Organizations

Organizations Links

• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Union for the Public Domain Non-profit citizens group, seeking to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property.
  
• The League for Programming Freedom Software patents and user interface copyrights harm programmers, and this organization is dedicated to stopping it.
  
• 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?
  
• GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) The organization which "started it all" in free or open source software.
  
• Studies Find Reward Often No Motivator The greatest reward musicians should have is their own music and nothing else. According to a study reported in the 19, January 1987 issue of the Boston Globe, Alfie Kohn reports on a psychological study that shows that creativity diminishes if it's done for gain.
  
• 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.