Media:
- NY Rockland Radio appearance talking about New Media Rights and new media creation.
- San Diego Public Access TV appearance, speaking on Net Neutrality: http://apps.attainresponse.com/MediaF5/liveRecording.htm?id=16489
Mera's knowledge of media policy, communication rights, digital rights and open web advocacy has led her to work on communications for New Media Rights. Mera focuses on communications strategy and implementation for New Media Rights services and digital rights advocacy.
At New Media Rights, Mera creates blogs, builds parts of the website, and produces videos. Mera also works on contacts management and does outreach to local and national groups to build New Media Rights' network and to partner with local and national allies. Mera's outreach work includes utilizing social media platforms to engage with diverse audiences and writing the New Media Rights newsletter.
Mera has worked to build Drumbeat San Diego since the Summer of 2010. As lead Drumbeat organizer Mera has organized volunteers, meetings and documented the work on the Mozilla Wiki and on the New Media Rights site on our main Drumbeat page.
Mera's academic backgound is in Communications and International Studies. She received her BA in NYC from Marymount Manhattan College.
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Shaun Spalding is an intellectual property and privacy attorney with an interest in digital entertainment transactions, data-sharing agreements, and licensing.
Shaun has represented a handful of the top-40 most watched and most subscribed to Youtube channels in the world. Shaun is also a professor at California Western School of Law teaching an Internet and Media Law clinical course. Outside of academia, over 10,000 working creators have enrolled in his online courses aimed at teaching legal basics to creatives. The LAGD: Legal Assistance for Game Developers video series which he developed, directed, and produced with New Media Rights has over 350,000 views and counting.
Before making contracts and online education his main hobbies, Shaun worked as a commercial video producer making brand-integrated videos for companies like SWISS Airlines, Sharp Television, the Motion Picture Association of America, and Henkel.
teri@newmediarights.org
Teri Karobonik is a Staff Attorney at New Media Rights where she works with all manner of creative individuals on a daily basis on preventative, transactional and pre-litigation matters. In addition to one on one assistance Teri actively engages in policy work with the copyright office as well as educational work. Teri is also an adjunct professor of law at California Western School of Law where she co-teaches the Internet & Media Law Clinic. In 2015 Teri was appointed as an Internet Law & Policy Foundry Fellow in recognition of her work as an early career leader in the tech law and policy space.
Teri received her J.D. from Santa Clara Law in 2012. While she was at Santa Clara Teri earned numerous awards for her work in IP and Privacy including a Pro-Bono Award for her work as the International Legal Intern at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in the summer of 2011. Teri received her B.A. with honors in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona in 2009. She was also inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.For more on Teri, check out her LinkedIn profile here and her SSRN page here.
Professional Affiliations
Publications
Interviews
Talks
August 2013- VidCon Anaheim, CA- The (IP) Law of the Land
July 2013- Gam3rCon San Diego, CA- Copyrights and Copywrongs for Internet Content
Hannah is a third year student at California Western School of Law, interested in pursuing a career working in Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law. She is particularly interested in the application and development of copyright law in online media and remix culture.
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.
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.
Ashley is a second year student at the University of San Diego School of Law. She is interested in Intellectual Property, especially relating to copyright, open source software and net neutrality.
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