advocacy
29 Jul 2010
USC Intellectual Property & Technology Law Clinic Wins Copyright Law Exemption on Behalf of Filmmaker
A team of USC Law students from the USC Intellectual Property and Technology Clinic has helped secure an exemption that will allow documentary filmmakers to use material contained on DVDs and other sources that were previously off limits.
24 May 2010
Listening Deeply: A Subtle Art for Leadership Success
I’ve been thinking a lot about listening as a critical leadership skill. The best leaders I’ve known have been great listeners.
22 Apr 2010
Arts Advocacy Day 2010 Report
Last week, I attended Arts Advocacy Day, organized by American for the Arts, for the second time. Similar to my experience from my first attendance in 2009, I found it exhilarating and empowering.
15 Apr 2010
WPA, Where Art Thou?
Last month, Representative George Miller introduced the "Local Jobs for America Act," H. R. 4812, much-needed legislation "To provide funds to States, units of general local government, and community-based organizations to save and create local jobs through the retention, restoration, or expansion of services needed by local communities, and for other purposes."
26 Mar 2010
Working Together to Define Why Our Media Matters
On March 18, NAMAC hosted a lively "Media Impact Summit" that drew together leading public and independent media makers, funders and researchers to share and hone assessment strategies.
22 Mar 2010
Jobs and Snow Jobs
I'm writing today about President Obama's jobs bill, a supremely disappointing effort to evade both the necessity and risk this moment demands.
17 Mar 2010
Online Networking Fundraisers: Are They Too Exclusive?
“Tweet. Meet. Give.” This is the slogan for the Twestival, or Twitter Festival, one of the newest cause marketing tactics designed to allow people who follow one another on Twitter to meet in person while at the same time raising money for a good cause.
15 Mar 2010
The Future of Digital Infrastructure for the Creative Economy
Every member of the arts community has been impacted by the unprecedented challenges and opportunities proffered by technology.
19 Jan 2010
NAMAC Helps Highlight the Importance of an Open Internet
On January 14, 2010, the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture was one of thirteen independent creator organizations showing support for net neutrality in an FCC notice regarding the preservation of an Open Internet. The comments submitted by the various organizations bear witness to the call for enforceable and lawful rules that can ensure equality to all creators on the Internet. In a growing digital world, NAMAC wants to make sure every artist and creator has the opportunity to reach out to their potential audiences.
Co-signers include Future of Music Coalition, the Writers Guild of America and the American Music Center to name a few.
20 Nov 2009
Bringing Community Media into the University: A Strategy for Developing Media Arts Programs
Community media work has always been hard to fund, and it’s only getting tougher with today’s economy. Meanwhile, universities are looking for creative ways to reach out to the communities that surround them and have the resources to do it. As a media artist/educator living in a university town, it occurred to me that I could design the kind of participatory, social change oriented media projects I’m passionate about in a way that meets the university’s needs. So I put these puzzle pieces together and over the past two years developed the Art of Regional Change (ARC) at the University of California Davis, 15 miles west of Sacramento.
