Stories of those we serve

  • New Media Rights' help is available to local San Diego filmmakers as well as media creators across the country. Maricar Camaya is a San Diego filmmaker interested in international gender and sexuality issues. Maricar briefly discusses how New Media Rights helped him:

  • New Media Rights had the pleasure of working with another great non-profit. Daniel Newman is Co-Founder and Executive Director of MapLight, a nonpartisan nonprofit illuminating the connection between money and politics in unprecedented ways. Mr. Newman briefly discusses how New Media Rights helped Maplight.

  • New Media Rights recently protected blogger Michael Petrelis' speech and commentary regarding another blogger who pretended to be a gay Syrian woman living in Damascus. 

    Mr. Petrelis is just one example of the hundreds of individuals who rely on New Media Rights daily.  His story reminds us that we have the right to criticize and comment on the culture that surrounds us.

  • David Almilli an entrepreneur and the innovator of the Wordsmith App. Below is David's testimony on his experience receiving assistance from New Media Rights, that helped him fight and win against game giant, Hasbro.

  • Sue Wilson needed assistance regarding copyright and fair use. New Media Rights provides resources on copyright law, and may be able to assist you with your copyright and fair use questions, just contact us.

  • Abdul Buul needed assistance with copyright and other issues as a local San Diego independent filmmaker.  New Media Rights has guides that help our local creators, and we may be able to assist you, just contact us!

  • Gene Composer needed assistance on a DMCA takedown notice on Second Life where her artwork had been wrongly removed from the site. New Media Rights helped restore her artwork. New Media Rights has guides on the DMCA, and may be able to assist you with your DMCA takedown questions, just contact us!

  • Andrew Bratt is a local San Diego innovator who was looking for assistance on music licensing and agreements for his innovative startup. New Media Rights has guides on copyright and licensing, and may be able to assist you with your music licensing questions, just contact us!

  • New Media Rights helped Anita Sarkeesian, who is a remix artist and the founder of Feminist Frequency. Anita is a talented remix artist, video editor and feminist cultural critic who created a video that was taken down from Youtube under the label of "inappropriate content". New Media Rights believes that Youtube must create an efficient process so that Youtube users can reach the proper channels to reenable their videos, whether the takedown is for copyright (DMCA takedown), inappropriate content, or other reasons.
  • Filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker shares his story of how New Media Rights has helped him share his film with the world.

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