Edward Lee Lamoureux has published
Intellectual Property Law and Interactive Media: Free for a Fee (with Steve Baron and Clair Stewart), Peter Lang Pub., 2009.

The digitizing of intellectual property and the ease and speed with which it can be copied, transmitted, and globally shared poses legal challenges for traditional owners of content rights, for those who create new media, and for those who consume new media content.

This informative and accessible introductory text, written for students of media and communication, provides a comprehensive overview of the complex legal landscape surrounding new media and intellectual property rights. The authors present theoretical backgrounds, legislative developments, and legal case histories in intellectual property law. Copyright, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, personal torts (rights of publicity, defamation, privacy) are examined in U.S., international, and virtual contexts. Suitable as a primary text for courses focusing on intellectual property law in multimedia/new media, this book will also be useful for courses in media law. The information presented in the book is supplemented by freeforafee.com, a blog providing updates to students and instructors alike. A glossary of key terms is also provided.

Edward Lee Lamoureux is Associate Professor of Multimedia and Communication at Bradley University. He received a Ph.D. in rhetoric and communication from the University of Oregon. He has testified as an expert in Library of Congress-sponsored intellectual property law hearings, has served as the editor of the Journal of Communication and Religion, and has published and presented numerous academic papers.

Steven L. Baron is a partner at the Chicago law firm of Mandell Menkes. He received his J.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is a frequent author and lecturer on topics involving media and intellectual property and is an adjunct professor at Bradley University, teaching a course on intellectual property law at the Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts.

Claire Stewart is Head of Digital Collections at the Northwestern University Library. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Saint Mary’s College, and an M.L.I.S. from Dominican University. She is a campus expert on copyright, digitization, and multimedia collections.

Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D.
Associate Professor, Multimedia Program
and Department of Communication
Co-Director, Bradley University New Media Center
1501 W. Bradley, Peoria IL 61625
office: 309-677-2378 cell: 309-635-2605
AIM/IM & skype: dredleelam
Second Life: Professor Beliveau

I know Ed – Great guy, great rock singer, knows his stuff!

We are pleased to welcome Maggie Tsai, co-founder and Vice President of diigo - http://www.diigo.com – a free tool that does Social Bookmarking, but much much more- it is a research and collaboration tools that many of you likely use now. Maggie will share with us how educators are using diigo and hopefully share some new features coming in the next version. To learn more about diigo, please see their YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A

Also, we are making access to these sessions by dropping registration! So you can go directly next week to the NMC Connect Seminar Room at http://nmc.na3.acrobat.com/diigo/

Before then, we hope you will complete out new Two Minute Survey on Social Bookmarking  — and share it with your colleagues!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pag7Bc_zGya4MSj4bfBz_cQ

Also, for future planning, we are pleased to welcome Howard Rheingold as a guest for a Connect@NMC session Monday, Feb 10 (9AM Pacific) for a conversation about his Social Media Classroom.

With that in mind we’ve decided to launch our own TLT YouTube video channel. At the site you can find videos from our events that we’ve captured the last few years as well as other interesting items. We’re still exploring all the ways we can use the YouTube channel and would be thrilled to hear your thoughts. For now, head over to the new TLT YouTube channel and take a look!

The two sections I’d like to do a little custom template work for are the ETS Staff page and the ETS R&D page. I’d like to drive some of the page elements from content being published blog style with categories. Keep watching as we’ll be updating it on a regular basis.

Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society, will be the keynote speaker, and will be introduced by President Graham Spanier. Lessig is the author of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, The Future of Ideas, and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. He chairs the Creative Commons project, and serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. He is also a columnist for Wired. For more information on Lessig and his work, see http://symposium.tlt.psu.edu/keynote/.

The Symposium will feature concurrent sessions presented by Penn State faculty and staff describing how they have used technology to enrich teaching, learning, and research. Topics will include social computing tools, new ways for teams to collaborate, virtual worlds, and digital expression. Hands-on learning sessions will allow attendees to try out blogging, podcasting, and student response systems. In addition, they can meet members of the teams who support various Penn State technology initiatives.

A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. For more details and to register, visit http://symposium.tlt.psu.edu/. The Symposium is sponsored by Teaching and Learning with Technology, a unit of Information Technology Services.

Laurie and Mike will lead a discussion of how the Penn State Libraries should prepare for the service changes that will be needed, and maybe are already needed in an environment where more and more of our collections have been digitized. Will our services be the “value-added” element that defines our role in the open information environment? How will we adjust our models for access and delivery of content? What will the library “brand” be?

January 10, 2007
Mann Assembly Room
Pattee/Paterno Library
NOON to 1:00 p.m.
Michael Furlough, Asst. Dean for Scholarly Communications
Laura Probst, Head of Public Services