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.
Open up the debates
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Right on!
We can’t remix C-SPAN content? Oh that’s a rule I SO don’t plan on obeying. Come and get me, coppers.
Oh, and did not know about it. Thanks for the information …
Tracy Byrd: A Country Singer with Heart
Looking at the success Tracy Byrd has had as a country singer is impressive, for such a new career as . Interestingly, the chart topping prowess doesn’t stop with music alone. He also has a career as a writer and a popular spokesman. It seems that, for those in the business, opportunity just seems to appear. The fact is, though, that Tracy Byrd has been working for years. He was not simply an overnight success; he worked for his success and worked some more. Today, he can claim credit as one of the most successful chart toppers in country music history.