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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/
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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/
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World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
Promotes intellectual property throughout the world, and administrates various multilateral
treaties.
http://www.wipo.org/
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IP Justice
An international civil liberties group working to promote balanced intellectual property laws.
http://www.ipjustice.org
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Wipout
This organization offers an alternative to the vision of intellectual property promoted by the
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
http://www.uea.ac.uk/~j013/wipout/
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New Yorkers for Fair Use
Fair use political action group of the NYC metro area.
http://fairuse.nylxs.com
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DigitalConsumer.org Home Page
A membership organization advocating protection of fair use rights in the digital environment.
http://digitalconsumer.org
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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/
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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
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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
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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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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/
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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
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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/
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Public Knowledge
Washington, D.C.-based public interest advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the public
interest in access to information.
http://publicknowledge.org
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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
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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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
The organization that "started it all" in free or open source software.
http://www.fsf.org/
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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
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