Lessig Launches Open Transition Principles

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 3, 2008 @04:14AM 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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Stupid... by i+kan+reed · 2008-12-03 04:25 · Score: 4, Interesting

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm also fairly certain that copyrightable material produced by the federal government of the United States is automatically public domain and could not be placed under a more restrictive license such as any copyleft. The office of the president elect is under the purview of the General Services Administration, and I imagine would be under similar requirements.