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New Media Rights supports whistleblower protection acts
Submitted by New Media Rights on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 18:36
Legal and How-to Guides for Citizen Media Creators and Online Publishing
New Media Rights Guides are available to browse, read and learn from. They are organized by category and title.
Webtreats Glowing Neon Social Media Icons by Flickr user webtreats used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
Best Practices for Creative Commons attributions - how to attribute works you reuse under a Creative Commons license
Submitted by New Media Rights on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 13:49
New Media Guides Legal and How-to guides
Welcome to our Legal and How-to resource center. We hope these guides will help you, the user/creator, to learn about
- Rights and laws on the Internet
- How to use new technologies and social media in your own life
Essential Free and Open Source Software Toolkit
Submitted by New Media Rights on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 16:49H.R. 1464 — The “OER Bill”
The open educational resources movement has been picking up steam lately, even attracting the attention of legislators. What’s hot in the new Persian year (aka the start of spring) is the recently introduced “OER Bill“. What’s that, you say?
Well in its own words, it’s a bill “To require Federal agencies to collaborate in the development of freely-available open source educational materials in college-level physics, chemistry, and math, and for other purposes.”
Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase Winners Announced
Once again the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase has selected great creative works to include in the latest version of Ubuntu, this version due out in April. As with the previous Show Case, all of the winning entries will be bundled with the Ubuntu release and licensed under a Creative Commonsi Attribution-ShareAlike license. This time, however, there were three categories, so three winners. The categories are: Audio, Video, and Image.
New Media Rights to speak at California Western's Entertainment and Sports Law Society Spring Symposium
Submitted by JLMetcalf on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 12:39Spring Symposium Schedule
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Purchase Tickets at http://www.ticketderby.com/innerindex.php?eventid=225
Students - $20
Attorneys - $25 (CLE Credits offered)
9:30-10:00 a.m. Registration
10:00-10:45 The San Diego Firm Setting: More Personal Representation Outside LA
Rodney L. Donohoo, Law Offices of Rodney L. Donohoo
Abbas Kazerooni, Esq., Partner @ Kazerouni Law Group
10:45-11:00 Networking Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 MySpace & You Tube are Forcing the Law to Catch Up with Technology
Brooke Wentz, The Rights Workshop
A citizen's legal guide to using Creative Commons licenses
Submitted by New Media Rights on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 13:20
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