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Topia!: Society: Issues: Intellectual Property: Organizations (21)
 Conference on the Public Domain - Duke University Law School Conference on the Public Domain site. Includes background papers, webcast, and other resources.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. GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) - The organization that "started it all" in free or open source software. 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? 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. The League for Programming Freedom - Software patents and user interface copyrights harm programmers, and this organization is dedicated to stopping it. 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. Union for the Public Domain - Non-profit citizens group, seeking to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property. Public Knowledge - Washington, D.C.-based public interest advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the public interest in access to information. 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. 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. 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. Digital Future Coalition - A coalition of non-profit and for-profit organizations that are committed to balanced intellectual property law in the digital environment. info-commons.org - An online publication dedicated to the preservation,development, and support of the information commons as an alternative vision of intellectual property. 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. DigitalConsumer.org Home Page - A membership organization advocating protection of fair use rights in the digital environment. New Yorkers for Fair Use - Fair use political action group of the NYC metro area. Wipout - This organization offers an alternative to the vision of intellectual property promoted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). IP Justice - An international civil liberties group working to promote balanced intellectual property laws. World Intellectual PropertyOrganisation (WIPO) - Promotes intellectual property throughout the world, and administrates various multilateral treaties. 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.
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