NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Freedom of information

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. ...

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firstamendmentcenter.org: Press Freedom of Information - Overview (2984 words)
	The 1966 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is arguably the most important tool Americans have to oversee the workings of their government.
	The Court reasoned that because the summaries were derived from information in FBI files that plainly were assembled for law enforcement purposes, information does not lose that status simply when it is summarized in a new document for non-law enforcement purposes.
	But where information is submitted voluntarily, the appeals court held that no showing of likely competitive injury was required; all that a submitter had to show was that it did not customarily disclose the information to the public.

Freedom of information legislation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2745 words)
	In Australia, the Freedom of Information Act 1982 was passed at the federal level in 1982, applying to all "ministers, departments and public authorities" of the Commonwealth.
	While this information would not often be released, and sometimes only under the thirty year rule, the fact that government ministers now do not annotate and sign documents creates the concerns that while government is open it is not accountable as to who did or saw what or how decision making process works.
	The Freedom of Information Act of 19 June 1970 is the implementation of freedom of information legislation in Norway on a national level.

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