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Lessig Launches Open Transition Principles

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the change-is-coming-in-the-form-of-nickels-and-dimes dept.

soDean writes "The Principles for an Open Transition and a petition were co-launched by Lawrence Lessig, Mozilla, and the Participatory Culture Foundation today. This was in reaction to the announcement that Obama would be posting his transition videos to YouTube. The petition encourages Obama to publish his transition videos with open licenses, make them available for download, and preferably use royalty free/open video formats and standards. Unless YouTube makes some radical changes, the videos will need to be hosted elsewhere."

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  1. You do the work. by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since the Office of the President Elect (web address: Change.gov) is a federal government office, anything it produces is automatically in the public domain.

    But here's the problem with Lessig and company... it costs money to mount a video service, especially something that would be as popular as this is. If The Mozilla Foundation (main funder: Google) is willing to convert and host the videos, then the most likely could get the source from the governement. If they're complaining to YouTube (owner: Google) to change their ways, then they're just biting the hand that feeds them.