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CNN To Release Debates Under Creative Commons

Posted by kdawson on from the coming-to-their-senses dept.

remove office writes "After calls from several prominent bloggers and a couple of presidential candidates, CNN has agreed to release the footage from its upcoming June presidential debates uncopyrighted. Senator Barack Obama was the first candidate to call for all presidential debates to be released under Creative Commons, with fellow Democratic hopeful John Edwards following shortly afterwards. CNN will be the first to do so with their June 3rd and 5th Democratic and Republican debates. MSNBC hosted the first presidential debates recently but refused to release them under Creative Commons, opting instead to post online only commercial-ridden clips in Windows Media format."

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  1. Re:On a closely related sidenote: by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is no-where in the world where you are prohibited from disclaiming copyright on a work.

    I don't know how that rumour got started.

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    How we know is more important than what we know.
  2. Re:Creative Commons != copyright free by remove+office · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Thanks to you and everybody else in here complaining (rightfully), I've edited the article on my website to hopefully reflect the corrections people are offering. The Slashdot summary is not editable by me though.

    Also, in answer to your question, a specific license has not been announced yet, but CNN has indicated that people will be free to do whatever they like with it (remix it, edit it, use it in a documentary, post it anywhere they want, etc).

    One of the specific points that Obama had was that he wanted the footage to be free for people to use in creating things like remixed YouTube videos, etc ("end user created content").