Intellectual Property Organizations

• Budapest Open Access Initiative  - Aims to advance the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet.
• Campaign for an Open Digital Environment  - Information about the activities of an international coalition of civil liberty groups and consumer rights initiatives on the enforcement of intellectual property rights.
• Chilling Effects  - Clearinghouse for information on intellectual property laws, particularly in the online realm.
• Conference on the Public Domain  - Houses a collection of conference papers on public domain. With other background materials.
• Creative Commons  - Get to know this non-profit organization that services flexible copyright licenses for creative works. With a gallery of audios, images, videos, texts, and educational materials.
• Electronic Gift Economies, Inc.  - Advocates for the creation of free and non-proprietary art and literatures such as music and software.
• Free Software Foundation  - Promotes the free use, study, copying, modification, and distribution of computer programs or software.
• Home Recording Rights Coalition  - Provides information related to consumer home recording. Fosters the consumers' rights to use player-recorders of audios, videos, data, and software.
• Intellectual Property Rights Training Program Database  - Offers trainings and assistance related to protecting intellectual property rights. Sponsored by the Bureau of Economic Affairs of the US Department of State.
• Licensing Executives Society (LES)  - Professional society for intellectual property development, use, transfer, marketing, and management.
• Patentmatics  - Educational site for intellectual property rights and related science, technology & development issues.
• Public Knowledge  - Presents issue discussions, news and analyses, press materials, blogs, and resources pertinent to defending rights in the digital culture.
• Public Library of Science  - Nonprofit association of scientists and physicians created to help make scientific and medical literature a freely available resource.
• Union for Public Domain  - Posts news, updates, and blogs related to public domain issues.
• World Intellectual Property Organization  - Provides intellectual property related information, news, and various other related resources.