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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Heartwarming Creative Commons success story from the US Navy

Boing Boing: Heartwarming Creative Commons success story from the US Navy

Last week, I received the most remarkable letter from Jamie, a US Navy seaman stationed on a ship in the Mediterranean Sea. Because my novels are Creative Commons-licensed, he is able to download them and print them out onboard ship, and pass them around to his comrades. The absence of quality reading material on the ship has turned Creative Commons texts into hot items on the ship