OBAMARAMA

Apparently Sen. Obama is coming to the aid of netizens interested in posting video segments of the presidential debates online, something they are currently technically forbidden to do (though we did it here).  From the AP:

In a letter to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, the Illinois senator said he supports an effort by a bipartisan coalition of academics, bloggers and Internet activists who have asked the Democratic and Republican parties to make the video available.

…”I am a strong believer in the importance of copyright, especially in the 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.”