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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.

The only thing stopping Hollywood from releasing movies to VOD earlier is… Hollywood. They could do it if they wanted to. There’s no law stopping them, there’s not technical limitation.

They’ve imposed an artificial limitation as a lever to get what they want. If there were actual serious demand for movies on VOD sooner, I seriously doubt Hollywood would leave the money lying on the table.

In the last decade, we have seen an explosion in the use of the Internet to create art, promote the arts, advocate for the arts, build community through the arts, and more.  Our sector’s ability to participate in the Web 2.0 cultural shift is due in large part to our ability to access any tool hosted on the Internet with the same ease as any other Web user. 

“We” are part of government now, and it is our responsibility to make sure our voices can have a once-in-a-generation chance to make a major impact. And for us, it is around what we know best: the arts and media culture.

I’ve been referring to the period between the November election and the Obama Inauguration as the “circle of confusion,” a film term describing a fuzzy area caused by the light rays not coming into perfect focus. Such was our post-election state.

Here are 7 simple steps to make arts advocacy a daily part of your work.

Over a year ago, when NAMAC chose Boston as the location for its 2009 biennial conference and chose “commonwealth” as its theme, nobody involved knew how important this convening would become.

A whole flock of bright ideas for public-service employment of artists is attracted by that irresistible combination of ingredients: high unemployment, a boundless supply of artistic and social imagination and the intoxicating prospect of a progressive government in Washington.

The prospect of public service jobs for artists has continued to generate unprecedented interest and energy, as well as a flood of questions about how and why a new WPA might come into being.

Designed as a collaboration across the public media, education, and technology sectors, National Public Lightpath (NPL) will create a high-speed fiber optic network to serve the public media and education communities.