Freedom of information can mean:

• whether a particular piece of information can be freely created, read, modified, copied and distributed; see free content (as well as free culture and free software)
• freedom to express one's opinions or ideas, generally, within a society; see freedom of speech
• the accessibility of government-held information; see Freedom of information legislation.

Also, see freedom for other meanings of freedom. Information is a word which has many different meanings in everyday usage and in specialized contexts, but as a rule, the concept is closely related to others such as data, instruction, knowledge, meaning, communication, representation, and mental stimulus. ... Free content is any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content upon which no legal restriction has been placed that significantly interferes with peoples freedom to use, understand, redistribute, improve, and share the content. ... The book cover Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (2004) is a book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license (by-nc 1. ... Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, is software which can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restriction. ... For the song by the California punk band Pennywise, see Society (song). ... The examples and perspective in this article do not represent a worldwide view. ... Accessibility is a general term used to describe how easy it is for people to get to, use, and understand things. ... Over sixty countries around the world have implemented some form of freedom of information legislation, which sets rules on governmental secrecy. ... Personal liberty is one of the meanings of freedom. Freedom refers, in a very general sense, to the state of being free (i. ...