Intellectual Property and the Public Domain

Recent Grants

Intellectual property and the public domain

Number of Grants: 27

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)

American Library Association, Office for Information Technology Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$630,000 in support of a project on the implications of digital copyright for libraries and their patrons (over three years). (2005)

American University, School of Communication (Washington, D.C.)
$100,000 in support of a project to document and disseminate a collection of best practices that would help guide the use of copyrighted materials in new documentary film productions. (2005)

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

Center for International Environmental Law (Washington, D.C.)
$85,000 in support of a feasibility study and a pilot workshop that would inform the development of a program to enhance the participation of developing countries in bilateral intellectual property negotiations. (2005)

Center for International Environmental Law -- U.S. (Washington, D.C.)
$450,000 in support of an intellectual property project (over three years). (2006)

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)

Creative Commons (San Francisco, California)
$750,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2005)

Duke University, School of Law (Durham, North Carolina)
$50,000 in support of the distribution of a comic book about fair use and documentary film in the digital age. (2006)

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

Essential Information (Washington, D.C.)
$600,000 in support of the Consumer Project on Technology's work on international intellectual property policies (over three years). (2005)

Future of Music Coalition (Washington, D.C.)
$75,000 in support of a study of the music sample licensing process. (2005)

Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$750,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2005)

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)

Intellectual Property Watch (Geneva, Switzerland)
$300,000 in support of an independent news service, which reports on the processes of intellectual property policymaking at the international level and support for long-term planning efforts (over three years). (2005)

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)

South Centre (Geneva, Switzerland)
$450,000 in support of a program on intellectual property, which conducts independent policy analysis and research on international intellectual property issues (over three years). (2006)

Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$600,000 in support of a project on copyright and fair use for media literacy (over two years). (2006)

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)

University of Illinois at Chicago, University Library (Chicago, Illinois)
$70,000 in support of a conference on open source publishing. (2005)

Yale University School of Law (New Haven, Connecticut)
$600,000 in support of work to provide an intellectual framework and empirical evidence for evaluating the impact of various international intellectual property policies on developing countries (over three years). (2006)

Yale University, School of Law (New Haven, Connecticut)
$65,000 in support of the Access to Knowledge conference. (2005)