Creative
Commons
(CC)
543 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94105-3013
(v) 415.946.3070
(e)
email CC
Notes: Founded in 2001 with the generous support of the Center for
the Public Domain. Balance, compromise, and moderation once the
driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and
protection equally have become endangered species. Creative
Commons is working to revive them. We use private rights to create
public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the
free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative
and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian.
We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their
works while encouraging certain uses of them to declare "some
rights reserved."
Electronic
Frontier Foundation
(EFF)
454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco, CA 94110-1914
(v) 415.436.9333
(e)
email EFF
Notes: Founded in 1990 - well before the Internet was on most
people's radar - and continues to confront cutting-edge issues
defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights
today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in
every critical battle affecting digital rights. Blending the
expertise of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and technologists,
EFF achieves significant victories on behalf of consumers and the
general public. EFF fights for freedom primarily in the courts,
bringing and defending lawsuits even when that means taking on the
US government or large corporations.
Intellectual
Property Watch
(IP-Watch)
P.O. Box 2100
1-5 Route des Morillons
1211 Geneva 2
Switzerland
(v) +41 (0)22 791 67 16
(e)
email IP-Watch
Notes: Founded 2004, IP-Watch is a non-profit independent news service, reports on the
interests and behind-the-scenes dynamics that influence the design
and implementation of international intellectual property policies.
Intellectual Property Watch is funded through subscriptions and by
grants from private philanthropic foundations. Intellectual Property
Watch currently has funding from the Ford Foundation, the John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Rockefeller
Foundation. Past funding was provided by the Open Society Institute.
Public
Patent Foundation (PUBPAT)
1375 Broadway, Suite 600
New York, NY 10018
(v) 212.796.0570
(e)
email PubPat
Notes: Founded in 2003 by Dan Ravicher, PUBPAT is a not-for-profit
legal services organization that represents the public's interests
against the harms caused by the patent system, particularly the
harms caused by undeserved patents and unsound patent policy. PUBPAT
provides the general public and specific persons or entities
otherwise deprived of access to the system governing patents with
representation, education and advocacy.
Telecoms
Action Group (TAG)
South Africa
(v) 084.351.7372
(e)
email TAG
Notes: Founded in 2006, the Telecoms Action Group (TAG) is a group
of independent telecoms reform activists. The project was founded by
Richard Frank and Tectonic. TAG's mission is to raise
awareness concerning the poor state of telecoms in SA as a whole and
responsibility for that can be leveled not just at the telecoms
operators, but more accurately at the politicians and at telecoms
regulator Icasa.
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