- Secrecy: the right to prevent disclosure of information
- Privacy: the right to prevent unwelcome and unauthorized intrusions
- Confidentiality: the right to release information with restrictions, to prevent others from obtaining the information without the subject’s consent
- Publicity: the right to release information into the public domain at a time of place of one’s own choosing
- Commerciality: the right to sell information for fair value
- Accessibility: the right to obtain information
- Reciprocity: the right to receive value in exchange for value given
- Integrity: the right to control the accuracy and reliability of information
- Interoperability: the right to transparency in the transfer of information
- Responsibility: the duty to act responsibly
- Liability: the right to have grievances redressed
- Commonality: the right to share information in the public domain
- Equity: the right to have no wrong go unrighted
Many of these rights (or duties) have been invoked abusively. For instance 5. Commerciality has been invoked to claim barriers to the usage of information that are incompatible with privacy, accessibility, interoperability and commonality. But this list is a wonderful platform for thinking about information. In my own list of 7 positive intellectual rights, I retained Commonality, Publicity, Reciprocity, Accessibility, and Integrity. I added Creation and Quotation. The omission of these rights of reuse is of course representative of the limits of thinking about information at the time of Who owns information?. But Anne Wells Branscomb had done the largest part of what I came to consider as my task. I had not forgotten about the book, often mentioned it to friends, but did not remember this list. Then, exhausted from trips and overworking I walked randomly in my apartment, and marvels of perception, I spotted the book … because it was wrongly placed in alphabetic order. I opened it, and here is the list. Thanks.
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