I’m no fan of our President-elect, but I have to tip my hat to him on this interesting bit of P.R.:
The new administration’s transition site, Change.gov, is being published under a Creative Commons license. (source) This means that the content is not subject to the draconian, life-plus-70 protection that is the default under the current federal copyright act. Does this mean that our next president may be in favor of copyright reform? One can only dream.
This story was originally published on The Legal Satyricon.
