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Hugh McGuire on Librivox: Why public domain and not Creative Commons?

A vibrant public domain is essential for a healthy society, and is essential for innovation — which I think can also be expressed as: “finding solutions to problems.” Having a wide and vibrant public domain — of ideas, texts, learning, science, open source code, audio recordings, art, etc. — means that as we face problems of one kind or another, we have at our disposal a whole host of tools and information and building blocks that will help us find solutions.