True Callings

The Obama administration has announced that it's taking a step forward into a new copyright regime by announcing that everything on its transition website, Change.gov, will be covered under a Creative Commons license, which basically means anyone can reproduce the content on the site or use it as the basis for a document of thei own. It's a pretty progressive, if basically cost-free, step. But the real genius of the announcement is in the quotation the team got to describe the initiative, from blogger James Grimmelmann:

"Attribution 3.0 is the Barack Obama of CC licenses: modern, dignified, generous, and tolerant.”

If they can get their hands on quote like that, they sure could be raking it in at a PR firm. But I guess change is a pretty decent side benefit for a job.