NEW MEDIA RIGHTS

New Media Rights Executive Director Art Neill and Assistant Director Erika Lee were guests on the Pop Culture Detective: Audio Files Podcast. We joined host Jonathan McIntosh to discuss the importance of fair use and how it interacts with YouTube’s Content ID system. Fair use is a critical tool for the media criticism field, but also for many other creative ventures. You can find the podcast on the Pop Culture Detective: Audio Files website, YouTube, and wherever you normally get your podcasts.

Business Insider quoted Executive Director Art Neill in an article that discusses the legal implications of former President Trump’s lawsuit claiming the audio rights to interviews by Bob Woodward. The case poses interesting questions about copyright ownership and use of interview recordings. Professor Neill spoke about the challenges that a potential precedent imposing laborious new requirements on news gathering would have on journalists.

New Media Rights attended the ABA Antitrust Law Section’s Consumer Protection and Data Privacy Conference on February 8th-9th. Experts in the consumer protection and data privacy fields shared their perspectives on what is most important today for consumers, and those working to protect their interests. Emory Roane, a CWSL and New Media Rights alum and currently the Policy Counsel for Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, spoke on a panel about the current consumer financial protection landscape. Current NMR students Jackie Taitano-Johnson (2L) and Emily Kirschenheuter (2L), and NMR alumni / current CWSL student Christy Hsu (3L) had the opportunity to network with prominent consumer protection and privacy attorneys.