The Right to Communicate: Towards Explicit Recognition Print
Publication year: 2001   
Author(s): Harms, L.S.   
Category: Concepts   
Source / Location: Intermedia, (29): 32-35   

In 1969, Jean d'Arcy published an article in the EBU Review entitled Communication satellites and the right of man to communicate. The oft-quoted opening sentence of that article reads as follows: 'The time will come when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will have to encompass a more extensive right than man's right to information, first laid down 21 years ago in Article 19. This is the right of man to communicate.' (d'Arcy, 1969)