Selected Publications

• forthcoming: “Fair Dealing in Canadian Digital Environments – a Historical Introduction” in Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online (Rosemary J.Coombe, et. al., eds, University of Toronto Press.)
• Samuel Trosow, Michael B. McNally, Laura E. Briggs, Cameron Hoffman, Cassandra D. Ball, Adam Jacobs, and Bridget Moran. “Technology Transfer and Innovation Policy at Canadian Universities: Opportunities and Social Costs” SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant Report (May 15, 2012) [link to full text]
• User-generated online content 1: overview, current state and context (co-authored by Pamela J. McKenzie, Jacquelyn Burkell, Caroline Whippey, Lola Wong, Samuel Trosow  and Michael B. McNally) First Monday Volume 17, No. 6 (June 4, 2012). [full text]
• User-generated online content 2: policy implications (co-authored by Michael B. McNally, Samuel E. Trosow, Lola Wong, Caroline Whippey, Pamela McKenzie, and Jacquelyn Burkell)  First Monday Volume 17, No. 6 (June 4, 2012). [full text]
• “The copyright policy paradox: Overcoming competing agendas within the digital labour movement” Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization Volume 10, issue 3/4. [full text]
• Mobilizing User-Generated Content for Canada’s Digital Advantage (co-authors Jacquelyn Burkell, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Pamela McKenzie, Michael B. McNally, Caroline Whippey and Lola Wong) Final Report for SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant (Dec 1, 2010). [link to full text]
• “Bill C-32 and the Educational Sector: Overcoming Impediments to Fair Dealing”, Chapter 18 (pp 519-546) in Michael Geist (ed), Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda: From Radical Extremism to Balanced Copyright (Irwin Law, 2010).
• “A Holistic Model of Information Policy .” Feliciter 56:2(46) 2010. [full text]
• “Why Copyright Fair-Dealing Needs Flexibility .” Lawyers Weekly 29: 41(March 12, 2010).
• “Law and Technology Theory: Bringing in Some Economic Analysis.” Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 2010 30: 30-32.
• Copyright Consultation Submission. Osgoode Hall Rev of Law and Policy 2(2):169. (November 2009) [full text]
• Internet FIltering in the Public Library: ‘Censorship’ or ‘Customer Service’? OLA Access Magazine (July 2008)   [expanded version]
• Canadian Copyright Law: A Citizen’s Guide (co-authored with Laura Murray, Between the Lines, 2007) [Introduction] [Chapter 1: Copyright's Rationales]
• 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 Kirsti Nilsen, 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).
• “Sui Generis Database Legislation: A Critical Analysis” Yale Journal of Law and Technology. 7: 94 (Spring 2005).
• “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). [full text]
• “Databases and the Fields of Law: Are There New Divisions of Labor?” Law Library Journal 96(1):63-93. [full text]
• “Terminology is Important,” (in Perspectives column: “Patrons, Customers, Users, Clients: Who are They and What Difference Does it Make What we Call Them?”) Public Libraries 43(2): 86-87 (March/April 2004).
• “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, Sigrun Klara Hannesdottir 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]