This new – and in its second edition – book captures a comprehensive treatment of intellectual property law and interactive media. It covers emerging trends such as the international contexts of games/virtual worlds, legislative and judicial history, and the efforts to balance public and private interests. It explains procedural issues in connection with various forms of intellectual property management (copyright, patent, open source/open publishing, trademark, trade secrets, personal torts – right of publicity, privacy, defamation – and digital rights management) and registration.

This text is a companion to the 2nd edition of Intellectual Property Law And New Media: Free for a Fee. Moving the coverage of case analysis to this separate volume, enables the authors to focus their attention on important trial and legal procedures that apply extant law to, largely, new circumstances.