Two announcements

At lessig08.org, you can watch a 10 minute video explaining the launching of a Change Congress movement, and the decision I am trying to make about whether to run for Congress. That decision will be made soon. I’ve been spurred to consider it seriously by the enormous support of many at draftlessig.org and facebook (and by the cool swag at zazzle). Those three I had nothing to do with. But this I do.

This is a very difficult decision. In the coming days, I’ll reflect a bit about it here. Thank you to everyone who has tried to help — both through very strong words of encouragement and very very strong words to dissuade.

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More on the meaning of "change"

Both Dems say they are for “change” in Washington. One (the one who believes lobbyists represent “real Americans”) is the leading recipient of earmarks. From “day one,” business as usual. That’s “change” in Washington-speak.

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Lantos dies

It is the only good thing that comes from losing great people — the kindness of so many in remembering their greatness. Andrew McLaughlin has a very good post about Congressman Lantos’ passing.

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Remix America

From ObamaVideo08.

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10 minutes on whether Hillary can win

A second, shorter video, about whether Hillary should win (and whether that should matter). Here both at blip.tv (which has better quality) and youtube.com, as well as a link to download the original.


Original file here.

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Big news in the free law department

As announced at public.resource.org, CC and public.resource.org have announced the first release of material to support our free law project. After raising a large chunk of change from great and generous sorts like David Boies, John Gilmore, the Omidyar Network and the Elbaz Foundation, we’ve purchased a database of a substantial part of all federal cases. Carl’s team has now made all the data available in a beautiful, xml format for developers to take and use however they want. The however they want part is what’s assured by the CCØ mark on all cases — no rights, including attribution rights, are asserted over these data at all. Free law available for anyone to build search engines, or collections, or whatever else they want.

This is just the first step in this joint venture that CC and public.resource.org have launched. Stay tuned for more public acts of manumission, soon. Thanks especially to Carl for making this happen, and the generous support of the funders for making this happen in a different sense.

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the beauty of political remix

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it means something, important

about the potential for this man to bring together a nation, to signal change, to inspire, that he is literally the only candidate for whom something like this can look real. Thank you to Will.i.am and friends for showing us this.

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20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack

I wasn’t going to do this, but then someone ask me to do it, and someone else told me (to my horror — not that it would be insane for anyone, but insane for her) that she was for Clinton. So consider this my precinct captain duty for the lessig blog.

Watch or download the high-quality video here (torrent). Or read it here (thanks Chris!).

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the consequences of negative campaigning

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