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HTTP:: Google Books Introduces Creative Commons Licenses
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Google may be getting portrayed as the bad guy by some regarding its Google Books project with fears and even accusations of monopoly and other negative comments, but it is trying to be as open as possible, be it because of the undergoing DOJ investigation or out of genuine good intentions. In any case, it's taking another step with the announcement of new tools and options for authors who choose to distribute their works under a Creative Commons license. “Creative Commons licenses make it easier for authors and publishers to tell readers whether and how they can use copyrighted books. You can grant your readers the right to share the work or to modify and remix it. You can decide whether commercial use is okay. There's even an option to dedicate your book to the public domain,” Xian Ke, associate product manager, Google Books, wrote. “We've marked books that rightsholders have made available under a CC license with a matching logo on the book's left hand navigation!
bar.” Creative Commons licenses offer authors a way of allowing others to distribute, share and modify their work. The six CC version 3 licenses offer varying degrees of freedom to others but the authors still retain the copyright. However, there is the option to release a work while waiving all copyrights, to th...
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