Lisa Macklem

King's University College (Canada)

Lisa Macklem, JD, MA, LLM, is a legal scholar and policy advocate. Lisa’s research focuses on digital content delivery, IP, and the Entertainment Industry. She focuses on issues of access, copyright, and technology. In May of 2025, she was an invited intervener at the CRTC hearings on Canadian Content. Previous appearances and interventions have included consultations on Copyright review, duration, and AI. Lisa has been interviewed on Canadian and Indian television and Canadian radio on numerous issues touching on the intersection of the Entertainment industry and the law, AI, the Online Streaming Act, and copyright. She was cited by The New York Times on Canadian Media suing OpenAI. "Fair Dealing, Online Teaching and Technological Neutrality: Lessons From the COVID-19 Crisis,” cowritten with Samuel Trosow is in the Intellectual Property Journal Vol. 32, Iss. 3 (Sept 2020) and was cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in York University v. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright), 2021 SCC 32. Her chapter “Public Interest, Human Rights, and Copyright: The Road Less Travelled?” is in Intellectual Property Futures: Exploring the Global Landscape of IP Law and Policy (University of Ottawa Press, 2025). Lisa is a member of the OBA, CBA, ABA, and BHBA.