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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."
I wanna buy Obama the nigger. I hope he costs less than $50. Anyone know how much he goes for?
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?
Dude, if you are not a Obama lover here on slashdot you get modded into hell. Just look at any post that is critical of him.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
while i'm a great advocate of CC and all public domain licenses this is one place where i think CC & company should probably stay out.
i wonder how mr. obama would feel if someone took his portion of the debate and filled with hate mongering nazi propaganda and then released it for an unsuspecting public to consume? would people "buy it" because they like or dislike the man? gee, in a world where people believe everything bill o'reilly says...
honestly there's enough of that going on today. we don't need more of it.
this is where "free and open" should take pause. if you take a debate transcript and modify it so that your opponents look like evil people you have just set president for getting a number of political entities to do likewise and now we have a new flame war of misinformation.
listen to CSPAN, listen to the nightly news, all over the place people are misinformed. clueless. we still have people who believe soldiers aren't being trained for OIF & OEF. we still have people who think soldiers aren't getting the latest and greatest gear out there. i've been there, done that, and the system is catching up. i don't know where people get the information they are getting but it's about 4+ years old.
taking the time delay factor into effect, consider your candidate releases something it's modified the media published said untrue statement, and then their changes are nulled. opps! there goes an option. then 6+ months later (post election) we find out that it was a modification that terminated said candidates election campaign. how...convenient.
allowing the "general public" (more like "interested parties") the ability to modify change what politicians said during a debate opens up an increase to the daily misinformation and lies that we hear *everyday*.
no mr. obama, i'm tried of it i'm already cynical enough and i'm already tired of mistrusting everything i hear and see.
i'm also tried of politicians attempting to pander to the defunct american "intelligencia" or "the kids". if it's hip and trendy do it! we're the "smart herd". this reeks of "we can look cool to the youngsters".
"think for yourself. question authority."
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.
You're doing it wrong--http://youredoingitwrong.mee.nu
And lumpy is proven right.
I also noticed this, If you say anything negative of Obama, you get modded -1 troll.