Stanford Law Prof. Lawrence Lessig, a leader in efforts to update and open up copyright laws, has called on the DNC and RNC to require that any network televising the debates make the content freely available for online viewing and, importantly, remixing. It would be downright undemocratic for anyone to put limitations on it as C-SPAN — even after loosening up its restrictions — still prevents us from using and remixing the words of our public officials. So I’d push farther than Lessig et al and say it should be a principle for every news organization and party and debate sponsor that the words of the candidates are the property of the people.