The matter of copyright and access to content seems like a small thing in the mix of problems that the new President will face when he gets into office. Indeed, when compared to problems like climate change, a faltering world economy, a couple of wars and everything else that’s on all of our collective plates, this might seem like a trivial thing. But it’s not. As a signal of how this administration will act vs. what it will be doing, these things are important.
A number of individuals and organizations have put together a set of principles on open-government.us that reflect what they believe should be the way to approach the question of access to documents, video and other artifacts that are created as the government transition takes place, and hopefully after. Some of this has already happened. So progress is being made.
On the site there’s a short video from Lawrence Lessig that introduces the ideas as well as a place to add your name to the list of signatories. It’s worth the five minutes. Go have a look.
Did you mean to contrast saying vs. doing, rather than acting vs. doing?