Intellectual Property and the Public Domain

Recent Grants

Intellectual property and the public domain

Number of Grants: 12

American Library Association (Washington, D.C.)
$385,000 in support of work on the implications of digital copyright for libraries and their patrons (over two years). (2007)

Center for Democracy and Technology (Washington, D.C.)
$650,000 in support of the digital copyright project (over four years). (2007)

Consumers International (London, United Kingdom)
$250,000 in support of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, a project that seeks to represent and articulate a consumer perspective in international intellectual property negotiations (over three years). (2007)

Creative Commons (San Francisco, California)
$700,000 in support of general operations and the planning of an endowment campaign (over three years). (2008)

Creative Commons (San Francisco, California)
$500,000 in support of Science Commons (over two years). (2007)

Electronic Frontier Foundation (San Francisco, California)
$600,000 in support of a domestic intellectual property program (over three years). (2007)

Intellectual Property Watch (Geneva, Switzerland)
$725,000 in support of the independent news service, which reports on the processes of intellectual property policymaking at the international level (over four years). (2007)

Knowledge Ecology International (Washington, D.C.)
$350,000 in support of work on international intellectual property policies (over two years). (2008)

Library of Congress Congressional Research Service (Washington, D.C.)
$185,000 in support of research and educational activities of the Congressional Research Service on various intellectual property topics (over three years). (2007)

National Academy of Sciences Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 in support of a conference and research on university management of intellectual property since the 1980 passage of the Bayh-Dole act. (2007)

Public Knowledge (Washington, D.C.)
$675,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2007)

Tides Foundation (San Francisco, California)
$250,000 in support of Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net), a project that educates librarians in developing countries about copyright issues (over three years). (2007)