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.
Samuel Trosow is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. He is jointly appointed in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies.
Information Flows and the Transfer of Knowledge: A Conceptual Approach for Policy Makers (McGill University, 2006 Meredith Lectures).
Constraining Public Libraries: The World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services(co-authored with KirstiNilsen, Scarecrow Press, 2006).
Changing Landscape of Academic Libraries and Copyright Policy: Interlibrary Loans, Electronic-Reserves,and Distance Education.” Chapter 14 (pp 375-407) in Michael Geist, (ed.) “In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law.” (Irwin Law, 2005, available online at: http://209.171.61.222/PublicInterest/Two_10_Trosow.pdf).
“The Ownership and Commodification of Legal Knowledge: Using Social Theory of the Information Age as a Tool for Policy Analysis,”Manitoba Law Journal 30(3): 417 (2004).
"Copyright Protection for Federally Funded Research: Necessary Incentive or Double Subsidy?" Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 22: 613 (2004).
“Databases and the Fields of Law: Are There New Divisions of Labor?” Law Library Journal 96(1):63-93.[full text]
“Fast-Track Trade Authority and the Free Trade Agreements: Implications for Copyright Law,” Canadian Journal of Law & Technology 2(2): (July 2003). [full text]
"The Illusive Search for Justificatory Theories: Copyright, Commodification and Capital," Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence XVI(2): 217-41 (July 2003).
“Fair-Use in the Digital Age” in Global Issues in 21st Century Research Librarianship, SigrunKlaraHannesdottir ed. (Helsinki, NORDINFO 2002).
“Jurisdictional Disputes and the Unauthorized Practice Of Law: New Challenges for Law Librarianship,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 20 (4): 1-18 (Fall 2001).
“Standpoint Epistemology as an Alternative Methodology for Library and Information Science.” Library Quarterly 71 (3): 360-382. (July 2001).[Abstract]
“When is a Use a Fair Use? University Liability for Educational Copying,” portal: Libraries and the Academy, 1.1 (2001): 47-57.
“Organizational Theory in Library and Information Science Education,” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 41(2): 129-142 (Spring 2000).
“Economic Analysis and Copyright Law: Are New Models Needed in the Digital Age?” Legal References Services Quarterly 17 (1 & 2):: 161-194 (1999).[Abstract]
Biography
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.
