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Public Knowledge is a Washington, D.C.-based public interest group working to defend citizens' rights in the emerging digital culture.

The goals of the Copyright Society's Kid's Website are to provide: * an educational tool to define, explain, and apply copyright issues in language understandable to Middle School students. * an educational resource on copyright issues for teachers and parents of 5th - 8th graders who are engaged in a creative process. * instructions about how to protect your own creations by registering them with the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The site is designed so that students may use it on their own or in connection with classroom activities. The material provided on this site may be reproduced for educational, noncommercial purposes, provided that the following copyright notice is included: "Copyright 2001, The Copyright Society of the U.S.A.," and the following acknowledgment also included: "These materials are reproduced from the copyrightkids.org website courtesy of Friends of Active Copyright Education (FA©E), an initiative of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.."