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“What I decided was important was to find a new way for books to enter the public commons,” says Hellman. “Because copyrights last so long, things aren’t coming into the public domain in a timely way.”
Hellman looked to the success of crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter for inspiration. “I thought that one possible way for books to enter the public commons was for people who care about them, people who want to share those books, to pay the rights-holder" to make them available through a creative commons license.
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