Wow. CC-BY-ing the Feynman Lectures would have a meaningful impact on undergraduate education worldwide. Where I'm sitting in our lab, I'm probably within 50m

Wow. CC-BY-ing the Feynman Lectures would have a meaningful impact on undergraduate education worldwide. Where I'm sitting in our lab, I'm probably within 50m of at least ten copies. CC-BY-ing just a few of the old stalwarts (I like the 1970 Sears and Zemansky, for example, and old editions of Thomas' Calculus are fine (probably better than present editions) ) would stop a lot of expensive silliness with the generation of open-source textbooks. Buying out the rights to the best textbooks is in our national interest.