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Old 02-20-2015, 06:00 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by AlexBell View Post
I'm sorry, I think you've misunderstood me. I have clearly stated the the ebooks may be distributed freely. I can make it read 'to anyone at any time, but not for commercial purposes'. And I have clearly indicated that the ebooks contain original material that I've added.

If the ebooks I do were only facsimiles of public domain material of course I wouldn't dream of putting a Creative Commons licence or a copyright on them.

I've just spent the evening on the Kobo site, and have now found three ebooks I've prepared for the MR library for which Kobo is charging money after removing the original material. I don't think that's fair use.
Of course, if your contributions are "transformative" enough to make the new work copyrightable, then you should be free to apply a CC license. I don't know where that line would be.

On the other matter of people trying to sell your work on Kobo, they should be outed on Kobo.
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