General principles for a new regulation on access to public information

Abstract

The right of information has been described by scholars and doctrine as a special mode of manifestation of man, which is communication, natural form of relationship, individual or social, that the right narrows to raise it to the category of relationship legal; so the right to information derived from the right that man has to manifest itself with others and part of the natural need to interact with the group to which it belongs. The right of information has been considered as the set of legal rules aimed at the protection, regulation and delimitation of the right to obtain and disseminate ideas, opinions and facts with character noticiables, ie, with public significance; is the set of legal rules applicable to the reporting process, including inter alia the legal status of the media, the professional status of journalists, to the copyright of those who generate information, etc.. The right of information represents the branch of law that covers all the legal rules governing the transmission of information and the effective protection of the right to freedom of information, how they are recognized and are constitutionally established.