From Quill The Representative on to Cursor Freedom of the Media Freedom of the Media in the Digital Era Papers from the Workshop on Freedom of the Media and the Internet Vienna, 30 November 2002 VIENNA 2003 REPRESENTATIVE ON FREEDOM OF THE MEDIA From Quill to Cursor Freedom of the Media in the Digital Era Papers from the Workshop on Freedom of the Media and the Internet Vienna, 30 November 2002 Vienna 2003 The cover is a drawing entitled Des Schreibers Hand (The Writer’s Hand) by the German author and Nobel prize laureate (1999) Günter Grass. He has kindly let our Office use this as a label for publications of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. The drawing was created in the context of Grass’s novel Das Treffen in Telgte, dealing with literary authors at the time of the Thirty Years War. The publisher thanks the Netherlands for its financial support to this publication © 2003 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media Kärntner Ring 5-7, Top 14, 2. DG, A-1010 Vienna Telephone: +43-1 512 21 450 Telefax: +43-1 512 21 459 E-mail:
[email protected] The authors retain rights on the essay texts. Photograph on the cover: AP, Ng Han Guan Design: WerkstattKrystianBieniek, Vienna Printed by Eugen Ketterl, Vienna Contents Freimut Duve Preface 7 Karin Spaink Introduction - From Quill to Cursor: Freedom of the Media in the Digital Era 9 Verena Metze-Mangold Universal Access to Cyberspace: Strategies of the Intergovernmental Council of the Information for All Programme (IFAP/UNESCO) 31 Páll Thórhallsson Freedom of the Media and the Internet 49 Sandy Starr The Diminishing Importance of Constitutional Rights in the Internet Age 57 Jennifer Jenkins The Importance of Public Domain for Creativity, Innovation, and Culture in the Digital Age 73 Felipe Rodriquez Burning the Village to Roast the Pig: Censorship of Online Media 85 Glossary 110 The Authors 116 Freimut Duve Preface The Internet offers an unprecedented means for people all over the world to distribute, exchange and access information.