[A2k] Users' rights

Federico Heinz fheinz@vialibre.org.ar
Mon Jun 29 09:57:19 2009


On 29/06/2009, James Love wrote:
> I think it is appropriate to set out rights for different stakeholders,
> without having to prove in all cases that the rights meet a particular
> standard used for human rights.

That was not my point. I was agreeing with Alan in the idea that thinking in
terms of "limitations and exceptions" is a problem, and only pointing out that
"user's rights" may not be the best alternative because it bolsters an
artificial creator/consumer dichotomy.

I realize that "human rights" has its own problems, because it is usually
interpreted in a narrow sense as defined by the Human Rights declaration,
that's why I offered "people's rights", but there are probably better
alternatives which I am too stupid to think of.

	Fede