Information Rights

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As formulated by Anne Wells Branscomb in her book Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access.

From the obituary by Philippe Aigrain at http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/?p=62


13 principles of fundamental information-related rights

1. Secrecy: the right to prevent disclosure of information

2. Privacy: the right to prevent unwelcome and unauthorized intrusions

3. Confidentiality: the right to release information with restrictions, to prevent others from obtaining the information without the subject’s consent

4. Publicity: the right to release information into the public domain at a time of place of one’s own choosing

5. Commerciality: the right to sell information for fair value

6. Accessibility: the right to obtain information

7. Reciprocity: the right to receive value in exchange for value given

8. Integrity: the right to control the accuracy and reliability of information

9. Interoperability: the right to transparency in the transfer of information

10. Responsibility: the duty to act responsibly

11. Liability: the right to have grievances redressed

12. Commonality: the right to share information in the public domain

13. Equity: the right to have no wrong go unrighted


7 Positive Intellectual Rights

Based on the previous list, but reworked by Philippe Aigrain:


Commonality, Publicity, Reciprocity, Accessibility, and Integrity. Creation. Quotation.