out of the blue

Lawrence Lessig, a well-known copyright activist and digital freedom fighter, has put together open-government.us, a web site that urges the Obama transition team to commit to making their content free and accessible. Policy statements, speeches, and other content should allow free sharing, excerpting, and remixing. This would demonstrate Obama's principle of open, transparent government, and set a good precedent for later releases. If you think this is important, you should go to the site and sign the petition. It has already been signed by such notables as Tim O'Reilly and Jimmy Wales (and me, of course, at #206). It could use a few more.