The article reports that the consensus of conservative as well as liberal internet users is to keep the upcoming Presidential Debates free from copyright infringement interference.

"... Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig and the founders of Wikipedia and Craigslist, want debate footage from candidates to be put in the public domain or issued under the liberal Creative Commons licence. This enables it to be 'legally shared, re-used, and blogged about without fear of legal repercussion'".