{"id":1927,"date":"2008-12-01T19:19:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T23:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2008-12-01T19:19:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T23:19:17","slug":"changegov-embraces-the-creative-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/12\/01\/changegov-embraces-the-creative-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Change.gov Embraces the Creative Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techpresident.com\/blog\/entry\/33310\/change_gov_swaps_traditional_copyright_for_creative_commons\">This<\/a> is very encouraging:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In what can only be seen as a major coup for those of us who have been hoping that the Obama Administration would embrace a saner and more sensible thinking on questions of copyright than is the norm in Washington, Change.gov has swapped a strict copyright policy for among the liberalist of Creative Commons licenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And for those of you who have being playing the copyright game along at home, and are thinking &#8220;Wait, isn&#8217;t everything prepared by the Federal gov&#8217;t in the public domain already?&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a rather strange government-private hybrid entity, the Obama-Biden Transition Project doesn&#8217;t appear to be covered by government copyright rules which presume that what the government creates should be freely useable by the public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not used to these flashes of sanity emanating from DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is very encouraging: In what can only be seen as a major coup for those of us who have been hoping that the Obama Administration would embrace a saner and more sensible thinking on questions of copyright than is the norm in Washington, Change.gov has swapped a strict copyright policy for among the liberalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}