Centers, Institutes, Etc.

• Center for Democracy and Technology - Works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age, seeking practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies.
• The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School - Research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development.
• Computer Policy & Law Program, Cornell University - Provides leadership to institutions developing technology policies.
• The Copyright Clearance Center - A not-for-profit organization providing collective copyright licensing services.
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - A public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society.
• Cyberspace Law Institute - Links to papers on cyberspace law.
• Cyber-Liberties, American Civil Liberties Union
• Electronic Privacy Information Center - EPIC focuses public attention on emerging civil liberties issues to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.
• ICANN Watch - Organization that monitors ICANN's performance as manager of the Domain Name System.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation - Protecting rights and promoting freedom in the electronic frontier.
• The UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy
• Social Science Research Network - Abstracts of papers in law and other related social science disciplines raising issues related to the regulation of cyberspace.
• UCITA Online - Articles and other information about the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act.
• Internet Society (ISOC) - Organization dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
• Consumer Project on Technology - A consumer group focusing on intellectual property rights and health care, electronic commerce and competition policy.
• The Digital Future Coalition - DFC is committed to preserving the time-tested balance between the rights of owners of intellectual property and the traditional use privileges of the public.
• Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) - A trade association for the software and digital content industry.
• The Progress & Freedom Foundation - Studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy.
• The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) U.S. Public Policy Committee - Responds to requests for information and technical expertise from U.S. government agencies and seeks to influence relevant U.S. government policies on behalf of the computing community and the public.
• Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies - Its purpose is to research, study, teach, support and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Site includes collection of scholarly resources.
• Software Industry Issues - On-line guide to legislative, regulatory, and policy issues affecting the software industry.
• Telecom Information Resources on the Internet - By Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason, University of Michigan.
• Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis - Promotes greater cooperation in the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure.
• Internet Law and Policy Forum - Dedicated to promoting global growth of e-commerce by contributing to a better understanding of the particular legal issues which arise from the cross border nature of the electronic medium.
• Internet & Telecoms Convergence Consortium - The MIT Internet & Telecoms Convergence Consortium (ITC) researches technical, economic, strategic and policy issues that arise from the convergence of telecommunications and the Internet.
• The Voice on Internet Coalition - Educates consumers and the media on Internet communications technologies.
• American Committee for Interoperable Systems (ACIS) - Organization supporting policies and principles of intellectual property law that provide a balance between rewards for innovation and the belief that computer systems developed by different vendors must be able to communicate fully with each other.
• Coalition for Networked Information - Copyright Forum - To advance scholarship and intellectual productivity.
• Compleat World Copyright Website
• Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues - From Sunsite, UC Berkeley.
• Software Patent Institute - SPI is dedicated to providing information to the public and assisting the USPTO and others by providing technical support and providing access to information and retrieval resources concerning software prior art.
• Coalition for Networked Information - The Coalition's mission is to promote the creation of and access to information resources in networked environments in order to enrich scholarship and to enhance intellectual productivity.
• Internet Policy Institute - An independent, nonprofit research and educational institute providing analysis, research, education, and outreach on economic, social and policy issues affecting and affected by the global development and use of the Internet.
• Internet Societal Task Force - ISTF's mission is to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
• OSC's Technology Policy Group - Addresses the technological, legal, and policy issues embedded in new and emerging computing and information technology applications.
• Internet Public Policy Network - IPPN is a network of Internet policy experts that provides content and services dealing with telecommunications, electronic commerce, and community technology issues.
• Global Internet Project - Committed to fostering continued growth of the Internet.
• Alliance for Public Technology - A coalition of public interest groups and individuals whose goal is to foster broad access to affordable, usable information and communication services and technology.
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse - In-depth information on a variety of informational privacy issues, as well as practical tips on safeguarding personal privacy.
• InterNIC - Provides public information regarding Internet domain name registration services.
• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - ICANN coordinates the assignment of dentifiers that must be globally unique for the Internet to function, such as IP addresses and domain names.
• Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) - Use to do some of the stuff that ICANN now does.