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Google Books launched an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to...

According to Marcus, digital technology creates two opposing cultures: one is creating works with copyright, another is illegally making use of those works. In the academic world, we are fear of copyright law, but outside the academic world we use the internet to download, mix and create another work. And this is where the Creative Commons arrives.

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.

It is a good news for Internet users, especially google users to see the google books under cc licenses. The more rights of viewers to see the books, the more criticize and ideas come out. then more crticize, the more critics criticize, the better the information is shared by authors and readers. The better the information is about how to improve the books, the more improvement of content is made.

Interesting case, though I don't know if something has been done about that licence problem by now (it happened in 2007)