Talk about mixed emotions. I like Barack Obama – at least, as seen on TV – and just when I started to like him more because of a letter he sent to Democratic National Convention Chair Howlin' Howard Dean urging him to put debate video under public license, the Washington Post reports his campaign officers butting his biggest fan out of MySpace. "We, as a Party, should do everything that we can to encourage this participation," he writes. "Not only will it keep us focused on the issues that matter most to America, it will also encourage participation by a wide range of our youth who have traditionally simply tuned out from politics." Though a believer in strong copyright protection in the digital age, Obama denied that political debate footage needed the same considerations, and noted also that televisions would still have incentive enough to broadcast. All that's well and good, but an already somewhat controversial candidate, especially one that espouses the cause of the little guy while pounding the podium on the power of "citizen generated media," should watch how his campaign managers handle the little guy's contributions.
Because I like him, I want to say it was his campaign managers and not Obama. So let's start with the good news first.
Last week, Stanford Law's Lawrence
Obama Hijacks MySpace Page, Mails Howard Dean
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