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Rational property organizations come international intergovernmental organizations that require cooperation around copyrights, trademarks and patents.

General organisations
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI) or African Intellectual Property Organization

Specialized organisations
Patent-related organisations
European Patent Organisation (EPO or EPOrg) Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC)

Trademark-related organisations
Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) Benelux Trademarks Office European Trademark Office (?different from OHIM?)

Design-related organisations
Benelux Designs Office (BDO)

Think tanks, institutes and non-profit organizations
American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI) Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) Institute of Patentees and Inventors European Patent Institute (epi) International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI) International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) [http://www.iipi.org/] International Trademark Association (INTA) Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA) Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute Trade Marks, Patents and Designs Federation (TMPDF) [http://www.tmpdf.org.uk/]

EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation
A non-profit, non-partisan organization working to protect fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression, which opposes patents and copyrights as a violation of freedom of speech.

GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
The organization that "started it all" in free or open source software.

Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) Home Page
An organization defending your freedom to make home recordings of music and movies. Did you realize the government's trying to take this away from you?

Musicians Against Copyrighting Of Samples
MACOS is a non-profit organization constructing an international network of musicians whose opinions of sampling and the use of sampling technology oppose the copyrighting of samples.

The League for Programming Freedom
Software patents and user interface copyrights harm programmers, and this organization is dedicated to stopping it.

Liber | Free the Books Campaign
An organization protecting you from Big Government's attempts to keep information away from you even longer after the author's death.

Union for the Public Domain
Non-profit citizens group, seeking to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property.

Public Knowledge
Washington, D.C.-based public interest advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the public interest in access to information.

Creative Commons
A non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright. Offering work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up copyright. It means offering some of an author's rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
A project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and of several university law clinics. The project aims to counter the chilling effects of overreaching "cease and desist" notices of intellectual property infringement.

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