Legal and Ethical Issues

Taken straight from their website, Creative Commons "is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools". Basically giving you the right to use others people works without copyright. As for if information should be free? This topic has probably been argued the day humanity was born. This question tips back and over from yes to no. For example movies. If they are free where will profit come from or giving the willingness to make the movie. Then again, why should we pay from something so meaningless. Books are also the problem now. Costing so much (for some stupid reason...seriously why are books so expensive? I mean come on, it's a book!) open source textbooks are getting pretty popular. As The Tullahoma News  stated, "Open source texts – whether on paper or in a digital format – are compiled using copyright-free materials from a wide variety of sources and can be edited and updated immediately." This will surely hurt the authors who are selling books. But oh well. Survival of the fittest. As stated before this question can go both ways and this debate shall never end. It's a matter of perspective, who will hurt who?