Chilling Effects Clearinghouse «
http://www.chillingeffects.org/ | | 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. |
CODE: Campaign for an Open Digital Environment «
http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE/ | | 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 |
Conference on the Public Domain «
http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/index.html | | Duke university law school conference on the public domain site. includes background papers , webcast , and other resources. |
Creative Commons «
http://creativecommons.org/ | | 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. |
DigitalConsumer. org «
http://digitalconsumer.org/ | | A membership organization advocating protection of fair use rights in the digital environment. |
EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation «
http://www.eff.org | | 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. |
Electronic Gift Economies, Inc. «
http://ege-inc.org/ | | A nonprofit organization supporting the creation , identification , use , and funding of digital nonproprietary intellectual works including free music , literature , and software. |
GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) «
http://www.fsf.org/ | | The organization that " started it all" in free or open source software. |
Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) Home Page «
http://www.hrrc.org/ | | 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? |
Intellectual Property Institute «
http://www.ip-institute.org.uk/ | | 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 , soci |
Intellectual Property Rights - Training Database «
http://www.training.ipr.gov/ | | Maintained by agencies of the united states government and industry associations who claim to provide training and technical assistance relating to protecting ipr. |
International Intellectual Property Institute «
http://www.iipi.org | | 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. |
IP Justice «
http://www.ipjustice.org | | An international civil liberties group working to promote balanced intellectual property laws. |
Kansas City InfoZine - Personal Technology Freedom Coalition Created «
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/2605/ | | Industry , academic , and public interest groups support bill to improve consumer rights and protect technological innovation. |
Liber | Free the Books Campaign «
http://users.vnet.net/alight/liber.html | | An organization protecting you from big government's attempts to keep information away from you even longer after the author's death. |
