Grants awarded

To support Public.Resource.Org's work to make edicts of government freely available online.

To support the technical and legal maintenance of Creative Commons Licenses.

Towards a three year membership

For research and advocacy at the World Intellectual Property Office to secure reforms for greater access to scholarly research through exceptions to copyright law.

To promote copyright law reform and regulation at EU and national level to enable libraries to facilitate greater access to and use of copyrighted works for cultural, educational and research purposes.

To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States.

To make German government documents and unfairly restricted information freely available online.

To develop policies and legal strategies to expand and strengthen the public domain, ensuring that everyone can always freely reuse public domain content.

To support work to extract taxonomic data from scientific publications and make them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), and to promote the resulting repository as the standard in the taxonomic community.

To help more of the world’s public art galleries, libraries, archives and museums make their collections data and images freely available under Creative Commons licences or waivers.

To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States and support academic community control of key research communication infrastructure.

To advance all forms of freedom of communication, wherever these are unduly constrained by copyright and information laws.

To enable Public.Resource.Org to expand its work in three key areas: access to edicts of government, text and data mining and access to knowledge.

For research and advocacy at the World Intellectual Property Office to secure reforms for greater access to scholarly research through exceptions to copyright law.

To promote copyright law reform and regulation at EU and national level to enable libraries to facilitate greater access to and use of copyrighted works for cultural, educational and research purposes.

To set up and support a strategic advocacy organization that will increase the ability of the open movement to strategically influence digital policy-making in the European Union.

To support the Lumen database, which collects and analyses legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials.

To support research, publication and advocacy for global copyright reform to provide greater access to academic research.

To support Public.Resource.Org’s work to make legal statutes and technical and safety standards freely available online.

To support work to extract taxonomic data from scientific publications and make them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), and to promote the resulting repository as the standard in the taxonomic community.