Jonathan M. Barnett is the Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, and director of the law school's Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program. He specializes in antitrust, competition, and intellectual property law and policy, with a focus on monetization strategies and organizational structures in content and technology markets. He has published widely in scholarly and policy publications and comments regularly on innovation policy matters in the press and at professional conferences. Prior to academia, he practiced corporate law at a leading international law firm, specializing in mergers and acquisitions.

Introduction

Part One. Concepts and Background
1. Making and Unmaking IP Rights
2. The Accidental Alliance

Part Two. Unmaking Copyright Law
Introduction to Part Two
3. The Political Economy of Copyright Law
4. The Rise of Unfair Use
5. How Courts Rewrote the DMCA
6. The Hesitant Return of Reason

Part Three. Unmaking Patent Law
Introduction to Part Three
7. The Political Economy of Patent Law
8. The Patent Litigation Explosion and Other Patent Horribles
9. Patent Trolls and the Demise of the Injunction
10. The Patent Holdup Conjecture
11. China and the Accidental Alliance

Part Four. The Hidden Costs of Free Stuff
12. How Free Stuff Distorts Innovation and Competition
13. How Weak IP Rights Shield Incumbents and Impede Entry

14. Free Stuff Gets Dangerous
15. Free Stuff and the Decline of the Free Press

Part Five. Remaking IP Rights
16. The Inevitability of Property Rights
17. Reinvigorating IP Rights and the Innovation Ecosystem

Conclusion