Archive:Activist Links

Organizations
A list organizations that work in the areas of of free culture and open access.
 * Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a nonprofit group of lawyers, technologists, and everyday people working to protect our digital rights.
 * Public Knowledge is an advocacy group working to defend our rights in the emerging digital culture.
 * Creative Commons presents an voluntary licensing system for copyright, the Creative Commons licences, which allow collobaration among artists across the world.
 * blog
 * Downhill Battle works to end the major label monopoly on music.
 * IPac is a political action committee dedicated to preserving individual freedom through balanced intellectual property policy.
 * Wikimedia's various projects focus on citizen journalism.
 * Teleread advocates "Well-Stocked National Digital Libraries".
 * blog
 * Click the Vote is an independent grassroots non-profit group fighting for new technology user rights.

Free Software

 * Free Software Foundation (FSF) is the birthplace of the free software movement. Approaches the issue of software from the perspective of freedom.
 * Open Source Iniative maintains the Open Source Definition. Approaches the issue of software from a more practical perspective.

Other Student Groups
Other student groups who touch on the free culture sphere of issues, whether activist groups or pre-professional clubs.


 * Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) lobby research universities to license their medical patents for free use in poor countries.
 * Intellectual Property & Social Justice (IPSJ) at the University of California-Davis Law School discusses the links between their namesakes.
 * Belmont University Copyright Society at Belmont University discusses copyright.
 * Information Technology Law Society (ITLS) at the University of Ottawa (Canada) Law School discussed information technology law.

UN Agencies

 * World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an agency of the United Nations "dedicated to promoting the use and protection of works of the human spirit."
 * World Trade Organization (WTO) see TRIPS

Industry and Professional Associations

 * Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
 * Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
 * Business Software Alliance (BSA)
 * National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
 * Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) is "an elite group of the nation's top high-tech companies."
 * United States Telecom Association (USTA) is "the voice of the converged telecom industry."
 * Computer &amp; Communications Industry Association (CCIA)
 * Open Source &amp; Industry Alliance (OSAIA)
 * Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)

Library

 * American Library Association
 * other library groups

Think Tanks
Think tanks who have said something about free culture issues.


 * Progress & Freedom Foundation
 * Heritage Foundation
 * Progressive Policy Institute
 * Center for American Progress
 * Institute for Policy Innovation

Europe

 * Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
 * Open Knowledge Foundation
 * Free Culture UK (UK)
 * Association des Audionautes (France)

Linkdump

 * Public Patent Foundation
 * Consumer Project on Technology
 * Center for Democracy & Technology
 * Consumers' Union
 * Consumer Federation of America
 * Union for the Public Domain
 * IP Justice
 * Prometheus Radio Project
 * Free Press
 * Alliance for Taxpayer Access
 * Future of Music Coalition
 * OpenTheGovernment.org
 * Student Press Law Center
 * Coalition of Journalists for Open Government

Funders

 * Open Society Institute
 * Ford Foundation
 * Surdna Foundation
 * Funding Exchange
 * Center for the Public Domain
 * William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
 * Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing

Blogs and News

 * Copyfight is a copyright & "IP" law news blog.
 * Slashdot is a general technology blog ("News for Nerds") which often touches on copyright and patent issues.
 * LawMeme is a "law and technology weblog affiliated with Yale Law School".
 * boing boing is an enigma which sometimes covers free culture issues.

Linkdump

 * Open Access News
 * Wired

Individuals
Here are some people who often make headlines regarding free culture issues.
 * Lawrence Lessig is the author of Free Culture, a professor at Stanford Law School, chair of Creative Commons and a boardmember of the EFF.
 * Richard Stallman is president of the Free Software Foundation and founder of the GNU Project.

Linkdump

 * JD Lasica
 * Joi Ito
 * Dan Gillmor
 * Reed Hundt
 * Eben Moglen
 * John Gilmore
 * Ed Felten
 * Mike Godwin
 * Mitch Kapor
 * Michael Geist
 * Brewster Kahle
 * Linus Torvalds
 * David Bollier

Lectures and Presentations

 * Lessig at Swarthmore
 * Eben Moglen at Swarthmore
 * Lessig at OSCON 2002 (Flash)

Open Content

 * Internet Archive is a digital library of various medias available to the general public.
 * Project Gutenberg produces and hosts over 13,000 freely available eBooks, most digital versions of works in the public domain.
 * ibiblio is a "conservancy of freely available information".
 * Sourceforge is "the world's largest Open Source software development website."
 * United States Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-21 A searchable index of digitized USGS photos in the public domain from 1872 to 1991.
 * Our Media
 * CC Mixter
 * Opsound

Copyright Law

 * Stanford Fair Use & Copyright Center is a guide to copyright, fair use, and current copyright issues.
 * BitLaw is a resource on technology law.

Academic Centers
These are programs at universities which study topics related to free culture.


 * Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School is a "public interest technology law and policy program."
 * Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is a "research program founded to explore cyberspace ... and help pioneer its development."
 * Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School is "the first university center in the world devoted to the other side of the (copyright protection) picture."
 * Center for Social Media at American University's School of Communication "showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and action."
 * Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California - Berkeley's School of Law "takes on projects in many fields relating to the public interest in technology."
 * Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications studies media law and open government.
 * Freedom of Information Center at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism studies media law and open government.

Other

 * Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
 * Online Journalism Review

Activist Tools

 * Free Press Activist Tools - text and video
 * THOMAS - a database of Congressional activity

Youth Activism

 * Wikipedia: student activism, youth activism
 * CampusActivism.org -
 * Freechild Project
 * Activist Learning Online
 * SoundOut.org
 * Youth Activism Project
 * At The Table
 * Peter Levine - blog
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