Propiedad intelectual y conocimiento público: Derechos del investigador y del ciudadano sobre el copyright

Abstract

Intellectual property is meant to be the key concept to drive the development of information society in the 21st century. The ethical, moral and social principles underlying both early design of Internet architecture and intellectual property laws provide a framework to claim for the publicity of information as the main requirement for cultural, technical and scientific knowledge development. However, new information technologies allow copyright owners to extend their control of both legitimate uses and misuses of copyrighted material. New models of copyright licenses are analyzed and proposed to protect fair use of cognitive work, particularly public scientific and humanistic knowledge, to the extent decided by the author himself.