Newsletter: Here's what we've accomplished this year with your support!

Here's the work we've accomplished with your support in 2018! Also, you'll have a chance to continue to protect fair use, net neutrality, and privacy through our upcoming Giving Tuesday (November 27) challenge with Crowdrise. We've worked hard this year to provide important legal services to hundreds of artists, creators, and innovators throughout the world. Here's a glance at some of the work we've done this year:

Advocated for the protection of net neutrality by urging California legislators to enact state-based Net Neutrality protections.
Adapted and licensed our Fair Use App for the University of California system to help UC faculty and staff understand and leverage copyright and fair use in their projects.
Reached our 1000th sale of our book Don’t Panic :) A Legal Guide (in plain English) for Small Businesses and Creative Professionals. The book is now adopted at colleges across the country including the Berklee College of Music. You can get your copy of Don’t Panic today!
Wrote about some of the highlights and potential implications of the new California Consumer Privacy Act in Forbes.
Provided legal services to filmmakers and nonprofits seeking legal advice related to their social impact films and projects, including a film about the history of gay bars in San Diego, and a community storytelling series.
Held free legal consultation sessions at Nest Cowork for startups seeking assistance with copyright, trademark, contract and other legal issues.
Launched two consumer privacy guides. One is a guide for consumers to protect themselves from unwanted calls and texts, and the other is a best practices guide for small businesses.
Teamed up with EFF and the Organization for Transformative Works to comment and testify in favor of DMCA Anti-circumvention exemptions that protect fair use before the US Copyright Office. The Office renewed and expanded important fair use exemptions for video creators based on our input.
Brought our legal knowledge to the community with presentations and workshops at the 2018 Association of Healthcare Journalists annual meeting in Phoenix, the NLGJA 2018 National Convention in Palm Springs, the Practising Law Institute , the Alliance for Community Media National Conference , the San Diego Press Club, Vlog Summit 2018, SD Urban Beats, the SD Media Pros, San Diego State, San Diego City College, and San Diego Continuing Education.
Participated in the DuckDuckGo Privacy Challenge and raised $35,471 and received a $40,000 grant from the Rose Foundation to support our privacy work. Thank you to all of our supporters!

You can read more about the work we've accomplished over the last year by visiting our 2018 Accomplishments page.

The Copyright Office is modernizing the online registration system, and we want to hear from you!
We are currently working on a regulatory proceeding about modernizing the way we register copyrights with the Copyright Office. If you have ever registered a copyright online using the Electronic Copyright Office (eCO) Registration System, or if you have ever used the Copyright Office's online Public Records Catalog, please fill out our survey.

All the best,

Art, Shaun, Erika and the entire New Media Rights team

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