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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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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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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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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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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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Creative Commons
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.
http://creativecommons.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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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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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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DigitalConsumer.org
A membership organization advocating protection of fair use rights in the digital environment.
http://digitalconsumer.org/
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