Dr. Olivier Charbonneau

Olivier Charbonneau is a Senior Librarian at Concordia University (Montréal, Canada), having joined this institution as an Associate Librarian in 2003.

Olivier provides library services, namely reference, instruction and collection development, for the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University since 2003. He was Interim Head of Periodicals, Media and InterLibrary Loans (2008-2009) and Interim Head, Vanier Library (2024-  ).

Olivier's research interests live at the intersection of legal and information studies. His doctoral dissertation at the Faculté de droit at the Université de Montréal explored the intersections of various institutional arrangements, most notably between copyright exceptions and licensing practices of Canadian academic libraries. He is actively involved in the library and cultural community since the last millennia, mobilizing his research to discuss questions of open access, common pool resources, social media and the digital transformation of artistic, cultural or creative industries. Over his career, he has assisted institutions in Canada, USA and Europe with the allocation of over 50 million dollars in artistic, cultural or research funding. More recently, he is mobilizing his research on copyright with the Cinémathèque Québécoise's digital transformation.

In addition to his doctoral degree in law, he holds two masters degrees from Université de Montréal, one in information sciences and another in law, as well as an undergraduate degree in commerce from McGill University. He has kept a research blog since 2005 in French at www.culturelibre.ca and a work blog since 2011 in English at OutFind.ca.

Research interests

Copyright and other legal issues (privacy, access to information, etc.) in information science
Fair dealings and exceptions to copyright
Licensing
Open access
Web 2.0
Law and Economics / Analyse économique du droit
Law and Sociology / Sociologie du droit
Autopoiesis and Law

Olivier Charbonneau's publications are available in Spectrum as well as on his blog culturelibre.ca.