Introductory Perspectives

1. Cultural Perspectives on Intellectual Property Law in New Media: Shifting from public to private interests.
2. Legal Perspectives on Intellectual Property Law in New Media: How the products of the mind have evolved to be governed by property law.
3. Information Science Perspectives on Intellectual Property Law in New Media: Rights and responsibilities of information stewards.
4. Types of intellectual property--categories and definitions: Copyright, Trademarks/Trade Dress, Patents, Trade Secrets, Rights of Publicity/Privacy, International Intellectual Property Treaties.
5. Old Media/New Media: Evolutionary distinctions and convergence.
6. Legal research: Finding, reading, and understanding legislation and case law.
7. Layout of the book and its approaches to the topics.

Chapter 1: Copyright
1. Brief history of legislative highlights in copyright law.
2. Recent Judicial History in Copyright Law: “Traditional” Media Cases That Developed Law with New Media Implications
3. Recent Judicial History in Copyright Law: New Media-Related Cases

Chapter 2: Special copyright issues at risk (35 pages)[Claire is working on this chapter]

1. Fair Use
2. Public Domain, term extensions, orphaned works.
3. File Sharing

Chapter 3: Patents

1. Brief history of legislative highlights in patent law.
2. Recent Judicial History in patent Law: “Traditional” Media Cases That Developed Law with New Media Implications
3. Recent Judicial History in patent Law: New Media-Related Cases

Chapter 4: Trademarks & Trade Dress

1. Brief history of legislative highlights in Trademarks & Trade Dress law.
2. Recent Judicial History in Trademarks & Trade Dress: “Traditional” Media Cases That Developed Law with New Media Implications
3. Recent Judicial History in Trademarks & Trade Dress: New Media-Related Cases

Chapter 5: Trade Secrets

1. Brief history of legislative highlights in Trade Secrets law.
2. Recent Judicial History in Trade Secrets: “Traditional” Media Cases That Developed Law with New Media Implications
3. Recent Judicial History in Trade Secrets: New Media-Related Cases

Chapter 6: Rights of Publicity/Privacy

1. Brief history of legislative highlights in Rights of Publicity/Privacy law.
2. Recent Judicial History in Rights of Publicity/Privacy: “Traditional” Media Cases That Developed Law with New Media Implications
3. Recent Judicial History in Rights of Publicity/Privacy: New Media-Related Cases

Chapter 7: International intellectual property law (35 pages) (Ed's working on this)

1. Brief history of legislative changes in international intellectual property law.
2. Brief judicial history in international intellectual property law.
3. New media-related changes and challenges in rights of publicity/privacy: venue and jurisdiction; relationships among treaties and intellectual property law law; emerging economies and the new world order; American imperialism or idealist democracy?

Chapter 8: Digital Rights Management: everything we know and worry over, times 100.

Chapter 9: The Future is Now--Collective Intelligence, Virtuality, and User-Generated Content and Distribution