Conference on the Public Domain Save
Duke University Law School Conference on the Public Domain site. Includes background papers, webcast, and other resources.
http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/index.html   

CODE: Campaign for an Open Digital Environment Save
An international coalition of civil liberties groups and consumer rights initiatives to protect the public's rights, innovation, and competition against the proposed European Union Directive on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property. Reports, news, key dates and letter to EU JURI Committee Members in several languages.
http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE/   

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse Save
A project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and of several university law clinics. The project aims to counter the chilling effects of overreaching "cease and desist" notices of intellectual property infringement.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/   

Creative Commons Save
A non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright. Offering work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up copyright. It means offering some of an author's rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.
http://creativecommons.org/   

DigitalConsumer.org Save
A membership organization advocating protection of fair use rights in the digital environment.
http://digitalconsumer.org/   

EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation Save
A non-profit, non-partisan organization working to protect fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression, which opposes patents and copyrights as a violation of freedom of speech.
http://www.eff.org   

Electronic Gift Economies, Inc. Save
A nonprofit organization supporting the creation, identification, use, and funding of digital nonproprietary intellectual works including free music, literature, and software.
http://ege-inc.org/   

GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Save
The organization that "started it all" in free or open source software.
http://www.fsf.org/   

Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) Home Page Save
An organization defending your freedom to make home recordings of music and movies. Did you realize the government's trying to take this away from you?
http://www.hrrc.org/   

IP Justice Save
An international civil liberties group working to promote balanced intellectual property laws.
http://www.ipjustice.org   

Intellectual Property Institute Save
Promotes awareness and understanding of intellectual property law and its contribution to economic and social welfare, through research to provide knowledge to industry, policy makers, professionals and the general public, in order to foster a legal, social and regulatory climate which supports an innovation-based economy.
http://www.ip-institute.org.uk/   

Intellectual Property Rights - Training Database Save
Maintained by agencies of the United States Government and industry associations who claim to provide training and technical assistance relating to protecting IPR.
http://www.training.ipr.gov/   

International Intellectual Property Institute Save
Not-for-profit corporation claiming to support the use of intellectual property as a tool for economic growth, particularly in developing countries. Promotes strong intellectual property regimes and intellectual property enforcement.
http://www.iipi.org   

Kansas City InfoZine - Personal Technology Freedom Coalition Created Save
Industry, academic, and public interest groups support bill to improve consumer rights and protect technological innovation.
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/...   

Liber | Free the Books Campaign Save
An organization protecting you from Big Government's attempts to keep information away from you even longer after the author's death.
http://users.vnet.net/alight/liber.html   

New Yorkers for Fair Use Save
Fair use political action group of the NYC metro area.
http://fairuse.nylxs.com   

New Yorkers for Protecting Fair Use of Copyrighted Material Save
An activist organization promoting balanced copyright in the digital age by protecting the ability to use digital media technologies.
http://www.nyfairuse.org/   

Open Business Save
Shares and develops innovative Open Business ideas built around openness, free services and free access.
http://www.openbusiness.cc   

Patentmatics Save
Devoted to propagating the science, technology and management of Intellectual Property Rights in India and worldwide.
http://www.patentmatics.org   

Public Knowledge Save
Washington, D.C.-based public interest advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the public interest in access to information.
http://publicknowledge.org   

Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute Save
Aims to identify patterns in recent NGO activity at CBD COP, FAO, WHO, WIPO, WTO. Focuses on public health and access to essential medicines, and agriculture, genetic resources. and traditional knowledge.
http://www.ipngos.org   

The League for Programming Freedom Save
Software patents and user interface copyrights harm programmers, and this organization is dedicated to stopping it.
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/   

Union for the Public Domain Save
Non-profit citizens group, seeking to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property.
http://www.cptech.org/legalinfo/updlt...   

Union for the Public Domain (UPD) Save
A non-profit citizens group with a mission to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property. A membership organization acting as an independent voice on intellectual property issues.
http://www.public-domain.org/   

World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Save
Promotes intellectual property throughout the world, and administrates various multilateral treaties.
http://www.wipo.int/   

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