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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Most free books released in the last few years are still under copyright: in fact, copyright is what enables the authors to release them for free without worrying about someone else selling them for profit. Copyright provides the legal framework that allows authors who wish to release their works for free to do so.
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They've been released under Creative Commons licenses, which usually in terms of consumers and the general public gives away claim to ownership.
I don't think it's fair to users of Creative Commons licenses to liken it to Copyright in this particular debate, as it's created explicitly to combat many of the aspects of Copyright we're debating here, mainly how Copyright prevents works from entering the public domain and accessability to the public.
I mean for petes sake, they even call it Copyleft. While you can argue that Creative Commons are derived from Copyright, and in terms of commercial use only share similar aspects, for this purpose you can really only make semantic comparisons.