Larry Lessig on Copyrighting Videos of the President, and Another Denial of Access
Larry Lessig offers another argument for open televion archives latest column, Copyrighting the President, detailing the recent refusal of NBC to sell footage of President Bush to a documentary film maker, because it (in NBC’s words) “is not very flattering to the President.” Lessig asks “what happens when the commander in chief uses private venues to deliver public messages, holding fewer press conferences and making more talk-show appearances? Who controls his words and images then?”