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Tractatus germanico-informaticus – Some fragmentary ideas on DRM and information law

  • Auteur-e: Thomas Hoeren
  • Domaines juridiques: Propriété intellectuelle
  • Proposition de citation: Thomas Hoeren, Tractatus germanico-informaticus – Some fragmentary ideas on DRM and information law, in : Jusletter 7. November 2005
Information has become one of the leading topics in European regulation and judication. The question how to balance rights in information against freedom of information is now discussed controversially in all European states especially in the light of DRM. The controversies has led to a point where people believe in a new legal area arising out at the horizon: Information law. The following considerations describe the main elements and ideas of the recent discussion on DRM and «information law» in Europe and include the last trends in the discussion in Germany.

Table of contents

  • 1. Information is everything that is the case.
  • 1.1. Nobody knows what information is.
  • 1.2. But everybody has information.
  • 1.3. Information is overall.
  • 1.4. Information is by its nature – what?
  • 1.5. Information should be regarded as being a common good.
  • 2. What is law?
  • 2.1. Nobody knows what law is.
  • 2.2. But every community has legal rules.
  • 2.3. Law is not overall.
  • 2.4. Law lags technology.
  • 3. What is a theory?
  • 3.1. The concept of regulative ideas
  • 3.2. Functionality as the regulative idea of technology
  • 3.3. Efficiency as the regulative idea of economics
  • 4. Informational justice as the regulative idea of information law
  • 4.1. Deconstructive power
  • 4.2. Informational justice is a regulative idea to determine state regulation.
  • 4.3. Information should be free.
  • 4.4. Property rights in information need be justified.
  • 4.5. Property rights in information need to be constitutionally justified.
  • 4.6. Property rights which are not constitutionally justified cannot be accepted.
  • 4.7. Balance of rights
  • 4.8. The impact of functionality
  • 4.9. The impact of efficiency
  • 5. The impact of procedural justice
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