Faculty Publications


Margaret Ann Wilkinson


I. Intellectual Property, Information and Technology


Wilkinson, M.A. 2011 “Access to Digital Information:  Gift or Right?,” chapter 14 in Mark Perry and Brian Fitzgerald (eds) Knowledge Policy for the 21st Century:  A Legal Perspective (Toronto: Irwin Law), 313-340.

Perry, M., and Wilkinson, M.A. 2010. " The Creation of University Intellectual Property: Confidential Information, Data Protection, and Research Ethics," Canadian Intellectual Property Review 26: 93-122.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2010. "Copyright, Collectives, and Contracts: New Math for Educational Institutions and Libraries" in Michael Geist (ed.) From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda(Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010), 503-540.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2010. "Confidential Information and Privacy-Related Law in Canada and in International Instruments" in Chios Carmody (ed.) Is Our House In Order? Canada's Implementation of International Law (Montreal & Kingston: McGill -Queen's University Press, 2010), 275-311.

Wilkinson, M.A., and Nilsen, K. 2010. "Information Policy and the Canadian Library Association," Felicitor 56(2): 64-67.


Wilkinson, M.A., and Gerolami, N. 2009. "The Author as Agent of Information Policy: the Relationship between Economic and Moral Rights in Copyright,"Government Information Quarterly 26: 321-332

Wilkinson, M.A. 2008. "Battleground between New and Old Orders: Control Conflicts between Copyright and Personal Data Protection," in Ysolde Gendreau (ed.) Emerging Intellectual Property Paradigm -- Perspectives from Canada [Queen Mary Studies in Intellectual Property series edited by Uma Suthersanen] (Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar, 2008), 227-266.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2006. "The Public Interest in Moral Rights Protection," Michigan State Law Review 1: 193-234.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2005. "Filtering the Flow from the Fountains of Knowledge: Access and Copyright in Education and Libraries," in Michael Geist (ed.) In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2005), 331-374. Refereed.

Wilkinson, M.A. and Perry, M. 2005. "Leveraging Knowledge Assets: Can Law Reform Help?," Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 4(1): 1-22.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2004. "Privacy and Personal Data Protection: Albatross for Access?" in Karen Adams and William F. Birdsall (eds) Access to Information in a Digital World. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association, 109-132.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2003-2004. "National Treatment, National Interest and the Public Domain," 1(1&2) University of Ottawa Law and Technology Journal 1 (182): 23-48.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2004. " National Report for Canada: A Triumvirate of Cases from the Supreme Court" ATRIP [Association of Teachers and Researchers in Intellectual Property] Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2004.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2003. “Genie in the Bottle: Intellectual Property and the Flow of Information," Canadian Law Libraries 28: 206-211.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2002. “The Copyright Regime and Data Protection Legislation,” in Ysolde Gendreau (ed.) Copyright Administrative Institutions: Conference Organised by the Centre de recherché en droit public (CRDP) of the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal, 11 & 12 October 2001, (Cowansville, PQ: Les Editions Yvon Blais Inc.) 77-100.

Wilkinson, M.A. and McKechnie, L.E.F. 2002. “ Implementing the Information Rights of Canadian Children,” Canadian Family Law Quarterly 20: 429-465.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2002. “ The challenges of coping with intellectual property regime implementation: observations on Canada and Vietnam,” Intellectual Property Journal 16: 45-92.

Crossan, M. and Wilkinson, M.A. 2002. "iCraveTV.com - A New-Media Upstart",Strategic Management: A Casebook (Toronto: Pearson Education Canada) 146-160.

Crossan, M.; Wilkinson, M.A. and Perry, M. 2002. "Napster, MP3 and the Music Industry", Strategic Management: A Casebook (Toronto: Pearson Education Canada) 129-145.

Muhlstein, A., and Wilkinson, M.A. 2000. Whither Industrial Design. Intellectual Property Journal 14: 1-57.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2000. Copyright in the Context of Intellectual Property: A Survey of Canadian University Policies. Intellectual Property Journal 14 (2): 141-184.

Wilkinson, M.A. 1999. Le droit d'auteur dans le contexte de la propriete intellectuelle: une analyse des politiques universitaires canadiennes. Cahiers de Propriete Intellectuelle 12 (1): 51-94. French translation of "Copyright in the Context of Intellectual Property: A Survey of Canadian University Policies". Translated by Me Stefan Martin du cabinet Byers, Casgain.

Wilkinson, M.A., and Painter, C. 1999. Shifting the Balance of Copyright Control for Photographic Works in Canada. Intellectual Property Journal 13 (3): 353-381.

Wilkinson, M.A. 1997. Perceptual Differences in Approaches to Censorship: Information Intermediaries and the Implementation of Law. The Information Society 13 (2): 185-193.


II. Ethics and Professionalism


Wilkinson, M.A., Walker, C. and Mercer, P. 2005. “Testing Theory and Debunking Stereotypes: Lawyers’ Views on the Practice of Law,” (2005) The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 18 (1): 165-201.

Harris, R. and Wilkinson, M.A. 2004. “Situating Gender: Students’ Perceptions of Information Work” Information Technology and People 17 (1): 71-86.

Wilkinson, M.A. and Harris, R. ;2003. “The Future of the Profession of Librarianship: Constructed or Ordained” Canadian Journal of Library and Information Science 27: 49-78.

Wilkinson, M.A. and Harris, R. 2001. Beyond Librarianship: Are Librarians Becoming Isolated in the New Information Age? Beyond the Web: Technologies, Knowledge and People, Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, 27-29 May, 2001 - Université Laval, 15 pp.

Harris, R. and Wilkinson, M.A. 2001. "(Re)Positioning Librarians: Young people's views on the information sector" ;Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 42: 289-307.

Harris, R. and Wilkinson, M.A. 2001. "Imagining the Knowledge-based Economy: Soon-to-be labour force entrants predict the future of work",Citizenship and Participation in the Information Age (Toronto: Garamond Press) 79-86.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2001. "Information Sources Used by Lawyers in Problem-solving: An Empirical Exploration" Library & Information Science Research 23: 257-276.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2001. "Windows or Bridges: Enriching the Program for Law Students. Not a Box but a Window: Law Libraries and Legal Education in a Virtual World" - University of Toronto.

Wilkinson, M.A. 2001. "Contrasting Incentives for Creativity", Law Forum Working Paper Series. University of Toronto Centre for Innovation Law & Policy - 9 pp.

Wilkinson, M.A., Walker, C., and Mercer P. 2000. Do Codes of Ethics Actually Shape Legal Practice? McGill Law Journal 45 (3): 645-680.

Wilkinson, M.A., and Wilkinson, J.P. 1997. Plotting Conflict. Library Administration and Management 11 (4): 205-216.

Pettigrew, K., and Wilkinson, M.A. 1997. Control of Community Information: An Analysis of Roles. Library Quarterly 66 (4): 373-407.

Mercer, P., M.A. Wilkinson, and Strong, T. 1996. Mentor, Mercenary or Melding: An Empirical Enquiry into the Role of the Lawyer. Loyola University Chicago Law 28 (2): 373-418.

Mercer, P., M.A. Wilkinson, and Strong, T. 1996. The Practice of Ethical Precepts: Dissecting Decision-Making by Lawyers. The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence ;9 (1): 141-160.

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