Ownership in Complex Authorship: Joint Works in Italy and the United States of America.” European Intellectual Property Review, EIPR 2012, 34(1) 22-32.
  3. Margoni, T. (P)  and Perry, M. Scientific and Critical Editions in Europe: another example of copyright law (dis)harmonisation” Canadian Intellectual Property Review, CIPR 2011, 27(1) 157-169
  4. Lutfiyya, H., Ramachandran, K. (G) and Perry, M. “Decentralized Approach to Resource Availability Prediction using Group Availability in a Desktop Grid.” Future Generation Computer Systems (October 2011).
  5. Al-Jazaff, Z. (G), Capretz, M., and Perry, M. “Towards a Unified Trust Framework for Trust Establishment and Trust Based Service Selection.” 24th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (2011).
  6. Al-Jazaff, Z. (G), Capretz, M., and Perry, M. “Trust Metrics for Services and Service Providers.” 6th International Conference on Internet Web Applications and Services (2011) (accepted). Acceptance rate: 31%.
  7. Margoni, T. (P), Perry, M. and Ramachandran, K. (G) “Clarifying Privacy in the Cloud.” Cyberlaws: The Second International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society (2011): pp. 12-17. Acceptance rate:  47%.

Other reviewed contributions:

  1. Lutfiyya, H., Khalaj, K (G) and Perry, M. “A Proxy-based Mobile Grid.” Centre for Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit, Toronto: November 2011 (National Research Council/IBM).
  2. Lutfiyya, H., Perry, M. and Ramachandran, K. (G) “Decentralized Resource Availability Prediction Using P2P Desktop Grids.” Centre for Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit, Toronto: November 2009 (National Research Council/IBM).

Other abstracts and/or papers presented:

  1. Perry, M. “Internalising Externalities for Computing Architectures” Keynote. DigiWorld Conference 2012 (invited).
  2. Perry, M. “Canadian Copyright Reform.” Roundtable. University of Victoria, Wellington New Zealand: July 2010 (invited).
  3. Perry, M. “Regulating Advances in Biotechnology.” Amity University, Delhi, India: July 2010 (invited).
  4. Perry, M. “Accessing Accessions: Legal Issues for Biobanks.” International Conference on Comparative Issues in the Governance of Research Biobanks, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza - Università di Trento: May 2010.
  5. Perry, M. “Deep Pockets, Packets and Harbours: ISP Liabilities.” Current Law Forum, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India: April 2010.

Presentations at professional meetings/workshops and others:

  1. Perry, M. “Research Freedom for University Scholars” The 21st Annual Fulbright Symposium on International Legal Problems, April 2011
  2. Perry, M. “Whither non-proximate communications?” Keynote address at The Seventh Advanced International Conference
on Telecommunications March 2011.
  1. Perry, M. “Trust Metrics for Services and Service Providers” ICIW March 2011
  2. Perry, M. “Intellectual Property Law and the Implications for Genomics Research.” Hegele Genome Canada Scientific Retreat, Ontario, Canada: December 2010 (invited).
  3. Perry, M. “Canadian Copyright Developments” (invited). 300 years of Copyright Shang Hai China (invited).
  4. Perry, M. “300 Years of Rights Management Information” 300 years of Copyright Shang Hai China (invited).
  5. Perry, M. "Selection Patents." Sixth International Symposium on Biocatalysis and Biotechnology, Seoul, South Korea: November 2010 (invited and session chair).
  6. Perry, M. “GEEELS in GAP-M.” Spider Mite Workshop, Montenegro: September 2010 (invited).

Affiliations

Law Society of Upper Canada, Barrister and Solicitor

IEEE

ACM

Areas of Teaching

LS377 Information Technology Law

LS331 Intellectual Property

Biotechnology Law

Research interests

Biotechnology Law

Intellectual Property