About Us
New Media Rights (NMR) is a project of the non-profit Utility Consumers' Action Network. NMR seeks to educate young and emerging artists on the legal uses of content (fair use, parody, mash-ups, sampling, re-mixing, etc) and facilitate the creation of new and exciting content that is not currently supported/funded by mainstream business models.
NMR seeks to expose artists to open-source creative tools and new media distribution alternatives, while educating creators on their full rights under current copyright/IP law. These efforts are designed to contribute to new kinds of grassroots creativity that take advantage of a creator's fair use rights under copyright law, and leverage new media in their distribution.
NMR believes no one should hold a monopoly over creativity, and seeks to encourage a vibrant grassroots, non-hierarchical creative community that provides alternatives to traditional, hierarchical media. Over time the use of creative commons and other open source type licensing will result in a more robust public domain.
See the New Media Rights Declaration of a Grassroots Revolution
