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Conference on the Public Domain
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
info-commons.org
An online publication dedicated to the preservation,development, and support of the information commons as an alternative vision of intellectual property.
http://info-commons.org
New Yorkers for Protecting Fair Use of Copyrighted Material
An activist organization promoting balanced copyright in the digital age by protecting the ability to use digital media technologies.
http://www.nyfairuse.org/
DigitalConsumer.org Home Page
A membership organization advocating protection of fair use rights in the digital environment.
http://digitalconsumer.org
New Yorkers for Fair Use
Fair use political action group of the NYC metro area.
http://fairuse.nylxs.com
IP Justice
An international civil liberties group working to promote balanced intellectual property laws.
http://www.ipjustice.org
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
Promotes intellectual property throughout the world, and administrates various multilateral treaties.
http://www.wipo.org/
Intellectual Property Rights - Training Database
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/
CODE: Campaign for an Open Digital Environment
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/
Union for the Public Domain (UPD)
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/
Electronic Gift Economies, Inc.
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/
Intellectual Property Institute
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/
Kansas City InfoZine - Personal Technology Freedom Coalition Created
Industry, academic, and public interest groups support bill to improve consumer rights and protect technological innovation.
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/2605/
EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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
GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
The organization that "started it all" in free or open source software.
http://www.fsf.org/
Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) Home Page
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/
Musicians Against Copyrighting Of Samples
MACOS is a non-profit organization constructing an international network of musicians whose opinions of sampling and the use of sampling technology oppose the copyrighting of samples.
http://www.icomm.ca/macos/
The League for Programming Freedom
Software patents and user interface copyrights harm programmers, and this organization is dedicated to stopping it.
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/
Liber | Free the Books Campaign
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
Union for the Public Domain
Non-profit citizens group, seeking to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property.
http://www.cptech.org/legalinfo/updlttr.html
Public Knowledge
Washington, D.C.-based public interest advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the public interest in access to information.
http://publicknowledge.org
Creative Commons
A non-profit organization which designs legal and technological tools to allow creators to designate their works as accessible in the public domain.
http://creativecommons.org/
Democratic Software Foundation
A different definition for free software, aiming to give more control to the author/copyright holder. Also providing a license to complement the definition.
http://www.dsf.org.uk
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
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/
Digital Future Coalition
A coalition of non-profit and for-profit organizations that are committed to balanced intellectual property law in the digital environment.
http://www.dfc.org/
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