Founder Andrew Rasiej opened it up and now Lawrence Lessig, Stanford professor and founder of the Creative Commons is giving an amusing/stimulating presentation on Free Culture and Free Politics. He is crticizing the distortion of the political process due to the constraint of copyright in political content. spliced with remixed political videos, making the point that political video should be able to be democratized, open-sourced, creative commonized. He has discussed profiting off of the war in Iraq, proprietary networks, debates outside of proprietary networks. He suggested putting the debates on PBS rather than NBC or Fox since proprietary networks cannot live by the principles of democratic free speech. He is making the point that if proprietary networks cannot allow debtate content to be remixed, reused, shared than it should not be on " proprietary networks."

Lawrence proposed using the "Credible" tag on political campaigns that believed the following:
1. Torture is Wrong
2. The war was a mistake
3. Global warming is real
4. Copyright should be used at times and with some limits

He is asking Hillary to share her views on Copyright like Barack, Edwards, and Dodd have. For the record Lawrence says, "I do not want to abolish copyright, I believe it just has a place."

Comment #1 - Guy from NPR says they will be putting their debates in the public domain.

Tom Friedman will be interviewing Eric Schmidt at 9. More to come soon.