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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. |
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World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) - http://www.wipo.int/
Promotes intellectual property throughout the world, and administrates various multilateral treaties. |
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GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) - http://www.fsf.org/
The organization that "started it all" in free or open source software. |
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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. |
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Public Knowledge - http://publicknowledge.org
Washington, D.C.-based public interest advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the public interest in access to information. |
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IP Justice - http://www.ipjustice.org
An international civil liberties group working to promote balanced intellectual property laws. |
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Union for the Public Domain (UPD) - http://www.public-domain.org/
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. |
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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, social and regulatory climate which supports an innovation-based economy. |
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New Yorkers for Protecting Fair Use of Copyrighted Material - http://www.nyfairuse.org/
An activist organization promoting balanced copyright in the digital age by protecting the ability to use digital media technologies. |
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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. |
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Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute - http://www.ipngos.org
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. |
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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 dates and letter to EU JURI Committee Members in several languages. |
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Union for the Public Domain - http://www.cptech.org/legalinfo/updlttr.html
Non-profit citizens group, seeking to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property. |
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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. |
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Patentmatics - http://www.patentmatics.org
Devoted to propagating the science, technology and management of Intellectual Property Rights in India and worldwide. |