Pro-open culture organizations




  • Free Software Foundation (FSF)
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
  • Creative Commons (CC)
  • Demand Progress
  • Fight for the Future
  • Pirate Party
  • Plan S, by major funders of scientific research

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