Policy Advocacy

Today, New Media Rights along with a broad coalition of more than 90 education, library, technology, public interest, and legal organizations, called on the White House to take action to ensure federally funded educational materials are made available as Open Educational Resources (OER) that are free to use, share, and improve!

On this page of the Citizen's Guide to Creative Commons, we'll go over the most basic features shared by all Creative Commons licenses, and cover the responsibilities and privileges given to those using CC licensed work!.

Let's choose a Creative Commons license! Here, we'll cover the different licenses you can choose, the various requirements you can set with your license, and we'll show you how to put your work in the public domain.

Want to learn even more about fair use? Here are some great resources for you to check out!

• Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
• Fair Use at the Digital Media Law Project
• Tales from the Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW?
• What is Fair Use? on YouTube
• Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center
• Fair Use Index at the United States Copyright Office

Is your favorite fair use resource missing? Please send it our way via our contact form and we may be able to include it on our page!

We're excited to announce that New Media Rights Executive Director Art Neill will be speaking on a panel at the Alliance for Community Media Annual Conference on August 13, in Pasadena, CA from 3:30-5:00pm.

The topic of the panel will be "Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Fair Use in Media."

The panel will be an opportunity to help community media learn about copyright and fair use, and the many ways the law can actually empower their creativity. The panel will also cover how to avoid legal disputes in the first place, and how to move forward if you do face legal threats.

The conference takes place from August 12-14 at the Hilton Pasadena.