Barack Obama and John McCain, the major party candidates for president in the U.S. elections, have responded to the call by Lawrence Lessig and others that the video footage of presidential debates should be in the public domain. Both endorsed the idea. See the letter by McCain and the letter by Obama.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
