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The following selection does not claim to present an exhaustive listing, but rather picks some of the most interesting provider of independent content.
Independent Content Provider
| URL
| Classification of Content
| Association for Progressive Communication (APC)
| http://www.apc.org
| Social issues, environment, economy, Africa, women
| ZaMir.net
| http://www.zamir.net
| Anti-war, human rights (Yugoslavia)
| Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
| http://www.igc.org
| Peace, economy, human rights, democracy, environment, women, anti-racism
| FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
| http://www.fair.org
| Media
| ZNet
| http://www.zmag.org
| Selection: culture, community/race/religion/ethnicity, ecology, economics/class, gender/kinship/sexuality, government/polity, international relations
| B2-92
| http://www.freeb92.net
| Politics
| FREEnet (The Network for Research, Education and Engineering)
| http://www.free.net
| Research/academic/education
| c2o (Community Communications Online)
| http://www.c20.org
| Environment, social issues, human rights
| Antenna
| http://antenna.apc.org
| Development co-operation/emergency aid, environment, ecology, energy, media, art, culture
| PERDCA (The Project for Economic Reform and Development in Central Asia)
| http://www.silk.org
| Telecommunications, education, medicine
| Comlink
| http://www.comlink.org
| Peace, ecology, social issues, human rights
| Adbusters
| http://www.adbusters.org
| Culture, art
| RTMark
| http://www.rtmark.com
| Culture, art
| Interdoc
| http://www.oneworld.org/interdoc/
| Labor, human rights, development, environment, peace
| GreenNet
| http://www.gn.apc.org
| Environment, peace, human rights, development
| UN (United Nations)
| http://www.un.org
| Peace, economy, social issues, development, justice, human rights, international law, humanitarian assistance and various specialized agencies
| Flipside
| http://www.flipside.org
| Economic, political, social, environmental
| Human Rights Watch
| http://www.hrw.org
| Human rights
| nettime
| http://www.nettime.org
| Culture
| FoeBud e.V. (Verein zur Förderung des öffentlichen bewegten und unbewegten Datenverkehrs e.V.)
| http://www.foebud.org
| Research, politics, culture, arts, future/technology
| Corporate Watch
| http://www.corpwatch.org
| Social issues, politics, economy, environment
| Overcoming Consumerism
| http://www.hooked.net/users/verdant/index.htm
| Social issues, economy, environment
| NewsWatch
| http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/jsexton/NewsWatch/
| Media
| IFEX (International Freedom of Expression Exchange)
| http://www.ifex.org
| Media, human rights
| FAS (Federation of American Scientists)
| http://www.fas.org
| Science, technology, public policy
| UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
| http://www.unesco.org
| Education, science, culture, communication
| Umwelt
| http://www.umwelt.org
| Environment
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1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT)
The
1996  WIPO
Copyright Treaty, which focused on taking steps to protect copyright
"in the digital age" among other provisions 1) makes clear
that computer programs are protected as literary works, 2) the
contracting parties must protect databases that constitute
intellectual creations, 3) affords authors with the new right of
making their works "available to the public", 4) gives
authors the exclusive right to authorize "any communication to
the public of their works, by wire or wireless means ... in such a
way that members of the public may access these works from a place
and at a time individually chosen by them." and 5) requires the
contracting states to protect anti-copying technology and copyright
management information that is embedded in any work covered by the
treaty. The WCT is available on:  http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/diplconf/distrib/94dc.htm
 http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/diplconf/dis...
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