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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."
and the first work released is...
a presidential debate
(barf)
bring back the copyright, thanks a lot for the sick sense of humor
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
There's also a lot to not like about him.
Yet to take a stand on any issue
He doesn't even have the balls to put forth his political opinion, and yet he wants to be President?
He's from Illinois politics
Corruption is the way of the government in Illinois. I'm not sure anyone who's been through the Illinois political system has a clean past.
Is liked for no reason
Seriously.
I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.
the only thing I would think the candidates would want to try and prevent is moving the words around to make 'em say anything at all. kind of like Chef's last appearance on South Park.
on the other hand, that's where all the fun is in the debates.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
I think it's more of a "Sorry, we asked you to make a financial offer, but the price you quoted is too high, so we're going to go to MySpace and have them give us the page for free." But who's counting?
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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 americans eager and happy to be stripped of all liberties and civil rights. You don't need to get a CC license for the right to press. Who's behind this Obama? I once found a website for informed politics. It held the data on lobbies and founds going to candidates but unfortunately it looks like it's dead a long time ago. I can tell you from what I remember that Hillary got a waste amount of money from Hollywood in her last electoral run. Guess the same people is now after Obama.
Need I point out the double naturedness of that? You're all for letting someone make their choice on something, unless its something you disagree with.
Guess that means that you 1) believe 9/11 was an inside job 2) are for state control of industry 3) are against freedom of political speech 4) hate jews in Israel etc etc etc. I could go on sticking bullshit on you that Kucinich, Hillary, and Jimmy Carter are for, however I don't actually know you. But until you grow a pair and stand up against the far left of this country are at the top of the Democratic party, guess that's all I'll ever think about you.
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