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Meet the NMR Staff

Art Neill

Job Title: 
Founder / Executive Director
Joined NMR in: 
October 2005

Art is the founder of New Media Rights, and practices public interest law in the areas of internet, intellectual property, and communications law.

Art is also an adjunct professor of law at California Western School of Law teaching the course "Social Media and the Law" (primarily focused on Internet, Intellectual Propertyi, licensing, and online publishing law).

In 2011, Art was appointed as a member of the Federal Communication Commission's Consumer Advisory Committee.

New Media Rights provides and pro bono legal resources, and assistance regarding intellectual property, licensing, and other legal issues that arise with new technologies and media, along with a free media studio .

Publications:

"Suing John Doe: A new wave of filesharing lawsuits" Fall 2011 Journal of Internet Law (Aspen Publishers)

"Social Media and the Law: Here Comes Everybody!"  2010 May CEB Business Law Quarterly (A publication of the University of California and the State Bar of California)

Interviews:

Talks:

  • October 2011 Basics of copyright and how Creative Commonsi licenses work - San Diego City College
  • August 2011 Creative Commons for Low Power & Internet Radio stations at the Media Arts Center San Diego with Activist San Diego, Prometheus Radio, and the World Beat Center
  • April 2011 Panelist at National Conference for Media Reform for Session on Copyrighti and Intellectual Property Law
  • February 2011 Drumbeat San Diego - "Basics of Copyright & How Creative Commons Licenses Work"
  • May 2010 Media Arts Center filmmaker meetup: "How Creative Commons licenses work"
  • March 2010 LA Media Reform Conference at Occidental College: "How the Law empowers citizen media: Fair Use and Creative Commons licenses"
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Shaun Spalding

Job Title: 
Advocate
Joined NMR in: 
May 2010

Shaun Spalding - Photo Credit Ryan Moulton ( rymo.org )

Shaun Spalding is an attorney Advocate at New Media Rights. Having worked as a commercial video producer, semi-professional graphic designer, and hobbiest fiction writer, he likes the idea of working with passionate artists and entrepreneurs. Shaun is primarily interested in the ways standard entertainment and online business practices often deviate from the letter of the law. When he's not working at New Media Rights, Shaun writes screenplays, loves graphic novels, and lives a charmed life.

Chrissie Himes

Job Title: 
Fellow
Joined NMR in: 
August 2011

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Chrissie is a recent law school graduate and former New Media Rights Intern turned New Media Rights Fellow. She has a strong interest in the music industry.

Dan Terzian

Job Title: 
Fellow
Joined NMR in: 
September 2011

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Dan Terzian graduated from UCLA School of Law and currently lectures at Peking University School of Transnational Law. He knows little Chinese but is fluent in saying, "Hello. I'm Californian."

He reads The New Yorker, McSweeney's and the X-Men back catalog. He believes the future is now. And tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow. And he also believes that the law struggles to keep pace with technology.

Laura Patrick

Job Title: 
Legal Clerk - Video Project
Joined NMR in: 
January 2012

Laura is a third-year law student at the University of San Diego of Law pursuing a concentration in Intellectual Propertyi. She is a writer for USD School of Law’s Newspaper Motions and a first-round draft pick for USD’s Intramural Softball League. She was born and raised in Charleston, SC, and is doing her best to prove that southerners are people, too. When she’s not absorbed in cyberspace, she likes to read, write, and scream loudly at football games.  

Courtney Byrne

Job Title: 
Legal Clerk
Joined NMR in: 
January 2012

Courtney is a second year law student with an interest in business ideation, brand and strategy development, and trademark, consumer, and advertising law. Regarding new media, she has positive feelings about the participatory culture we are in, the shift away from passive consumption, and the availability of creative surplus. She believes strongly in a quote she once read: "The internet means never having to ask permission before trying something new."

Ashley Gray

Job Title: 
Legal Clerk
Joined NMR in: 
January 2012

Ashley is a second year student at the University of San Diego School of Law.  She is interested in Intellectual Propertyi, especially relating to copyright, open source software and net neutrality.

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