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Chilling Effects Clearinghousehttp://www.chillingeffects.org/ 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.
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Creative CommonsA non-profit organization which designs legal and technological tools to allow creators to designate their works as accessible in the public domain.
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Democratic Software FoundationA different definition for free software, aiming to give more control to the author/copyright holder. Also providing a license to complement the definition.
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DigitalConsumer.org Home PageA membership organization advocating protection of fair use rights in the digital environment.
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EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier FoundationA 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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Electronic Gift Economies, Inc.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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GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)The organization that "started it all" in free or open source software.
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Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) Home PageAn 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?
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info-commons.orgAn online publication dedicated to the preservation,development, and support of the information commons as an alternative vision of intellectual property.
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Intellectual Property Institutehttp://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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