Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide

Laura Murray is an Associate Professor in the English Department of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and creator of the website www.faircopyright.ca.

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS).

Before coming to Western, I was a law librarian at the Boalt Hall Law Library at the University of California at Berkeley and before that I was in private law practice in California. My doctoral work in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA focused on information policy issues.

At FIMS I have taught courses  in Information Policy, Perspectives in Library and Information Science, the Political Economy of Information, Legal Issues for Information Professionals,  and in Winter 2010 I will be offering a new course called Copyright, Creativity, Technology and the Music Industry. In the law school I have taught courses in Intellectual Property and Information law as well as the graduate Legal Theory seminar and Urban Law. This coming year I will be teaching International IP and Comparative Copyright.  

During the 2007-08 year I was on sabbatical leave, serving as the Visiting Faculty Scholar-in-Residence at the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) in Ottawa. I am a member of the FIMS Digital Labour group and also serve on CAUT's Librarians Committee, ClA's Copyright Working Group and Intellectual Freedom Advisory Committee.

I live in London Ontario where I serve as Chair of the City's Housing Advisory Committee.  

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