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The article is dedicated to the current state of links between copyright and information rights. Although copyright and information rights are regulated in different manners, both of them have a common feature of information. Historical perspectives prove that the establishment of copyright rules used to aim the protection of intellectual property but not to limit freedom of information. On the other hand, information rights are not absolute rights and enhancing them does not mean to zero the role of copyright law. Copyright contains elements of information and it is the same for freedom of information - the cornerstone of modern information rights. That is to say, traditional notion of copyright is not in conflict with information rights. Copyright is also an individual human right and unlike the “conflict” claims, there is not an extraordinary clash between copyright and information rights. All can live peacefully in ICT age with no need to arrange Rognarok for co-habitation of copyright with information rights. And we do not need Thor to save us. Legal fundamentals of information circulation cover both information rights and copyright. Bearing this in mind, we can set up certain system of restrictions for the enjoyment of information rights and copyright in order to coordinate information circulation in proper manner. Thus, the current research overviews copyright as the subject matter of information law field as well as puts it within the realm of information rights and freedoms.