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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Fair use political action group of the NYC metro area.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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