CopyNight is just one of a growing number of IP-focused grassroots organizations. The debate about IP regulation has raged in academia since the Internet's early days, but over the past year students and professionals have taken up the cause. Their loose coalition takes its cues from IP heavyweights like Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig and policy organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge, which worry that the recent copyright term extension and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act are stifling innovation. (Passed in 1998, the DMCA allows copyright owners to lock up digital content behind technological walls, and makes it illegal to break those walls.) These new groups, collectively known as the free culture movement, hope to raise the national profile of IP issues.
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