lessig.org - 12/1/2008
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Consistent with the values of any "open government," and with his strong leadership on "free debates" from the very start , the Obama team has modified the copyright notice on change.gov to embrace the freest CC license .
This is great news about a subject that's harder than it seems. ...
radar.oreilly.com - 12/2/2008
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Last week, the New York Times wrote about
Changes at change.gov : The policy section of the...
transition site was removed without notice just days after Change.gov went live shortly after the election. At the time a spokesman for the Obama-Biden ...
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Change.gov goes Creative Commons
Boing Boing —
Obama's Change.gov site has dropped its "All Rights Reserved" notice and switched to the Creative Commons Attribution license, the most liberal of the CC licenses.
change.gov set free
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Obama Embraces Creative Commons
TorrentFreak —
... , so could (and did) fill the site with copyright notices. Yet, that a Creative Commons license has been embraced by the President-Elect means good things. Most importantly, that the President has knowledge of less-restrictive copyright methods, and first-hand experience that not only do they work, but that the sky doesn’t fall down when they are used, cannot hurt. That the license chosen was, in Lessig’s words, the ‘freest license’ is more encouraging still. ...
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