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.

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.

Duke University Law School Conference on the Public Domain site. Includes background papers, webcast, and other resources.

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.

A different definition for free software, aiming to give more control to the author/copyright holder. Also providing a license to complement the definition.

A coalition of non-profit and for-profit organizations that are committed to balanced intellectual property law in the digital environment.

A membership organization advocating protection of fair use rights in the digital environment.

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.

A nonprofit organization supporting the creation, identification, use, and funding of digital nonproprietary intellectual works including free music, literature, and software.

The organization that "started it all" in free or open source software.

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?

An online publication dedicated to the preservation,development, and support of the information commons as an alternative vision of intellectual property.

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.

Maintained by agencies of the United States Government and industry associations who claim to provide training and technical assistance relating to protecting IPR.

An international civil liberties group working to promote balanced intellectual property laws.

Industry, academic, and public interest groups support bill to improve consumer rights and protect technological innovation.

An organization protecting you from Big Government's attempts to keep information away from you even longer after the author's death.

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.

Fair use political action group of the NYC metro area.

An activist organization promoting balanced copyright in the digital age by protecting the ability to use digital media technologies.

Devoted to propagating the science, technology and management of Intellectual Property Rights in India and worldwide.

Washington, D.C.-based public interest advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the public interest in access to information.

Software patents and user interface copyrights harm programmers, and this organization is dedicated to stopping it.

Non-profit citizens group, seeking to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property.

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.

Promotes intellectual property throughout the world, and administrates various multilateral treaties.