Some very smart people are already doing important legal work to help preserve the public domain and remind everyone that creativity has always built on the past. We especially recommend the following organizations:

Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works

Electronic Frontier Foundation a non-profit group working to protect your digital rights

Downhill Battle, a non-profit organization working to support participatory culture and build a fairer music industry

Internet Archive, a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts that is freely accessible to everyone

Chilling Effects, a consortium of law schools that aims to help users understand their rights and constitutional protections when they go online

Stanford Libraries Copyright and Fair Use Website provides an overview of the Fair Use Doctrine and laws that govern how copyrighted materials may be re-used

DigitalConsumer.org, a consumer-advocacy group devoted to protecting fair use and consumers’ personal-use media rights

Defective By Design, a direct-action, anti-DRM campaign that is targeting Big Media, unhelpful manufacturers and DRM distributors

 
     
Others are working in the realm of cultural production to suggest alternatives to the domination of media by corporate interests:
 

Who Makes Movies? Gordon McDowell's excellent parodies of the other (equally annoying) MPAA ads

@rtmark, a Bay area art collective devoted to promoting activist art against the copyright and culture industries

This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Kirby Dick's most excellent documentary exposing the MPAA's secretive ratings system and its impact on American culture - go see it when it opens in fall 2006 or buy the DVD!

Stay Free!, a Brooklyn-based magazine that explores the politics and perversions of mass media and American culture


You, make your own video that exposes the stupidity and excesses of the MPAA, the RIAA and major media corporations - then send us the link and we will post it on this site.

 

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