In 1999 he founded The Center for the Public Domain.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

In February 1999, an unsigned article that media outlets attributed to Falwell was published in the National Liberty Journal – a promotional publication of the university he founded – claimed that the Teletubby named Tinky Winky was intended as a gay role model.

* Matrix Games, an American video game publisher founded 1999

The OSGi Alliance ( formerly known as the Open Services Gateway initiative, now an obsolete name ) is an open standards organization founded in March 1999 that originally specified and continues to maintain the OSGi standard.

* 1900 – D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman, founded Gold Kist ( d. 1999 )

Goldman's Knowledge in a Social World came out in 1999 ; he is currently editor of the journal Episteme: a journal of social epistemology, which was founded in 2004.

Square Visual Works ( CG studio ), Square Sounds ( sound studio ), Squartz ( quality assurance ) and Square Next were all founded in June 1999.

More independent but clearly to the left of the political spectrum are the Centro de Investigaciones de Relaciones Internacionales y Desarrollo ( CIDOB ) founded in 1973 ; and the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior ( FRIDE ) established in 1999 by Diego Hidalgo and main driving force behind projects such as the Club de Madrid, a group of democratic former heads of state and government, or the Foreign Policy Spanish Edition.

The NLA was founded in the fall of 1999, and was led by former KLA Commander Ali Ahmeti, nephew of one of the founders of the KLA, but was out of the public eye until it began to openly engage the Macedonian military and police.

It was founded in autumn 1999 by science fiction writer Eric Flint and publisher Jim Baen to determine whether the availability of books free of charge on the Internet encourages or discourages the sale of their paper books.

In 1999, prominent media personalities Henk Westbroek and Jan Nagel, chairs of the highly successful Leefbaar Utrecht and Leefbaar Hilversum parties respectively, founded Leefbaar Nederland as a spin off from their local parties.

* PyroTechnix, founded as Computer Presentation, acquired February 1996, closed in 1999.

* Headgate Studios in Bountiful, Utah, founded in 1992, acquired April 1996, sold to original owner in 1999.

* Synergistic Studios, founded in 1978, acquired in 1996, studio closed in 1999.

Stuckism is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art.

* Blind ( band ), an Australian Christian rock group founded in 1999

AF2 ( styled as af2 and short for arenafootball2 ) was the name of the Arena Football League's developmental league ; it was founded in 1999 and played its first season in 2000.

The California Missions Foundation, a volunteer, tax-exempt organization, was founded in 1999 by Richard Ameil, an eighth generation Californian.

SUGEN was a company focused on protein kinase inhibitors, founded in 1991 in Redwood City, California and acquired by Pharmacia in 1999.

For almost two decades they had no kingdom, but in the year 1999, Thráin I founded a kingdom at the Lonely Mountain.

In 1999, Clooney founded the Rosemary Clooney Music Festival, held annually in Maysville, her hometown.

The Steelheads were founded in 1999 as the Sacramento Steelheads by businessman Bruce Portner.

Mégret and his faction left the FN in January 1999 and founded the National Republican Movement ( MNR ), effectively splitting the FN in half at most levels.

Five years later in 1999, the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Fine Arts was created and the Faculty of Humanities founded.

Since then the band have released five albums: In It for the Money ( 1997 ), Supergrass ( 1999 ), Life on Other Planets ( 2002 ), Road to Rouen ( 2005 ) and Diamond Hoo Ha ( 2008 ), as well as a decade-ending compilation called Supergrass is 10 ( 2004 ).

* 1999 Albany-Colonie Diamond Dogs

East Bank High School was consolidated with nearby DuPont High School in 1999 to form Riverside High School at Diamond.

By 1999, the illegal diamond trade was estimated by the World Diamond Council to have been reduced to 3. 06 % of the world's diamond production.

Plasma Diamond Reactors ( Stefan University Press Series on Frontiers in Science and Technology ) 1999 ISBN 1-889545-23-6.

Diamond Science and Technology Vol 2 ( Stefan University Press Series on Frontiers in Science and Technology ) 1999 ISBN 1-889545-24-4.

Diamond dust is often associated with halos around the sun ( sun dogs ) and other related optical phenomena ( Greenler, 1999 ).

* " Darkrose and Diamond ", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct-Nov 1999

In the 1990s he dated soul singer Angie Stone and helped produce her debut album Black Diamond in 1999.

The 1999 compilation The Best of Jim Diamond compiles singles and B-sides from his short time with A & M Records.

* The Sadies – Pure Diamond Gold ( 1999 )

* The Diamond Signature ( Penny Rimbaud, 1999, AK Press )

The modern five-pound issues are not issued for circulation, but to mark events or commemorations of national or Royal significance, including the following: Queen Mother 90th birthday ( 1990 ); 40th anniversary of the Coronation ( 1993 ); 70th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II ( 1996 ); Golden Wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ( 1997 ); Prince of Wales ' 50th birthday ( 1998 ); Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial ( 1999 ); Millennium commemoration ( 1999 & 2000 ); Queen Mother Centenary ( 2000 ); Queen Victoria anniversary ( 2001 ); Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee ( 2002 ); Queen Mother Memorial ( 2002 ); Queen Elizabeth II Coronation 50th anniversary ( 2003 ); Centenary of the Entente Cordiale ( 2004 ); 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar ( 2005 ); 200th anniversary of the death of Horatio Nelson ( 2005 ); 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II ( 2006 ); Diamond Wedding of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ( 2007 ) 60th birthday of Prince of Wales ( 2008 ).

For his efforts, Schmidt has been named American Baseball Coaches Association / Diamond Sports NCAA Division III Central Regional " Coach Of The Year " nine times ( 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2009 ), won the ABCA / Louisville Slugger Conference Award seven times from 1993 – 99, and has been named CCIW " Baseball Coach of the Year " on 10 occasions ( 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2009 ).

In 1999 Dr. Diamond was appointed as President of the International Academy of Sex Research, and in 2001 / 02 as President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.

Reflecting additional growth in music sales, the Diamond award was instituted in 1999 for albums or singles selling ten million units.

Diamond awards, honoring those artists whose sales of singles or albums reached 10, 000, 000 copies, were introduced in 1999.

On October 20, 1999, the PBS series Great Performances broadcast a production directed by Matthew Diamond, who was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Direction of a Variety or Music Program.

* Black Diamond ( Angie Stone album ), a 1999 album by R & B / soul singer Angie Stone

In May 1999, Nash won the WCW World Championship for the second time by defeating Diamond Dallas Page at Slamboree.

In 1999, a new building adjacent to the old one was opened at Slotsholmen, known as the Black Diamond.

Dominik Diamond returned to games television first as an interviewee in the 1999 documentary Games Wars, in which he commented that boys getting turned on by Lara Croft was tragic and " desperately sad ".

* 1999 Whiteflash Inc .. brands in the US and is the first Hearts and Arrows branded diamond ( A CUT ABOVE ® Diamond ) to be sold exclusively on the Internet.

He later co-presented the breakfast show with Anne Diamond, leaving the station in 1999.