Stjórnlagaráð

Right of reverse engineering

The right of a citizen to study the functioning of any technological

product that he owns or rents, and to publish what he learns about it,

may not be limited by any law, or any contract that was accepted by

the citizen without negotiation.

Copyright and patent power can be decreased, not just increased

Copyrights and patents are temporary privileges created to act as

artificial incentives for promoting progress.

The state may through legislation increase or decrease the extent of

existing copyright and patent privileges, or future ones, in order to

achieve the best balance between the two pertinent public goals:

promoting new works and ideas, and freedom to use existing published

works and known ideas.

Freedom from computerized surveillance

The right of privacy from technological surveillance shall not be

infringed without justification.  No person, entity, public agency, or

combination of those may use computing technology to systematically

and automatically store beyond a short time any information about

individuals, except when inherently necessary for dealings with those

individuals that they enter into, or pursuant to a court order

detailing the individuals to be surveilled and the information to be

stored.

Freedom of panorama, and no photography bans

The state shall make no law limiting occasional static or video

photography of outdoor scenes and activities.  See

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama

Prohibition of general-purpose identity documents

The state shall not issue credentials to invididuals except limited to

a specific purpose, and no such credential shall be checked for any

purpose other than the one for which it was issued.

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Dr Richard Stallman

President, Free Software Foundation