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Creative Commons Comes To Microsoft Office
News Microsoft and the Creative Commons on Wednesday plan to release a free tool that will let people attach a Creative Commons copyright licence to Microsoft Office documents. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organisation that has written licences that...
[June 21, 2006, 10:00]
Creative Commons Licence Upheld By Court
News A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons (CC) licence is binding in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. The Creative Commons licences are quite new, so there has been very little in the way of case...
[March 21, 2006, 10:50]
Creative Commons Appeals For Cash
News Creative Commons launched an appeal this week for cash to meet its goal of raising $225,000 by the end of this year. Set up in 2002 by US academic Lawrence Lessig, author of Code and other laws of Cyberspace, Creative Commons aims to provide a...
[October 7, 2005, 17:55]
UK Gets Its Own Creative Commons
News A version of the Creative Commons licensing scheme adapted for the UK's legal landscape will be formally launched in London on Wednesday evening. Creative Commons was first developed by US academic Lawrence Lessig as a more flexible alternative to...
[March 16, 2005, 16:20]
Creative Commons Comes To Microsoft Office
Talkback Or.make a macro keyboard shortcut (embedded in a customized menu button or whatever) and paste in predefined text (with logo's, links, whatever) in OpenOffice. Which would also make it possible to add exactly that what you want to add and thus be...
[June 22, 2006, 23:52]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Off to the October Gallery in Holborn for the launch of the Creative Commons UK licence. You don't need to decode the motives behind Creative Commons. Which is odd: Creative Commons in the US has been a practical and conceptual success: by letting...
[March 18, 2005, 17:00]
Government Intellectual Property Under Scrutiny
News The Common Information Environment (CIE) has commissioned a study on the potential for the deployment of Creative Commons licences or their equivalent. He said the Creative Commons framework could provide more consistency and clarity for users.
[June 30, 2005, 16:05]
BBC Prepares To Put TV Archive On Web
News The BBC has given a major boost to the Creative Commons movement this week by revealing how it plans to open up its archive of broadcasting material to UK Internet users. A Creative Commons licence allows content creators to dictate whether or not...
[May 27, 2004, 16:30]
LimeWire
Downloads You can search for Creative Commons and Weedshare licensed files, and publish your own creative works with Creative Commons licensing. LimeWire has a new, personalized spam blocker to get rid of junk results.
[April 28, 2008, 12:08]
Webcasting 'excluded From WIPO Broadcasting Treaty'
News Cory Doctorow, the former European affairs coordinator for the EFF, warned last year that giving such protection to webcasters could allow them to monopolise material covered by Creative Commons licences, and would enforce the use of DRM.
[May 8, 2006, 17:10]
New E-minister Lacks Technology Clout
News In December 1999, Alexander told the Commons that the electronics industry has been "the single most important industrial sector for manufacturing inward investment in Scotland". Indeed, Alexander has never spoken about important technology issues...
[June 12, 2001, 15:56]
OpenMoko Open-sources Handset Hardware
News The design files for the Neo 1973 handset can be downloaded from the OpenMoko website, in Pro Engineer format, under a creative commons licence, so users and companies can create their own versions of the handset.
[March 4, 2008, 16:36]
Bill Gates And Other Communists
Talkback On the other hand Mr gates has in the recent past termed all innovative legal thinkers in to COMMUNIST, from Creative Commons advocates, (alternative cpoyright protection) to Software patens discussion.
[February 23, 2005, 1:34]
Apple's Patent Bending
Talkback I notice that there isn't a "creative commons" copyright notice on zdNet articles/info. Obviously written by an open source communist. In all seriousness, I think your Apple/Xerox facts are a little thin.
[March 31, 2004, 16:25]
Open Source Developers Step Up Anti-patent Campaign
Talkback By this, I give you permission to use (parts of) the mentioned text, of which I'm the writer, under the creative commons license, however, you're explicitely free to use it for commercial use too. Hi, about software patetns:
[April 15, 2005, 22:31]
The Patent Poison Spreads
Leader Nothing could be further than the truth - it, like the Creative Commons scheme, involves an explicit statement of those rights. Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad - or software developers.
[April 14, 2005, 13:40]
UN Body Promotes Open Source In Education
News The guide -- which can be seen here -- has been released under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows other organisations to copy and distribute the work. A UN-funded body has produced a guide that encourages the use of Linux in...
[January 21, 2005, 10:55]
Should We Have A Licence For Our Identities?
Blog Perhaps we need creative commons style licenses for personal information- which would allow for non-commercial use, attribution or whatnot," said James Governor of redMonk in an email. Facebook and Plaxo are arguing over who gets to share their...
[January 7, 2008, 13:36]
DVD-Jon: Critics 'don't Understand DRM'
Talkback Either an updated Fair Use proposal (such as the Creative Commons has), or an alternate DRM system that honors both the concerns of artists and audience. There seems to be several fundimental flaws in Jon's logic.
[November 30, 2003, 0:38]
Fair's Fair With Google OneBox
Leader By making its API available under a Creative Commons licence, Google is throwing open the OneBox platform to the wider enterprise application industry. OneBox to rule them all, OneBox to find them. OneBox to bring them all, and in the darkness bind...
[April 21, 2006, 16:00]
