Media Rights

Interview by Neeru Paharia
April 2005

MediaRights.org is an innovative non-profit, based in New York, but accessible around the world via their website that helps to showcase important social issue documentaries and puts media makers, educators, librarians, nonprofits, and activists in contact with each other to enable the use of documentaries to generate discussion and encourage action on contemporary social issues. MediaRights.org offers, for free, four distinct toolkits: one for producers; one for educators and librarians; one for activists and non-profits; and, one for youth media producers and activists.

MediaRights.org co-ordinates an annual Media That Matters Film Festival. The MTM festival is designed to bring high-impact shorts and 'Take Action tools' to audiences throughout the United States and some international venues, all year long. The premiere of this year's MTM festival takes place in New York on May 18, 2005, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music followed by an Awards Ceremony to be held at HBO headquarters on May 19, 2005.

MediaRights.org recently started using Creative Commons licenses for the films being showcased in the Media That Matters film festival and as part of other MediaRights.org projects.

Neeru Paharia from Creative Commons caught up with David Jacobs, MediaRights.org's Director of Distribution and Technology, to find out more about MediaRights.org, their various projects and their experience using Creative Commons licenses.

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