Jonathan Barnett
Director at USC’s Law, Media, Entertainment & Technology Program
Jonathan Barnett is Director of the USC Gould School of Law’s Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program. He is author of the recently published The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property, a critically-acclaimed book that has generated discussion about the IP system. He also wrote Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property. Barnett specializes in antitrust, intellectual property, and corporate and business law, with a focus on innovation policy and strategy in technology markets. Barnett has published in the Harvard Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Yale Law Journal, Journal of Legal Studies, and other scholarly journals. He joined USC in 2006 and was a visiting professor at NYU School of Law in 2010.