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Public Knowledge is a non-profit Washington, D.C.-based public interest group that is involved in intellectual property law, competition, and choice in the digital marketplace, and an open standards/end-to-end internet. A non-profit organization ( abbreviated "NPO" also "not-for-profit" is a legally constituted Organization whose objective is to support or engage Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Advocacy Advocacy is the pursuit of influencing outcomes –including public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political economic and social systems Intellectual property ( IP) is a legal field that refers to creations of the mind such as musical literary and artistic works inventions and symbols names An open standard is a Standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks Its president and co-founder is Gigi Sohn, Peter Suber is director of its open access project, and its directors include MIT professor Hal Abelson, Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig, and former FCC chairman Reed Hundt. Gigi Sohn is president and co-founder (with Laurie Racine and David Bollier) of Public Knowledge. Peter Suber (born November 8, 1951) is the creator of the Game Nomic and a leading voice in the Open access movement Open access ( OA) is free immediate permanent full-text Online access for any user web-wide to digital scientific and scholarly material primarily Harold (Hal Abelson is the Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a fellow of the IEEE, and serves on the Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto California, United States, in Silicon Valley Lawrence Lessig (born June 3 1961) is an American academic and political activist Reed E Hundt (born March 3 1948 in Ann Arbor Michigan) was chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission from 1993 to [1] Public Knowledge's work focuses on the three 'IP's of communications and copyright policy: information policy, intellectual property, and Internet Protocol. Information as a concept has a diversity of meanings from everyday usage to technical settings A policy is a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s Intellectual property ( IP) is a legal field that refers to creations of the mind such as musical literary and artistic works inventions and symbols names The Internet Protocol ( IP) is a protocol used for communicating data across a Packet-switched Internetwork using the Internet Protocol

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  1. ^ Who we are. Copyleft is a play on the word Copyright and describes the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions Copyright Alliance is a Lobbying organization formed on May 17 2007 by 29 companies and organizations including groups that represent Songwriters Digital Freedom campaign is a Lobbying Advocacy campaign formed on October 25 2006. The term Digital Rights is indicative of the freedom of individuals to perform actions involving the use of a computer any electronic device or a communications network Creative Commons (CC is a Non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders such as use for The free culture movement is a Social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify Creative works, using the Internet as well as other Public Knowledge (2007). Retrieved on 2007-07-04. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples

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