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About Us

Submitted by New Media Rights on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 12:27
The internet has dramatically increased each individuals' ability to share their ideas, opinions and creativity with the rest of the world. That power to create and share instantly is limited by a seemingly insurmountable responsibility: user/creators must somehow find a way to navigate the same complicated maze of laws that the traditional, corporate media companies spend millions of dollars to comply with.

New Media Rights is a non-profit organization that provides one-to-one assistance to internet users, artists, non-profits, startups, and anyone else who creates and shares their work online. When not helping individual internet users, we particularly focus on assisting organizations that provide better access to public information, more business and government accountability, or new perspectives to the cultural landscape. 

We offer

  • freely available copyright, licensing, trademark, and other legal expertise to internet users 
  • free assistance to respond to unfair content takedowns, access limitations, and account terminations for internet users
  • proactively advocate and educate to protect wireless internet users from new abuses in the industry, and track market problems with wireless content services, carriers, and other gatekeepers.
  • free assistance to help creators understand the legal reuse of content (fair use, parody, mash-ups, sampling, re-mixing, etc)
  • public interest advocacy before federal regulatory agencies (Copyrighti, USPTO)
  • a free media studio for citizen creators and nonprofits of all types
  • technological know-how and assistance

We want to thank those who make our services possible, particularly our individual donors, including our founders, and the California Consumer Protection Foundation.

NMR encourages widespread adoption of open-source creative tools and new media distribution alternatives, specifically by helping consumer/creators/internet users (now one in the same) understand their legal rights online.

Our philosophy is to listen carefully to the needs of those we serve, and shape our services and advocacy accordingly.

New Media Rights (NMR) is affiliated with the non-profit Utility Consumers' Action Network and a partner with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet Society in the Online Media Legal Network

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