This blog (Lessig) is licensed as CC Attribution 3.0. IANAL, but I believe someone could make a reasonable argument that the comments (mine and yours) fall under that same license.

Let me repeat myself: the content created by the Obama transition team as part of the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 is created with taxpayer money and should be public domain upon creation.

User-generated content on Change.gov is a different animal. Having a CC license for UGC is smart — but it shouldn’t be retroactive and it should be attribution AND non-commercial.

Part of the notice was that our comments are posted under the CC. We agree to that by posting there.

This post is copyrighted by the insane current copyright law, and you have no right to copy it except under the very vague fair use exemptions invented by precedent, me explicitly giving you the right, or some right to copy I implicitly gave you by posting this site. Since there is no monetary value exchanged it isn’t clear that any CC provision at this site is enforceable, and since I have not given you the right to copy this post, you may not be allowed to copy it to your computer and read it. You may be breaking the law reading this post.

Obviously, anything which cannot be copyrighted isn’t covered by the CC.

Jim.

It’s nice that he has some sort of sensitivity to the issue, but unless we go back and deal with the questions raise by Thomas Babington Macaulay in in 1841 (http://yarchive.net/macaulay/copyright.html) we will be getting nowhere.

The Presidents-elect have also raised money to supplement the taxpayer funds. The most expensive (in 2008 dollars) transition since 1952 was Clinton’s. However, George W. had a short transition period (starting in December, not November), so his would be the most expensive if calculated on a per day rate.

See http://uspolitics.about.com/od/elections/a/prez_transition.htm

A CC license makes sense for the UGC portion of the Change.gov website. It does not make sense for any material prepared by the transition team, especially since the site specifically cites the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 as its reason for being. Thus, the site is an official part of the U.S. Government. You don’t get a “.gov” domain name unless your material is for an official government purpose!

Moreover, the more appropriate CC license if they’re not going public domain (and there is a CC Public Domain license) would be attribution + non-commercial!

Oh, and the “you are exiting” popup on outbound links is so annoying.

I found on March 10th 2008 that our drinking water in the U. S. is unsafe to drink, because of Pharmaceuticals in our drinking water. This study was published in the journal Nature Genetics. By using magnets should slow down some of the Pharmaceuticals that are getting into our drinking water that can make us sick. By using less Pharmaceuticals should slow down the problem with the contamination of our drinking water.

This idea involves Strong Magnets, put into a pad. I make my own magnet pads because there are no companys that make and sell the strong magnet pads that I needed to do the job. The Magnets should take care of both Viral and Bacterial Infections. See my web site http://www.jahw.us . The magnet pads will send a magnetic field five inches into the body that will increase the oxygen level under the pad, to help the body repair itself. The magnets and medicine should be able to be used at the same time to give the body two possible ways to repair itself, although the doctor may need to adjust the medication to a lower amount. The human body was made by our creator to repair itself but sometimes needs a little help. The Lord put almost, if not everything needed on earth to repair the human body.

If you would like to use my suggestion, I would like to be the one to teach the doctors how to use the magnet pads, if the doctors would listen to me, being I am not a doctor. I do feel I am the only person that knows how to use the strong magnet pads like I am telling you about. It would be nice if I could make and sell the magnet pads needed to take care of their Health Problems.

The doctors need to do some preventative maintenance. They need to check everyone’s blood to be sure the calcium, magnesium and vitamin-D levels along with all the other vitamins and minerals are in the safety zone for the body to protect itself from illness. I feel the age of 18 or earlier would be a good time to get this yearly test started, and monitor the older people more often.

I can get over the flu virus in about an hour, which is less time than it takes to make an appointment to see the doctor. I can get over food poisoning in about six hours and my arthritis took about a year, but you need to remember the fact that I was still learning how to use the magnets. I feel it should take less than a month to get the Arthritis under control, if they do as I tell them. Learn more about what I did to repair my body go to http://www.jahw.us

John Stertzbach
[email protected]
440-476-6787

P S The American Medical Association (AMA) is not going to like my suggestion because there is no money in using magnets to repair the human body.

Good bite!
Congratulations.
Eeverybody knows that!

Here in Brazil some guys are smiing and burning fireworks!

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