Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT bad.dynu.ca>]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 19:56 +0900, Takemoto wrote:
> The fact that people still want books made of paper makes it difficult to copyleft
> and still make a profit.  
That's just not true. A publisher can make a pretty tidy profit by assembling copyleft books and selling them. They just won't make the exploitative monopolistic profits that can be made on non-copyleft books, since there will be a truly "free" market and if they don't provide value to their customer, the customer will by the identical content from a different publisher.
> The world of book publishing, bookshops, textbooks, libraries and course ware 
> is still much less copylefted than software (despite the efforst of wikipedia). 
>
> This could change. 
Agreed! And the wrong way to do it is to disallow readers from using their preferred medium to access the work.

~Evan

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Evan Prodromou
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