Giving Tuesday is here! Please take a moment now and donate to New Media Rights.
In 2025, New Media Rights was busy providing legal services to hundreds of creators, internet users, and innovators throughout the world. Filmmakers, journalists, and artists need to understand the scope of their speech and privacy rights now more than ever.
Please take a moment to donate now to ensure that the essential legal services that we provide to hundreds of creators, innovators and everyday internet users continue to exist.
With your support, we’ve done this and more in 2025:
- Provided services to filmmakers seeking legal advice related to their social impact films and projects, including the story of an accomplished Mexican immigrant who devotes his life to saving stranded migrants and recovering those who die along the U.S. border, a Grammy Award-winning ukulele artist as he navigates personal and professional challenges that come with success, and the nature of generational trauma and healing explored through the lens of two sisters reconnecting after many years.
- Updated our Field Guide to Secret Audio and Video Recordings. We’ve even included a section on recording with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and have plans for a future complete UAV-related rights guide.
- Brought our expertise to the community with presentations and workshops at the KPBS Explore Program, Champlain College, and California State University Northridge.
- Completed a 3-year, $150,000 grant from the Rose Foundation to provide services related to consumer technology and consumer rights.
- Joined the tech and startup community for March Mingle to celebrate the flourishing tech scene in San Diego.
- Continued our partnership with the San Diego Miramar College Regional Entrepreneurship Center (REC) to provide legal workshops and consultation sessions to early-stage startups.
- Created new continuing legal education content for ALM and Cerifi LegalEdge (formerly West LegalEdcenter of Thomson Reuters), designed for attorneys working in transactional IP, privacy and media law.
- Reached the 2300th sale of our book Don’t Panic :) A Legal Guide (in plain English) for Small Businesses and Creative Professionals. Courses nationwide now use Don't Panic as part of their coursework, from UCSD, to Berklee College of Music, San Diego City College, Rochester Institute of Technology, San Diego State University, and more! You can get your copy of Don’t Panic today!
In 2026 with your support, we plan to:
- Continue to provide free and dramatically reduced fee legal services to underserved creators and innovators.
- Sponsor and organize various workshops, clinics, and community events throughout the San Diego region and the United States about privacy law, copyright law and digital rights.
- Work on policy initiatives.
Please take a few moments to donate now. Even if a donation isn't feasible at this time, we would appreciate it if you could take a moment to tell others about our work on social media, so that we can connect with some of the people who need us the most!
We wish you a happy holiday season and thank you for your support!
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