The Members of the DFC

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• ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC TECHNOLOGY (APT)
• THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES (AALL)
• THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEGAL PUBLISHERS (AALP)
• THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR INTEROPERABLE SYSTEMS (ACIS)
• THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES (ACLS)
• THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (AHA)
• THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (ALA)
• THE ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (ARLIS/NA)
• THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS (AAG)
• THE ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES (ARL)
• THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION (CAA)
• THE COMMITTEE OF CONCERNED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EDUCATORS
• THE COMPUTER & COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (CCIA)
• COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CPSR)
• THE CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION (CCCC)
• CONSORTIUM FOR SCHOOL NETWORKING
• THE CONSORTIUM OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ORGANIZATIONS (COSSA)
• THE CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA (CFA)
• THE CONSUMER PROJECT ON TECHNOLOGY (CPT)
• THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION (EFF)
• THE ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER (EPIC)
• THE HOME RECORDING RIGHTS COALITION (HRRC)
• INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
• THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA)
• THE MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
• THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (NAIS)
• THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH (NCTE)
• THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (NEA)
• THE NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE (NHA)
• THE NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE (NINCH)
• THE NATIONAL SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION (NSBA)
• THE NATIONAL WRITERS UNION (NWU)
• SOCIETY FOR CINEMA STUDIES
• THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS (SAA)
• THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION (SLA)
• THE UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE (USCC)
• THE UNITED STATES DISTANCE LEARNING ASSOCIATION(USDLA)
• THE VISUAL RESOURCES ASSOCIATION (VRA)

ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC TECHNOLOGY (APT) is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit 501(c)(3) coalition of public interest groups and individuals whose goal is to foster broad access to affordable, usable information and communication services and technology. APT's 300 members span traditional professional and disciplinary boundaries, and include representatives of education, health care, rural and urban communities, individuals with disabilities, minority and ethnic groups, consumer advocacy groups, and others concerned with the public interest. Formed in 1989, APT has focused on public and consumer education in the area of communications policy, services, and technology.

THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES (AALL) is a nonprofit association founded in 1906 for educational and scientific purposes. Its membership of more than 4,800 institutions and individuals includes 1700 law libraries and librarians at both for-profit, governmental, and nonprofit organizations. Virtually every publicly accessible law library in the country is a member of AALL, including every law school library, both public and private, every major law firm library, the White House law library, and corporate law libraries. The AALL exists to provide leadership in the field of legal information, to foster professional growth of law librarians, to develop the profession of law librarianship, and to enhance the value of law libraries to the educational, professional and judicial legal community, and to the public.

THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEGAL PUBLISHERS (AALP) The American Association of Legal Publishers (AALP) is a trade association of legal publishers and developers of software used in legal publishing. AALP members publish specific types of government information -- state or federal judicial opinions, state or municipal laws, or state or federal regulations. AALP members believe that government information should not be subject to a copyright by any entity, but should be equally available to all publishers for the cost of dissemination. (Click here to link to AALP member Hyperlaw.)

THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR INTEROPERABLE SYSTEMS (ACIS) is an informal association of firms concerned with the future of the software and computer industries. Membership representatives consist primarily of senior in-house legal executives. ACIS advocates intellectual property policies that carefully balance strong protection and incentives for innovation with the public interest goals of interoperability, open systems and fair competition. Membership consists of over thirty principal members, representing a broad cross-section of the computer and software industry. ACIS was founded in 1991, and since then has filed amicus briefs in several landmark cases applying copyright to the legal protection of software, including Computer Associates v. Altai, Sega v. Accolade, and Lotus v. Borland.

THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES (ACLS) is a nonprofit association founded in 1919, and is the preeminent private humanities organization in the United States. It supports humanistic research efforts through scholarship awards, serves as a national representative to its constituent societies, and helps identify and meet the present and future needs of humanistic scholarship. ACLS is a federation of 51 national scholarly organizations. ACLS activities generally fall into three categories: fellowship support for humanistic research in the US and abroad, international exchanges, and special projects and publications. Its projects are intended to break new ground in academic communication and scholarship.

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (AHA) was established in 1884 and was chartered by Congress in 1889 to act "in the interest of American history, and of history in America." AHA is the oldest and largest membership association for historians. AHA serves its 15,800 individual and 4,100 institutional members as an umbrella organization providing annual meetings, journals, and other professional support while also seeking appropriate connections between historians and the general public.

THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (ALA) is a nonprofit educational organization of 58,000 librarians, library educators, information specialists, library trustees, and friends of libraries representing public, school, academic, state, and specialized libraries dedicated to the improvement of library and information services. A new five-year initiative, ALA Goal 2000, aims to have ALA and librarianship be as closely associated with the public's right to a free and open information society - intellectual participation - as it is with the idea of intellectual freedom.

THE ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (ARLIS/NA), founded in1972, is the only professional organization in North America devoted exclusively to the concerns of art information specialists. The Society's stated mission is: To foster excellence in art librarianship and visual resources curatorship for the advancement of the visual arts. Membership in the Society totals more than 1,350 individuals and organizations from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and overseas. The Society's resources and services are designed to develop its members' own skills and to increase effectiveness of their institutions. ARLIS/NA promotes affiliation and collaboration with other professional agencies and institutions involved in all aspects of the arts.

THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS (AAG) was founded in 1904 to further professional investigations in geography and to encourage the application of geographic findings in education, government, and business. The AAG seeks to promote discussion among geographers and scholars in other fields, stimulate research, and perform services to aid the advancement of its members and the field of geography. AAG has 7,200 individual members.

THE ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES (ARL), founded in 1932, is a nonprofit association of 121 of the largest and most comprehensive research libraries in the United States and Canada. ARL's members include university libraries; large, research-oriented, public libraries, such as the New York Public Library; and certain government libraries such as the National Agricultural Library. The mission of ARL is to identify and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the processing of scholarly communication. ARL's programs and services promote equitable access to, and effective use of, recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community services.

THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION (CAA) is committed to the highest standards of scholarship, connoisseurship, criticism, and teaching of the history of art, and the highest levels of creativity and teaching in the visual arts. Working in concert with other arts and scholarly organizations, CAA informs elected officials and the public at large about the value and significance of the arts and humanities. The association's primary aim is to insure that scholarship and creativity are neither censored nor made subordinate to any political position or purpose. CAA serves as the collective voice for its members, speaking out on issues of concern and advocating for specific federal and state legislation that directly affects the interests of CAA members.

THE COMMITTEE OF CONCERNED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EDUCATORS consists of law professors Keith Aoki (Oregon), James Boyle (American), Dan Burk (Rutgers), Fred Cate (Indiana-Bloomington), Margaret Chon (Syracuse), Julie Cohen (Pittsburgh), Laura Gasaway (North Carolina), Paul Heald (Georgia), Peter Jaszi (American), Dennis Karjala (Arizona State), Leslie Kurtz (California-Davis), David Lange (Duke), Jessica Litman (Wayne State), Mark Lemley (Texas), Peter Menell (California-Berkeley), Neil Netanel (Texas), Robert Oakley (Georgetown), L. Ray Patterson (Georgia), David Post (Temple), Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley), Alfred Yen (Boston College), Diana Zimmerman (NYU). [Institutional affiliations are listed for purposes of identification only.]

THE COMPUTER & COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (CCIA) is an international association of computer and communications firms, as represented by their most senior executives. Small, medium and large in size, CCIA's members include equipment manufacturers, software developers, telecommunications and on-line service providers, re-sellers, systems integrators, third-party vendors and other related business ventures. CCIA's member companies employ well over a half-million workers and generate annual revenues exceeding $200 billion. CCIA's mission is to further its members' business interests by being the leading industry advocate in promoting open, barrier-free competition in the offering of computer and communications products and services worldwide. CCIA's motto is "Open Markets, Open Systems, Open Networks, and Full, Fair, and Open Competition."  

COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CPSR) is to provide the public and policymakers with realistic assessments of the power, promise, and problems of information technology. As concerned citizens, CPSR members work to direct public attention to critical choices concerning the applications of information technology and how those choices affect society. Founded in 1981 by a group of computer scientists concerned about the use of computers in nuclear weapons systems, CPSR has grown into a national public-interest alliance of information technology professionals and other people.

THE CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION (CCCC), a constituent part of the National Council of Teachers of English, is an organization of about 7,500 colleges teachers actively concerned with the teaching of composition in colleges and universities. CCCC elects the members of its Executive Committee by a system of geographical and institutional representation. It draws its officers from an equally wide distribution and rotates its conventions regionally. The CCCC Chair is a member of the NCTE Executive Committee. The broad objective of CCCC is to write teachers of college composition and communication in an organization which can consider all matters relevant to their teaching, including research, subject matter, administration, methods, and students.

CONSORTIUM FOR SCHOOL NETWORKING. CoSN is a non-profit organization formed to further the development and use of telecommunications in K-12 education. Members represent educational, institutional, and commercial organizations, all of whom share the goal of promoting the state of the art in computer networking technologies in schools.  

