IP Justice
Type: | Non-profit |
Industry: | Internet |
Founded: | San Fransisco, 2002 |
Founder(s): | Robin Gross |
Headquarters: | 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA |
Country: | USA |
Email: | robin [at] ipjustice.org |
Website: | ipjustice.org |
Twitter: | @ipjustice |
Key People | |
Robin Gross, Executive Director Antonis Broumas, Volunteer Attorney |
IP Justice is an international civil liberties organization that promotes balanced intellectual property law. The organization’s focus is on international treaties, directives, and other trade agreements that address intellectual property rights or impact freedom of expression guarantees. IP Justice is an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in San Fransisco.[1]
IP Justice runs several campaigns on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA),[2] Access to Knowledge (A2K), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO),[3] Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)[4], Internet Governance Forum (IGF),[5] WTO-TRIPS, US IPR Foreign Policy, EU IPR Law and Policy, World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS),[6] European Union Campaign for an Open Digital Environment (CODE) and Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Treaty.
IP Justice is a member of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) and participates at the ICANN through Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO). IP Justice's Executive Director Robin Gross is the Chair of ICANN’s Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC).[7]
History edit
IP Justice was founded in 2002 by Robin Gross at San Fransisco. Robin Gross who was then an attorney at Electronic Frontier Foundation(EFF) started IP Justice to bring international copyright reform. [8]
Board of Directors edit
- Robin D. Gross, Esq. USA
- Professor Giovanni Ziccardi Italy
- Dr. Martin Spirig Switzerland
- Ross Nakasone, Esq. USA
- Allonn E. Levy, Esq. USA
- John Gilmore USA
Advisory Board edit
- James Love
- Eben Moglen