[GOAL] Re: Is access to information a human right?

[Chris Zielinski]

Thanks for the message, Peter, and for the interesting links: there's
nothing new under the sun! I found a couple of your examples so interesting
that I propose to dust them off and re-use them - with full credit to you,
of course.

At this point, I don't see what I am doing as campaigning for anything, but
rather trying to pick apart the various threads that converge on access to
information.

Best,

Chris

On 5 January 2015 at 20:27, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Completely support you Chris. I blogged about this 3-4 years back but got
> little take-up
>
>
> http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/09/30/access-to-scientific-publications-should-be-a-fundamental-right/
>
> reported later...
>
>
> http://access.okfn.org/2012/03/20/scientific-social-networks-are-the-future-of-science/
>
> We need to keep arguing this!
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Chris Zielinski <ziggytheblue at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for this comment, Jenny, and for sharing the link to Farida
>> Shaheed's Report on "The right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress
>> and its applications". She makes some interesting points regarding the
>> right of access to scientific (and cultural) knowledge, and notes that
>> governments are increasingly insisting on open access to the results of
>> government-funded research. While this is indeed a chink in the armor, it
>> is a long way short of comprehensive open access to all information
>> essential to human development.
>>
>> Altogether, the UDHR/Covenant do not offer the interpretation that access
>> to information is a human right.You would in fact have to conclude the
>> reverse - if authors/creators have a human right to their output, which
>> allows them to decide all significant further uses (publishing, reading,
>> etc) of their work then surely nobody else does.Note that I am arguing this
>> strictly from a rights perspective, not applied law.
>>
>> In the next few weeks I hope to develop a few more building blocks for my
>> argument in the blog, before trying to pull them all together.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On 5 January 2015 at 15:00, Jenny Molloy <jenny.molloy at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Chris, this is very interesting and I look forward to reading
>>> your future blogs on reconciling access to knowledge with authors rights.
>>>
>>> I've found the following article to be a good exploration of discussions
>>> on the normative content of the 'right to enjoy the benefits of scientific
>>> progress' (part of Article 27 of UDHR):
>>>
>>> Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Farida
>>> Shaheed
>>> The right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its
>>> applications
>>>
>>> http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session20/A-HRC-20-26_en.pdf
>>>
>>> Jenny
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 31 December 2014 at 22:02, Chris Zielinski <ziggytheblue at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I’ve just posted a blog that might be of interest to members of this
>>>> list. The blog seeks to answer the question, “Is access to information a
>>>> human right?” by carrying out a short, non-specialist analysis of Articles
>>>> of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is at
>>>> http://ziggytheblue.wordpress.com   – Wordpress runs a short free
>>>> registration step and sends you no subsequent spam.
>>>>
>>>> Happy New Year to all!
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> Chris Zielinski chris at chriszielinski.com
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