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.mol...@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 <ziggytheb...@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 ch...@chriszielinski.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> GOAL mailing list >> GOAL@eprints.org >> http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > >
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