What We Do
The Online Media Legal Network (OMLN) is a legal referral service that connects qualifying online journalism ventures and digital media creators with lawyers willing to provide legal services on a pro bono or reduced-fee basis. OMLN supports promising ventures and innovative thinkers in online and digital media by providing access to legal help that would otherwise be unavailable.
Lawyers participating in the network can assist qualifying clients with a broad range of legal issues, including business formation and governance, copyright licensing and fair use, access to government information, pre-publication review of content, and representation in litigation.
Who We Are
The OMLN is an initiative of the Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP). CMLP is jointly affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Center for Citizen Media at Arizona State University. We are grateful for the generous financial support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Berkman Center for Internet & Society: The Berkman Center is a research center founded at Harvard Law School in 1997 to explore and understand cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. It serves as the locus for a network of Harvard and other faculty, students, fellows, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and others working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities presented by the Internet. The Center investigates the real and possible boundaries in cyberspace between open and closed systems of speech, of commerce, of governance, and of education, and the relationship of law to each.
Center for Citizen Media: Cosponsored by the Berkman Center and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. The mission of the Center for Citizen Media is to enhance and expand the emerging field of citizen media, with a focus on quality journalism.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation: The Knight Foundation promotes journalism excellence worldwide and invests in the vitality of the U.S. communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Since 1950 the foundation has granted more than $300 million to advance journalism quality and freedom of expression. Knight Foundation supports ideas and projects that create transformational change.
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