Just a bit of news from the UK. The BBC reports that

The Open Rights Group (Org) was founded last year on the back of an online pledge from 1,000 people to fund the group with £5 a month each.

To date 650 people have honoured that promise, enough to create part-time roles for two staff members.

ORG bills itself as the British version of the EFF. The article also references Billy Bragg's success at getting MySpace to step back from claiming exclusive rights to music and media uploaded to the site.