Posted by John McCormick at 10:41 a.m. CDT
Sen. Barack Obama wants the tape. Or at least he wants it to be available on the Internet.
Following the lead of academics and Internet activists, Obama's campaign released a letter this morning that the Illinois senator sent to Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, that asks that any video from the presidential debates be made available to the public afterwards, free of copyright protections.
"I am a strong believer in the importance of copyright, especially in a digital age," Obama wrote. "But there is no reason that this particular class of content needs the protection. We have incentive enough to debate. The networks have incentive enough to broadcast those debates. Rather than restricting the product of those debates, we should instead make sure that our democracy and citizens have the chance to benefit from them in all the ways that technology makes possible."
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