Everyone has the right
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antonh
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Feb 06, 2008 12:27 AM
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Since 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been
the most important, and the most effective, inspiration for per-
sonal, national and international efforts to secure and protect basic
rights of mankind.
-- James H. Ottoway, Introduction, Everyone Has the Right
I'm currently looking at the importance of freedom in Intellectual Property rights, particularly in patent law, and I'm just making a note of this resource - lots of stuff on the importance of free speech in the context of press freedom. The introduction has a very good breakdown of the text of Article 19, explaining the significance of individual words and phrases in it.
If you don't fancy downloading the PDF, have a look in the Google cache at a HTML version.

