Openness and digital human rights – Open Future

The old ideals of free flow of, access, and sharing of information that propelled the open movement in the early 2000s are ill-equipped to address the challenges of the modern internet related to the surveillance and profiling of users and the add-based business model of companies that dominate the internet landscape. Because of the evolution of th... See more

Early in the twenty-first century, the attempt to enact exclusivity-based laws for controlling access to digital resources in the US gave rise to the open movement. The movement quickly gained momentum. The champions of openness hoped that universal access to knowledge and culture, made possible thanks to the power of the Internet, would contribute... See more

As the regime governing intellectual property rights evolved and began disproportionately favoring IP rights owners, the concept of openness became a tool for challenging power relations and striving for more equality. In that sense, the promotion of reuse and access to informational resources was fully compatible with the need to defend human righ... See more

The open movement, with its focus on access and public interest, has an important role in the ongoing rethinking of online privacy and the recognition of new challenges of datafication and governing online data, which cannot be solved by relying on the current data protection regime.

Inspired by ideas of an uninterrupted flow of knowledge and information and driven by the critique of intellectual property in digital works[14], one of the open movement’s guiding principles became the belief that enabling access to online information resources would have positive social effects and that these benefits would outweigh the interest ... See more