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AFFECT (formerly 4CITE)—Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions

Agency for Instructional Technology

American Association of Higher Education

American Association of Law Libraries

American Association of Universities

American Association of University Professors

ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law

American Communication Association

American Intellectual Property Association

American Library Association

American Society of Journalists and Authors

American Society of Media Photographers

Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)

Artists Rights Foundation
Offline

ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Authors)

Association of American College and Universities

Association for Educational Communications and Technology

Association of Research Libraries

Association of American Publishers

Association of American University Presses

Association of Shareware Professionals

Australian Copyright Council

The Author's Registry

Berkman Center for Internet and Society

BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.)

Business Software Alliance

Copyright’s Commons Center for the Public Domain 

Cato Institute

Center for Academic Integrity 

Center for the Public Domain 

Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI)

Coalition for Networked Information

CETUS (Consortium for Educational Technology for University Systems)
Offline

Consumers Project on Technology: Access to Knowledge

Copyright Advisory Network. American Library Association, Office of Information Technology Policy.

Copyright Clearance Center

Copyright Society of Australia

Copyright Society of the US

Council on Library and Information Resources

Creative Commons

Digital Future Coalition

Directors Guild of America

EDUCAUSE

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

Electronic Frontier Foundation

European American Music Distributors Corporation

Federal Bar Association

Harry Fox Agency

Home Recording Rights Coalition

IBM Intellectual Property Network

iCopyright

<indecs>™ Framework Ltd, Interoperability of data in e-commerce systems

The Institute for CyberInformation at Kent State University

Instructional Telecommunications Council

Intellectual Property Owners Association

Intellectual Property Mall at Franklin Pierce Law Center

Intellectual Property Institute-UK

International Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Foundation 

International Federation of Library Associations

The International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) 

International Trademark Association

Internet2 Peer to Peer Working Group

John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property Law

John Marshall Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law

League for Programming Freedom 

Licensing Executives Society International

Media Image Resource Alliance(MIRA)

Motion Picture Association of America

Motion Picture Licensing Corporation

Museum Computer Network

Music Publishers' Association of the United States

NACUA, National Association of College and University Attorneys

National Educational Association

National Education Association Higher Education

National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services

National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage

National Music Publishers Association

National Multimedia Association of America
Offline

National Writers Union

Open Archives Initiative

Open Source Initiative

Public Broadcasting System

Public Domain Foundation

Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

SESAC, Performing rights organization for Songwriters and publishers

SPARC: The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

SCOLE: The Sloan Center for On-Line Education
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Software and Information Industry Association

Union for the Public Domain

US-China Intellectual Property Networks

U.S. National Endowment for the Arts

United States Copyright Office

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Writer's Guild of America