Samuel Trosow is an Associate Professor at Western University with a joint appointment in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) and the Faculty of Law. Prior to joining the UWO Faculty, he was a law librarian at University of California Berkeley’s Boalt Hall Law School, and his doctorate at UCLA in Library Science focused on information policy issues. Professor Trosow is currently a Principal Network Investigator and Theme Leader in the Graphics, Animation and New Media (GRAND) NCE. He is the co-author of Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide (with Laura Murray, Between the Lines, 2007), and maintains a blog at samtrosow.wordpress.com. He is currently a member of the Librarians Committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) and is a frequent speaker on copyright and other information policy issues.