Policy Advocacy

New Media Rights' internet user and consumer advocacy efforts were recognized again this week with the appointment of New Media Rights Executive Director Art Neill to a third term on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC). Neill previously has served as the Co-Chair of the CAC’s Broadband Working Group.  Staff Attorney Teri Karobonik will join Neill, serving as New Media Rights’ alternate representative to the CAC for a second term. The FCC committee works to serve the interests of consumers by soliciting their input during the regulatory process and working to improve consumer access to modern communications services.

 “Our appointment to the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee gives us a place where we can share the concerns of internet users and consumers directly with regulators,” said Neill. “Good public policy starts with actually knowing what’s happening on the ground. New Media Rights focuses its efforts on helping a variety of consumers and creators often left out of conversations about public policy that affects them.”

Hyperlocal social platforms, like Yik Yack and Whisper,  are hot right now. But when things turn ugly, or they get into the wrong hands, whose responsibility is it? Who foots the bill for the fallout? The founders and developers who didn't foresee the (negative) possibilities? Parents? Teachers? Consumers? Law enforcement?

Staff Attorney Teri Karobonik will join a panel of other experts on Thursday May 14th to discuss these issues and more at CyberHive's StartUp Breakfast; Unintended Consequences:  Who is responsible when hyperlocal social apps get in the wrong hands?

For more information and to RSVP check out theCyberTECH and CyberHive Startup Incubator Meetup page for the event here.

AS220 is an artist-run organization committed to providing an unjuried and uncensored forum for the arts. AS220 offers artists opportunities to live, work, exhibit and/or perform in its facilities, which include several rotating gallery spaces, a performance stage, a black-box theater, a print shop, a darkroom and media arts lab, a fabrication and electronics lab, a dance studio, a youth program focusing on youth under state care and in the juvenile detention facilities, four dozen affordable live/work studios for artists, and a bar and restaurant.

Click here to read their full story of how New Media Rights helped AS220.

This free workshop is open to the public and we want to thank the San Diego Economic Development Department, whose support made this workshop possible.

New Media Rights is incredibly proud of our many alumni of our internship program. As the end of the year approaches several of our students were recognized for their excellence in extracurricular activities and in the classroom by California Western School of Law. We want to recognize and celebrate the following NMR intern alumni:

• Amy Vaughan(Summer 2014) & Casey Lowe (Fall 2013) were recognized by CWSL as Students of Distinction for 2015.
• Marko Radisavljevic(Summer 2013, Fall 2014) was awarded the Andrea Johnson Telecommunications Award.
• Marlena Balderas (Summer 2013) was awarded the Trial Advocacy Award.
• Nicholas Sabatella(Spring 2015) was recognised as a Anson Levitan Intern for the Legal Aid Society of San Diego.
• Irene Choe (Summer 2014), Robert Prine (Spring 2015) and Andrew Sanchez (Fall 2014) were all inducted into the CWSL Pro Bono Honors Society.
• Nicholas Sabatella(Spring 2015) and Irene Choe (Summer 2014) were inducted into the CWSL Public Service Honors Society.

Congratulations to all of our wonderful alumni interns. To learn more about our intern program including how to apply click here.

The San Diego Sports and Entertainment Sports Lawyers recently invited Staff Attorney, Teri Karobonik, to give a talk on 3D printing and copyright law. Below you can find parts I and II of the video of her presentation, as well as a bonus video where Teri talks about the copyright issues surrounding the now infamous Left Shark takedown.

Also below is the Prezi for her presentation if you’d like to follow along. If you want to learn even more about the legal aspects of 3D printing you can check out our guide here.

Special thanks to Jonathan Bewley for recording the presentation!

Part 1