THE CONSORTIUM OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ORGANIZATIONS (COSSA) has served since 1981 as a nonprofit advocacy organization for the social and behavioral sciences. Supported by over 90 professional associations, scientific societies, universities, and research institutions, COSSA stands alone in representing the full range of social scientists in Washington, D.C.

THE CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA (CFA) is a non-profit association of 240 pro-consumer groups, with a combined membership of 50 million, that was founded in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through advocacy and education.

THE CONSUMER PROJECT ON TECHNOLOGY (CPT) was created by Ralph Nader in 1995 to investigate consumer issues presented by new technologies, including information technologies. CPT has been active in debates over the need for open architecture, common carriage, concentration and cross-ownership rules for telecommunications networks, pricing of residential ISDN telecommunications services, privacy of medical records stored in computer formats, and antitrust and privacy concerns related to Microsoft Windows 95. CPT is also engaged in research on a wide range of intellectual property issues, with an interest in the public's rights to fair use of copyrighted material, the assignment of intellectual property rights for government information and government funded research and development, and the development of ethical policies for intellectual property rights on health care technologies.

THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION (EFF) was founded in July of 1990 to ensure that civil liberties, such as privacy and freedom of expression, are protected as new communications technologies emerge. EFF has been established to help civilize the electronic frontier; to make it truly useful and beneficial not just to a technical elite, but to everyone; and to do this in a way which is in keeping with our society's highest traditions of the free and open flow of information and communication.

THE ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER (EPIC) is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues relating to the National Information Infrastructure, such as the Clipper Chip, the Digital Telephony proposal, national ID cards, medical record privacy, credit records, and the sale of consumer data.

THE HOME RECORDING RIGHTS COALITION (HRRC) is a coalition of consumers, consumer groups, associations, retailers and consumer electronics manufacturers, dedicated to preserving the right to purchase and use home audio and video recording products for noncommercial purposes. HRRC was founded in 1981, after a U.S. Court of Appeals had ruled that time-shift videotaping of television broadcasts was copyright infringement. Since then, the HRRC has supported the consumer's "Right to Tape" and "Right to Rent."

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION. The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) promotes appropriate uses of technology to support and improve teaching and learning. Representing more than 40,000 educators, ISTE provides: Curriculum for learning about technology and integrating it into the classroom; Research results and project reports; Leadership for policy affecting educational technology.

ISTE publishes Learning and Leading With Technology and the Journal of Research on Computing in Education, as well as eight special interest periodicals and educator-developed books and courseware.

ISTE offers members an array of professional career enhancement and enrichment opportunities. These efforts are facilitated through special events, a network of Organization Affiliates, a Private Sector Council, and special interest groups (SIGs), distance education courses, online information services, and government and legislative representation through ISTE's Washington DC-area office.

THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA) was founded in 1883 to promote study, criticism, and research in the more and less commonly taught modern languages and their literatures and to further the common interests of teachers of these subjects. The MLA International Bibliography annually indexes about 45,000 books and articles about scholarship in the field. MLA annual meetings attract up to 10,000 scholars. MLA has 31,700 individual members.

THE MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION is the professional organization in the United States devoted to music librarianship and to all aspects of music materials in libraries. Founded in 1931, MLA provides a forum for study and action on issues that affect music libraries and their users. MLA and its members make significant contributions to librarianship, publishing, standards, scholarship, and the develpment of new information technologies. MLA has 1,818 individual and institutional members and 706 subscribers to its journal Notes.

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (NAIS) is a voluntary membership organization of over 1,000 member schools and associations in the U.S. and abroad and is the national advocate for independent precollegiate education. NAIS membership includes coeducational and single sex day, boarding, and combination day-boarding schools. NAIS schools vary in size from a few dozen students to several thousand and in range of academic levels and missions. They are located in urban, suburban, and rural settings nationwide. Independent schools are distinct from other schools in that they are primarily supported by tuition, charitable contributions, and endowment income rather than tax or church funds, and they are governed by independent boards of directors.

THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH (NCTE) has 100,000 members and subscribers in the United States and other countries, as well as130 regional, state, and local affiliates in the United States and in five Canadian provinces. The world's largest subject-matter educational association, NCTE is devoted to improving the teaching of English and the language arts at all levels of education. Since 1911, NCTE has provided a forum for the profession, an array of opportunities for teachers to continue their professional growth throughout their careers, and a framework for cooperation to deal with issues that affect the teaching of English.

THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (NEA) is America's oldest and largest organization committed to advancing the cause of public education. Founded in 1857 in Philadelphia and now headquartered in Washington, D.C., NEA proudly claims over 2.2 million members who work at every level of education, from pre-school to university graduate programs. NEA has affiliates in every state as well as in over 13,000 local communities across the United States. is America's oldest and largest organization committed to advancing the cause of public education. Founded in 1857 in Philadelphia and now headquartered in Washington, D.C., NEA proudly claims over 2.2 million members who work at every level of education, from pre-school to university graduate programs. NEA has affiliates in every state as well as in over 13,000 local communities across the United States.

THE NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE (NHA) was created in 1981 to unify public interest in support of federal programs in the humanities. The NHA's 85 members represent the humanities as a whole -- scholarly and professional associations; organizations of museums, libraries, historical societies, higher education, and state humanities councils; university and independent centers for scholarship; and other organizations concerned with national policies affecting scholarship and other humanities activities. The estimated number of individual members of the organizations participating in NHA is 750,000.

THE NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE (NINCH) is one response o the challenge of the on-line digital future. NINCH focuses on the ability to digitize all cultural material--works of literature, paintings, photographs, three-dimensional objects, film and video--and make it available to all who have access to the Internet. Digitizing cultural material is an effective means of documenting and preserving it as well as providing direct and democratic access to the wealth of our creative past and present. Networking our national cultural resources in this way would seem to be a critical national imperative, for the benefit of the guardians and scholars of our heritage, for the general public and for future generations. NINCH is preparing a way to coordinate and prepare efforts to make this an intelligent and comprehensive effort.

THE NATIONAL SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION (NSBA) is the nationwide advocacy organization for public school governance. NSBA's mission is to foster excellence and equity in public elementary and secondary education in the United States through local school board leadership. NSBA achieves its mission by amplifying the influence of school boards across the country in all public forums relevant to federal and national education issues, by representing the school board perspective before federal government agencies and with national organizations that affect education, and by providing vital information and services to Federation Members and school boards throughout the nation. Founded in 1940, NSBA is a not-for-profit federation of state associations of school boards across the United States and the school boards of the District of Columbia, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. NSBA represents the nation's 95,000 school board members. These board members govern 15,025 local school districts that serve more than 40 million public school students -- approximately 90 percent of all elementary and secondary school students in the nation.

THE NATIONAL WRITERS UNION (NWU), UAW Local 1981, is the largest union for freelance writers in the U.S. It represents 4,500 journalists, book authors, poets and technical writers throughout the United States. Founded in 1983, they are committed to improving the economic and working conditions of freelance writers through the collective strength of their members.

SOCIETY FOR CINEMA STUDIES. Founded in 1959, the SCS is a professional organization composed of college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others concerned with the study of the moving image. The Society's goals are to promote all areas of media studies within universities and two- and four-year colleges; to encourage and reward excellence in scholarship and writing; to facilitate and improve the teaching of awareness and interaction; to serve its members' professional needs and concerns; to strengthen the ties between the academic community and those who interact with it, from the media industry to the government to the public at large; and to promote the preservation of our film, television, and video heritage.

THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS (SAA) cooperates with other professional organizations, developes of training standards, and advances archival administration as its objectives. In 1990, the SAA Council adopted a strategic plan to exert active leader ship on significant archival issues while promoting high quality archival education programs, building effective coalitions, increasing public awareness of the value of archives, and advancing the identification, preservation and use of electronic records.

THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION (SLA) is an international professional association serving more than 14,000 members of the information profession, including special librarians, information managers, brokers, and consultants. The Association has 56 regional/state chapters in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Arabian Gulf States and 28 divisions representing subject interests or specializations. Special libraries/information centers can be found in organizations with specialized or focused information needs, such as corporations, law firms, news organizations, government agencies, associations, colleges, museums, and hospitals.

THE UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE (USCC) has expressed interest in joining the Digital Future Coalition as a member. The USCC is the public policy agency of the bishops. It is a civil, nonprofit organization. While the USCC shares administrative structures with the NCCB, the USCC is organized around five committees: Communications, Education, Campaign for Human Development, Domestic Policy, and International Policy.

THE UNITED STATES DISTANCE LEARNING ASSOCIATION (USDLA) was formed to support the development and application of istance learning. The USDLA serves distance learning professionals in K through 12 education, higher education, continuing education, corporate training, telemedicine, and military and governmnet training. More information is available at http://www.usdla.org

THE VISUAL RESOURCES ASSOCIATION (VRA) is a non-profit organization established to further research and education in the field of visual resources and to promote a spirit of cooperation among the members of the profession. VRA's membership includes slide and photograph curators, film and video librarians, media professionals, photo archivists, slide and microform producers, rights and reproduction officials, photographers, art historians, and others concerned with visual materials.