Open access to public content
The Pirate Party demands that all content created by public authorities or with public subsidies be freely accessible to the general public. Accessibility must not be obstructed by application procedures, licenses, fees or technical means. Content is made available online in open formats and archived. Dissemination and commercial exploitation are expressly permitted. Exceptions from the publication duty are only possible for significant reasons; these must be explained in writing for every individual case.
The Pirate Party stands for consistent democracy, openness and transparency. We want every person to have the basic means to understand and evaluate the workings of all public and publicly financed organs (freedom of information).
This requires that all information created here is made freely available immediately, without request, in standardized form and for an unlimited duration (open data).
The citizens, as principal, must have the right to access, use and disseminate publicly financed content whenever they wish (open commons).
We are against secrecy, compartmentalization and misled competitive thinking in the public sector. We intend to use freely communicable knowledge to make the public sector more efficient, more transparent and more manageable. Particularly in the field of science, funding must be conditional on the free publication of the achieved knowledge (open access).