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A large bipartisan alliance is asking the Republican and Democratic national committees to ensure that all video from upcoming presidential debates can be legally shared, reused and blogged. This would allow people to share the candidates’ issue positions through sites such as YouTube.
The AFL-CIO is one of the 75 signatories, which include Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessing, the founders of Craiglist and Wikipedia, national women’s and civil rights groups, MoveOn.org, DailyKos.com and conservatives such as Redstate.com and Michelle Malkin.
Rather than allowing television networks to retain exclusive rights to debate footage, the alliance is asking that debate footage be put in the public domain or licensed under a Creative Commons (Attribution) license, which makes video free for anyone to access, edit and share with proper attribution.
“This is about the Internet empowering the little guy in our democracy,” said Adam Green of MoveOn.org Civic Action.
The big TV networks should not be the only ones determining which sound bites are newsworthy after a debate. Everyday people should be able to put candidates’ positions on YouTube and share them with others without fear of breaking the law.
To read copies of the letters to the political national committees, click here.
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