CPUC AT&T T-Mobile merger Public Hearings and Workshops
Here are the in-person meetings that we encourage you to attend in order to comment on the highly detrimental AT&T T-mobile merger. If it is impossible for you to be there in person please submit a...
View ArticleJuly Newsletter: New Media Rights takes on the Future of Media Report and...
{contact.first_name}In our last newsletter we shared with you that we filed a request with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to meet their responsibilities and investigate the harms of...
View ArticleAT&T and T-Mobile merger factsheet
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) are reviewing the $39 billion dollar merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. According to the Center for...
View ArticleCloud Music Services Defend Their Right to Exist Against Record Labels
Last month, supporters of cloud music services had a victory when MP3Tunes.com prevailed over EMI Group Ltd. in a lawsuit. The U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York found that these...
View ArticleNMR Testimonial: Dan Newman of Maplight
Daniel Newman is Co-Founder and Executive Director of MapLight, a nonpartisan nonprofit illuminating the connection between money and politics in unprecedented ways.How did you find out about New Media...
View ArticlePatent reform moves in the right direction but there are still barriers for...
President Barack Obama recently signed a patent reform bill as part of his job stimulus plan saying, "We have to do everything we can to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit wherever we find it," and...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court Declines to hear ASCAP Appeal
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) relating to whether digital downloads should be treated as public...
View ArticleNMR tracks two upcoming trends in copyright reform
New Media Rights has been tracking recent trends in copyright legislation and enforcement. 2011 has already been filled with scores of individuals being sued in the Far Cry cases for filesharing and...
View ArticleNet Neutrality Rules: Illogical logic governs what ISPs can block
As we recently discussed, the FCC’s new Net Neutrality rules forbid Internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking access to certain materials. These rules make clear that “fixed broadband” ISPs...
View ArticleHow Apple, Google, and your wireless carrier control your phone
You own your cellphone. So you should be able to do with it what you want, right? Wrong, unfortunately. Apple, Google, your wireless carrier, and others all control what you can do with your phone....
View ArticleTeens make parody video, but Sony tells them to beat it… just beat it!
It’s been a year since the Lansdowne Library Teen Advisory Board created a video to promote reading based on Michael Jackson’s iconic “Beat It,” video. After it was posted on YouTube, Sony took down...
View ArticleNew Media Rights tells a content bully to beat it... Just Beat It!
*|MC:SUBJECT|**/ New Media Rights tells a content bully to beat it... Just Beat It! Is this email not displaying correctly?View it in your browser. It’s been a year since the Lansdowne Library Teen...
View ArticleThe impact of California’s new Do Not Track law on innovators
California has been busy passing a multitude of new internet laws as we’ve outlined in a few previous blog posts. The most recent law made us pause here at NMR because it directly affects the...
View ArticleIt's Copyright Week!
It’s copyright week! New Media Rights is joining with EFF and a host of other organizations to show why copyright law matters, and some of the challenges the law faces in the digital age. Stay tuned...
View ArticleThe Public Domain shouldn't cost $165 an hour.
At New Media Rights we work to make the public domain more accessible. We feature guides to help you figure out when something falls into the public domain and we have a great guide that will help you...
View ArticleCelebrating Copyright Week with Films, Stories, and more!
This is the reaction we got from Radio KSCR's Jowanna Lewis at the New Media Expo when we told her about the services we provide to creators and internet users. We want to thank everyone who donated...
View ArticleHappy fair use Friday!
Fair use is one of the most important parts of copyright law. At New Media Rights we help guide creators through fair use on a daily basis. We also help innovative artists fight back against content...
View ArticleOn the anniversary of the SOPA blackout we look forward to ensure we get...
On the anniversary of the SOPA blackout we recognize that copyright reform is badly needed for the digital age. This reform need not, and should not, take the form of any radical evisceration of...
View ArticleThe curious case of the YouTube Bots- updated 2-19-14
UPDATE: 2-19-14It could be entirely coincidental but on February 14th the official YouTube Creators blog had a post about bots inflation on YouTube. You can read the whole blog here. The blog certainly...
View ArticleWe’re off to SXSW!
Photo Some rights reserved by alexdecarvalhoThanks to your votes, New Media Rights is heading to SXSW interactive in Austin, Texas. On Tuesday March 11th at 12:30PM in the Driskill Hotel Ballroom we’ll...
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