Some of the most influential pundits on both sides of the political stage are petitioning the Republican and Democratic National Conventions (RNC and DNC) to ensure all Presidential debate video be licensed under Creative Commons, making it legal to share debate video footage online.
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If successful, all Presidential debate footage could be legally shared, re-used, edited, and blogged about without fear of legal repercussion.
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“Technology has exploded the opportunity for people to comment upon and spread political speech,” said Lessig. “I am very hopeful that both the Republicans and the Democrats will help encourage the extraordinary public discussion around the election that the Internet has enabled, by removing any uncertainty about the right of the people to comment upon the speech of presidential candidates.”
Lessig admits that many "rightly and fairly struggle over" copyright issues, the place of copyright in political debate is one more difficult to justify. In order to ensure a more genuinely participatory democracy, any network broadcasting the debates would be required to license them freely after the initial broadcast by putting them in the public domain.
"I am confident that I won’t like much of what this freedom will engender," Lessig writes on his blog. "But if that were a legitimate reason to regulate political speech, this would be a very different world."
Already dubbed "the YouTube Presidency," the 2008 election coverage has fully crossed all media. The Internet is living up to its potential as candidates and
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