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Obama Requests Creative Commons for Presidential Debates
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama recently submitted a letter to the DNC asking for the Presidential debates to be licensed under the Creative Commons. This move would give everyone the freedom to share, recut, and edit the debates as they wish. "I am a strong believer in the importance of copyright, especially in a digital age. But there is no reason that this particular class of content needs the protection. We have incentive enough to debate. The networks have incentive enough to broadcast those debates. Rather than restricting the product of those debates, we should instead make sure that our democracy and citizens have the chance to benefit from them in all the ways that technology makes possible."
This is something NO-ONE with a brain would stay behind: A presidential candidate willing to give you a license to use his speeches in commentaries. Are you blind and deaf? This man is actually saying that in order to write/report about a political speech you need a copyright license! Why on earth there is need for such a statement in a supposely free nation? Are you americans all eager and happy to be stripped of all liberties and civil rights and back such a statement? You don't need to get a CC license for the right to press. Please now flag this ad flamebait, I have to say this: IDIOTS.