EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation

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.
http://www.eff.org

GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)

The organization that "started it all" in free or open source software.
http://www.fsf.org/

Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) Home Page

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?
http://www.hrrc.org/

Musicians Against Copyrighting Of Samples

MACOS is a non-profit organization constructing an international network of musicians whose opinions of sampling and the use of sampling technology oppose the copyrighting of samples.
http://www.icomm.ca/macos/

The League for Programming Freedom

Software patents and user interface copyrights harm programmers, and this organization is dedicated to stopping it.
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/

Liber | Free the Books Campaign

An organization protecting you from Big Government's attempts to keep information away from you even longer after the author's death.
http://users.vnet.net/alight/liber.html

Union for the Public Domain

Non-profit citizens group, seeking to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property.
http://www.cptech.org/legalinfo/updlttr.html

Public Knowledge

Washington, D.C.-based public interest advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the public interest in access to information.
http://publicknowledge.org

Creative Commons

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.
http://creativecommons.org/

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse

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.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/

Conference on the Public Domain

Duke University Law School Conference on the Public Domain site. Includes background papers, webcast, and other resources.
http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/index.html

info-commons.org

An online publication dedicated to the preservation,development, and support of the information commons as an alternative vision of intellectual property.
http://info-commons.org

New Yorkers for Protecting Fair Use of Copyrighted Material

An activist organization promoting balanced copyright in the digital age by protecting the ability to use digital media technologies.
http://www.nyfairuse.org/

DigitalConsumer.org

A membership organization advocating protection of fair use rights in the digital environment.
http://digitalconsumer.org/

New Yorkers for Fair Use

Fair use political action group of the NYC metro area.
http://fairuse.nylxs.com

IP Justice

An international civil liberties group working to promote balanced intellectual property laws.
http://www.ipjustice.org

Intellectual Property Rights - Training Database

Maintained by agencies of the United States Government and industry associations who claim to provide training and technical assistance relating to protecting IPR.
http://www.training.ipr.gov/

CODE: Campaign for an Open Digital Environment

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
http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE/

Union for the Public Domain (UPD)

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.
http://www.public-domain.org/

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.
http://ege-inc.org/

Intellectual Property Institute

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, soci
http://www.ip-institute.org.uk/

Kansas City InfoZine - Personal Technology Freedom Coalition Created

Industry, academic, and public interest groups support bill to improve consumer rights and protect technological innovation.
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/2605/

World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)

Promotes intellectual property throughout the world, and administrates various multilateral treaties.
http://www.wipo.int/

Patentmatics

Devoted to propagating the science, technology and management of Intellectual Property Rights in India and worldwide.
http://www.patentmatics.org