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 <ziggytheb...@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.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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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