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Obama Takes Initial Open Government Step
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... But there's more to be done, of course. The open government community is pushing for a couple more concessions from the Obama people, the primary one being that content needs to be practically accessible in addition to legally accessible. That is to say, it matters little if content on Change.gov can be remixed and modified and disseminated, if the coding of the content doesn't allow it to be copied in the first place. Here's an explanation from open-government.us, where you can find more ideas for a truly open transition: ...

Daily Digest: Renewing the Push for Open Government by Law, by Code
techPresident — ... Overnight, a new site went up detailing a push by Stanford professor Larry Lessig to petition the Obama-Biden transition to abide by not only the letter of open government principles, but the spirit. (Note: our Micah Sifry is a signatory to the letter.) Change.gov's embrace of a rather liberal Creative Commons license is, admits Lessig, "fantastically good news," but Lessig et al want the incoming administration to ensure that those sound legal choices are accompanied by open-leaning in-the-weeds tech decisions. Ars Technica's ...

“O” is for Open Government
The Moderate Voice — ... The Obama transition made a subtle, but dramatic, change to its intellectual property licensing yesterday, and the groups pushing for freer use of content on the Internet are releasing a letter this morning requesting two more changes to the way the transition is handling its online content. ...

Larry Lessig: ‘Principles for an Open Transition’
Pundits Blog — ... . Check out open-government.us . The following is a short version. * No Legal Barrier to Sharing Content made publicly available in the course of this transition — such as President-elect Obama’s videos, or policy statements posted on the change.gov website — should be freely licensed so that citizens can share, excerpt, remix or otherwise redistribute this content without unnecessary complexity imposed by the law. * No Technological Barrier to Sharing A merely legal freedom to share and remix, however, can be thwarted by technological constraints. Content made publicly ...