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Information Ethics: Codes, Cases and Conclusions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Laurence W. Bebbington
Laurence W. Bebbington
Affiliation:
Laurence W. Bebbington is Law Librarian at the University of Nottingham, a well known speaker and writer on topics of interest to legal information professionals, the editor of the IT column in this journal and a member of the Editorial Board.
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Extract

“If the Information Society is to be both open and universal it should develop along the principles embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They are, among others, the right to freedom of expression, free access to information, the right to education and the right to participate in cultural life.’ (UNESCO 2000)

Type
Questions of Ethics
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , Spring 2003 , pp. 44 - 50
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2003

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