New Media Rights

Name

New Media Rights

Legal name

New Media Rights

Website

https://newmediarights.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Services (Intellectual Property, Media, and Technology Law)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111), Patent Owners & Lessors (6794)

akta.pro primary industry

Rights Clearance & Chain-of-Title (Talent/Music/Clip Clearances) (MPAHALAC)

Keywords

• Intellectual property law
• Legal services nonprofit
• Creator rights advocacy
• Copyright legal help
• Media law education

Headquarters

HQ city

San Diego

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: As a nonprofit independently funded program of California Western School of Law, New Media Rights relies on donations and grants from supporters and foundations to fund operations.
2. Advertising Revenue: Google AdSense advertisements displayed on the website provide another source of revenue to supplement donations and grants, helping maintain free services.
3. Book Sales: Revenue from sales of 'Don't Panic: A Legal Guide (in plain English) for Small Businesses and Creative Professionals' available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

New Media Rights provides free, reduced-fee, and competitive-fee legal services to creators, entrepreneurs, and internet users in intellectual property, media, privacy, and technology law. It supplements direct legal services with the interactive Fair Use App, over 150 video guides, hundreds of written legal guides, the "Don't Panic" book, and policy advocacy before the Copyright Office and FCC. The organization also operates the Internet and Media Law Clinic with California Western School of Law to train law students.

Product overview

New Media Rights is a nonprofit legal services organization that provides a portfolio of free and low-cost services for creators, entrepreneurs, and internet users. The core offerings include direct one-to-one legal services, the interactive Fair Use App, educational resources (150+ video guides and written guides), and policy advocacy. Their flagship educational product is the 'Don't Panic' book available in multiple formats. Through their Internet and Media Law Clinic partnership with California Western School of Law, they also train the next generation of attorneys in intellectual property and technology law.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Legal Services Free, reduced-fee, and competitive full-fee one-to-one legal services for creators, entrepreneurs, internet users, scholars, and non-profits covering intellectual property, copyright, trademark, fair use, DMCA, privacy, right of publicity, contract review, and related media and technology law matters.
• Fair Use App Interactive web-based application that guides creators and internet users through a fair use analysis to determine whether they can reuse existing music, photo, or film content without permission, and provides guidance on obtaining permission when required.
• Don't Panic: A Legal Guide (in plain English) for Small Businesses and Creative Professionals Published legal guide book for creators and small businesses covering issues from business inception to legal disputes; available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats and used in undergraduate and graduate classes nationwide to teach business and legal concepts to non-lawyers.
• Public Policy Advocacy Policy advocacy service representing the interests of creators, entrepreneurs, and internet users in proceedings before the U.S. Copyright Office and the Federal Communications Commission.
• Internet and Media Law Clinic Law school clinic operated in partnership with California Western School of Law that trains law students in intellectual property, media, and privacy law by staffing them on New Media Rights' client matters.

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• KPBS Explore Local Content ProjectminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 December 2017New Media Rights partnered with KPBS for the Explore Local Content Project Orientation, where Assistant Director Shaun Spalding and Fellow Erika Lee discussed basics of intellectual property with local content creators.
• UCSD Extension / San Diego Final Cut Pro User GroupminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 June 2016New Media Rights conducted a Law 101 Workshop for Filmmakers and Video Editors at UCSD Extension in partnership with the San Diego Final Cut Pro User Group, addressing copyright basics for video creators.
• SXSW Interactive FestivalminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 March 2016Presented panel 'Can We Just Play? The Legality of Let's Play Video' at SXSW Interactive 2016 in Austin, Texas, discussing copyright and trademark issues for video game content creators.
• Various Law SchoolsminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 November 2015Created and maintains a national list of law school legal clinics as a resource to help creators, entrepreneurs and other lawyers find legal clinics fighting to fill the justice gap in IP and entrepreneurship legal services.
• Startup Weekend San DiegominorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 November 2014New Media Rights sponsored Startup Weekend San Diego MEGA: Web/Mobile/Maker event. Their sponsorship included offering free legal services for the winning team, supporting innovators and aspiring technology entrepreneurs in San Diego.
• California Western School of LawcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNew Media Rights is an independently funded nonprofit program of California Western School of Law (a 501(c)(3)). Through this partnership, NMR operates its Internet and Media Law Clinic, training the next generation of attorneys in cutting edge areas of law while providing legal services to the public. California Western provides the organizational structure and academic framework for the clinic.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Public Knowledge: Public Knowledge is a nonprofit public interest advocacy organization working on copyright, internet, and technology policy - closely matching NMR's policy advocacy and creator-rights focus.
• Software Freedom Law Center: SFLC provides free legal services to open-source software developers and creators - a similar nonprofit legal services model targeting a technical creator community, comparable to NMR's IP-focused legal aid work.
• LawHelp.org: LawHelp.org is a national network connecting low-income Americans with free legal aid - directly comparable nonprofit legal aid mission, with overlap on intellectual property and media law clinic work.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: EFF is a leading nonprofit focused on digital rights, IP, privacy, and technology law - directly comparable to NMR's mission. Both provide legal advocacy, education, and policy work for creators and internet users, though EFF operates at significantly larger national scale.
• Creative Commons: Creative Commons provides educational resources, tools, and policy work around copyright licensing for creators - overlapping with NMR's educational guides on fair use, Creative Commons, and licensing for creators.
• Copyright Alliance: Copyright Alliance is a nonprofit representing creators' rights on copyright policy - directly comparable advocacy and education mission serving the same creator communities as NMR.

Broad incumbents

• Internet Society: Internet Society is a global nonprofit advocating for an open, accessible internet - overlapping with NMR's internet user rights mission, though operating at a much larger international scale.
• Center for Democracy & Technology: CDT is a larger nonprofit advocating for digital rights, privacy, and internet freedom - broader in scope than NMR but with overlapping mission around internet user rights and policy advocacy.
• Nolo: Nolo is a long-established legal self-help publisher offering books, guides, and online resources for non-lawyers - highly comparable to NMR's 'Don't Panic' book and educational guide model, though commercial rather than nonprofit.

Emerging players

• LegalZoom: LegalZoom provides affordable online legal services for small businesses and entrepreneurs - comparable target audience to NMR's entrepreneur segment, though with a tech-enabled commercial model rather than nonprofit legal aid.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/newmediarightsstudio
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/new-media-rights
• Instagraminstagram.com/newmediarights
• Xx.com/newmediarights
• Facebookfacebook.com/newmediarights

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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