# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-geist
# Generated: 2026-09-07T16:44:03.028Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-geist"
name: "Michael Geist"
slug: "michael-geist"
description: "Michael Allen Geist is a Canadian academic, and the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa.\nHe is the editor of four books on copyright law and privacy law, \nand he edits two newsletters on Canadian information technology and privacy law."
tagline: "Canadian legal scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Geist_headshot.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1968-07-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.611736000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2508596/"
    handle:    "nm2508596"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php"
sources:
  - url: "https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Geist"
    title: "Michael Geist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "ميخائيل غيست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "مايكل جيست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Geist"
    title: "Michael Geist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Geist"
    title: "Michael Geist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Geist"
    title: "Michael Geist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Гайст, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q981974"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2975531"
    title: "Michael Geistlinger"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump