Sometime on the weekend of 2008 November 8, the Agenda section of the President-elect Obama's website change.gov was removed.
I have no clue why this happened, but I have preserved the removed files here. I obtained everything using Google Cache using a site:change.gov directive.
I forgot about Versionista
Here are some articles about the changes
Mirrors
Obama's spokesman Nick Shapiro said: "We're retooling the Web site. Basically, it was put up within hours after we won. We took everything down to rework it." (via ProPublica)
Other change.gov things:
- On 2008 Nov 11, the copyright block at the bottom of the change.gov sites changed. It used to say "CONTENT COPYRIGHT 2008 (c) by Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501c(4) organization", now it says "CONTENT COPYRIGHT 2008 (c)" Maybe they finally realized that U.S. government works are in the public domain.
- As of 2008 Dec 01, the copyright used on Obama's change.gov is a CC licence. +1 internets to you mr President.
- On 2008 Dec 02, Prof Lawrence Lessig wrote "[the transition project is] not actually a .gov entity, so not exempt from the rights of copyright," which probably means the change.gov works do not need to be in the public domain.
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