Reconciling counter-culture with copyright

With his dual role as Brazilian minister of culture and as a touring music star, Gilberto Gil can reconcile the great divide of the 21st century: the people's hunger for free culture on the Internet and the artists who make a living from it. "This is a political movement much like the counter-cultural movement of the 60s," he told a jam-packed room on Friday at the closing of McGill University's three-day conference on Canadian identity called "Are We American?"