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| Title: | ‘Copyright World’ and Access to Information: Conjoined via the Internet |
| Authors: | Sebastian, Tania |
| Keywords: | Access to information
A2K
Copyright
Internet
Human Rights |
| Issue Date: | May-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | Access to information, despite
wide intellectual acceptance, is
still a struggle for many in various quarters of the world. In today’s era
there exist constraints in the way information is shared; dividing continents
based on the way information is accessible to its people. This paper strives to
understand the underpinning of the accessibility to information in the human
right perspective, with a special
mention of the current debate on accessibility of the Internet on the lines of
concepts which constitute emerging access
to knowledge coalition. The arguments of the present paper take the
following form: It begins with an introduction to the oft-debated access to
information question; goes on to elucidate the view of various scholars on why
information needs to be free and extends the aspect of freedom of information
to the human right paradigm; then expounds the activism of ‘access to knowledge’
advocates for access to information; and finally talks about European Union’s
legalization of access to information on the Internet as a ‘fundamental right’
before conclusion. |
| Page(s): | 235-242 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1076 (Online); 0971-7544 (Print) |
| Source: | JIPR Vol.17(3) [May 2012]
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