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New Media Rights: You gotta fight for your right to be an indie developer
Imagine you're a game developer, working on an independent project for two years. You spend $10,000 of your own savings on assets, artists and sound designers, and finally you release the game for $0.99, expecting to break even, maybe, in a few years. Three months after launch, you get a letter from a lawyer yelling at you in all capital letters, alleging you've violated federal statutes and if you don't take your game down immediately, you'll be sued for everything you're worth, and your friends and family are going down with you.What would you do?This is the cautionary tale that Shaun Spalding, the Assistant Director of New Media Rights, tells us as an introduction to what his group can do for independent developers at all levels. In this situation, "You'd freak out, right?" Spalding says. "The problem is, a lot of times these letters are completely bogus, or overreaching and deceptive."New Media Rights helps independent developers, filmmakers and startups sort through the BS, and offers professional legal assistance on a range of issues that they face every day. These are services that usually cost $300 to $500 an hour – and New Media Rights does it all for free.
