In tandem with Internet Ready Fiction's DRM and Contract Law series, this wiki will support a directed study project being conducted in Emerson College's Publishing and Writing Master's program. Over the course of the next three months, this wiki will host a growing annotated bibliography and resource library exploring the means of protection publishers use to manage intellectual property in electronic form as well as the ways in which this protection can be better suited to authors, readers, and a growing market for electronic texts.

TOC

1. Introduction
2. History
   • A Selected History of Copyright
   • Contracts Q & A: Then, Now, Always
3. Current Trends
   • Fair Use
   • The Public Domain
   • Ebooks: The File-Type Wars
   • Electronic Rights
4. Popular Perspectives
   • Bloggers on DRM
   • Bloggers on the State and Future of Publishing
5. Critical Voices(Under Construction)
   • Scholars on DRM
   • Scholars on the State and Future of Publishing
6. Conclusions
   • Conclusions about DRM
   • Conclusions about Electronic Rights and Contracts
   • A Look to the Future of Publishing