International Intellectual Property Institute
- Not-for-profit corporation claiming to support the use of intellectual property as a tool for economic growth, particularly in developing countries. Promotes strong intellectual property regimes and intellectual property enforcement.
- http://www.iipi.org

Open Business
- Shares and develops innovative Open Business ideas built around openness, free services and free access.
- http://www.openbusiness.cc

Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute
- Aims to identify patterns in recent NGO activity at CBD COP, FAO, WHO, WIPO, WTO. Focuses on public health and access to essential medicines, and agriculture, genetic resources. and traditional knowledge.
- http://www.ipngos.org

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

World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
- Promotes intellectual property throughout the world, and administrates various multilateral treaties.
- http://www.wipo.int/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

New Yorkers for Fair Use
- Fair use political action group of the NYC metro area.
- http://fairuse.nylxs.com

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

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/

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/

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

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

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

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/

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/

GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- The organization that "started it all" in free or open source software.
- http://www.fsf.org/

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