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Learn how blogs & websites are protected from liability for third party content - August Newsletter

Our August newsletter offers up a wide variety of new resources including guides on CDA 230, net neutrality closed door discussions and more on Drumbeat San Diego. If you would like to receive newsletters sign up on the site here.

UCAN: One phone call can create systemic change

The New Media Rights Studio recently produced this video with for our parent organization UCAN. Filmmaker Roberto Altieri is the Director.

Through your complaints and phone calls to UCAN, your stories create systemic change. Watch the video to learn more about the people who work at UCAN and their unyielding dedication to consumer justice.

A Guide to the Network Neutrality Discussions at the FCC by Marvin Ammori

Law Professor and advocate in Cyberlaw, Marvin Ammori tells us in a guest blog about what could possibly be happening in the "backroom deals" at the FCC around Net Neutrality. Ammori was the lead lawyer on the net neutrality case against Comcast when Comcast blocked peer-to-peer technologies.

How To Find Free and Legal BitTorrent Sites

Free, legally distributed books, movies, and music are just waiting to be discovered online, so it’s a shame that fans aren’t aware of all of the Bittorrent tracker sites where this content is freely available. By downloading from the sites on this list, you’ll support artists and avoid a copyright infringement lawsuit from the RIAA.

New Media Rights supports whistleblower protection acts

New Media Rights is not a stranger to working with whistleblowers.  Many times the greatest revelations and insights into our government and corporations come from these brave individuals, who are willing to sacrifice to let the truth be told

New Media Rights would like to draw your attention to two pieces of legislation that our friends at the Government Accountability Project are working on, and encourage you to support it. We support the legislation, and we encourage you to get involved to support it as well.

Let the Wookie Win: A Short History of Star Wars Litigation

San Diego Comic Con has arrived again! Although New Media Rights provides assistance to creators and internet users nationally, we are firmly rooted in San Diego and supporting local San Diego arts and culture.

Every year, Comic Con brings Storm Troopers fraternizing with Bounty Hunters back to downtown San Diego, and grown women huddled up in Tauntaun sleeping bags back to the Convention Center’s hallways.

To celebrate Star Wars Day and Comic Con returning to San Diego, and to prove learning about the law can be fun (sometimes), we present to you a short history of Star Wars trademark litigation: two cases in which Lucasfilm took people to court over Star Wars and lost.

New Media Rights FCC comments on Broadband Legal Framework and the "Third Way"

New Media Rights' comments to the FCC on the broadband legal framework and the "Third Way" include:

Discussion of concerns regarding content level regulation and its affect on the generativity of the internet as well as copyright regulation.

Classification of terrestrial wireless broadband services and its impact on Consumer Protection.

Legal and Procedural Considerations Regarding the “Third Way”

An Introduction to Drumbeat San Diego: A Collaboration of Mozilla Foundation and New Media Rights

New Media Rights and Mozilla Foundation are working together to create a San Diego Drumbeat event. This event aims to bring together artists, filmmakers, musicians, citizen journalists, lawyers, software developers and other groups dependent on an open Internet. We are seeking input from those interested in participating on how we can make this an excellent event.

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