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Art Neill
New Media Rights
Executive Director, Founder
Art is the founder of New Media Rights, a non-profit that provides free and low-cost legal services to underserved creators, entrepreneurs, and internet users in the areas of internet, intellectual property, privacy, and media law. In addition to direct legal services, New Media Rights provides extensive educational resources and and public policy advocacy in these areas of the law that is based on their first hand work with clients. Art is also an adjunct professor of law at California Western School of Law teaching the courses Internet & Social Media Law (primarily focused on Internet, Intellectual Property, licensing, and online publishing law) as well as an Internet & Media Law Clinic.
In 2011, 2013, and 2015, Art was appointed as a member of the Federal Communication Commission's Consumer Advisory Committee, where he has served as Co-chair of the Broadband Working Group as well as a member of the Consumer Empowerment Working Group.