Advocacy and Policy Partners

NAMAC works with broad coalitions and specific partner organizations to join the media arts field to larger advocacy and policy efforts across a broad spectrum of topic areas.

• Benton Foundation
  The Benton Foundation seeks to articulate a public interest vision for the digital age and to demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems. Learn more...
• Center for Creative Voices in Media
  NAMAC works with the Center to inform creative media artists about the critical media policy debates underway in Washington that may dramatically impact --either positively or negatively--their work.  Learn more...
• Center for Social Media at American University
  The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and action. NAMAC works with the Center to promote and disseminate knowledge about Fair Use Practices and other issues that directly impact documentarians.  Learn more...
• Future of Music Coalition
  Future of Music Coalition is a national nonprofit organization that works to ensure a diverse musical culture where artists flourish, are compensated fairly for their work, and where fans can find the music they want. NAMAC works with Future of Music Coalition on issues of net neutrality and access to broadband technology. Learn More...
• The Media and Democracy Coalition
  NAMAC is a member of the Media and Democracy Coalition which represents 23 diverse groups joining together to work for reform of the media landscape in America. Learn more...
• New America Foundation
  The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States. NAMAC works with the New America Foundation on on issues of net neutrality and access to broadband technology. Learn More...
• Public Knowledge
  Public Knowledge is a group of lawyers, technologists, lobbyists, academics, volunteers and activists dedicated to fortifying and defending a vibrant information commons. NAMAC works with PK on issues of copyright and intellectual property.  Learn more...
• USC's Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic
  The USC Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic works with artists, entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations, and policymakers who are struggling with the challenges presented by the clash of technology with law and policy. NAMAC works with the Clinic on issues of copyright and intellectual property. Learn More...