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- Creative Commons
- An organization that has defined an alternative to copyrights by filling in the gap between full copyright, in which no use is permitted without permission, and public domain, where permission...
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- Barack Obama is male, taken, and CC licensed
- While John McCain recently complained about Google's application of the DMCA, Barack Obama has been quietly employing a Creative Commons license for his Flickr photostream. by Denise Howell
- Tags: Creative Commons, John McCain, Barack Obama, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Denise Howell, Flickr, Camera Phones, Cellular Phones
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- Creative Commons for students
- Creative Commons for studentsminors...One thing to bear in mind is that minors cannot license or re-license their own work without their parent's consent. Students can in some cases simply pull down content from the web and re-use it -- if the use is covered by "fair use" -- which...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Creative Commons
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Creative Commons for students
- I was in a meeting today about an after-school program where students are creating a lot of digital content. As much of this content is being tagged, students need to identify the copyright holder for individual media. While the copyright holder is rightfully the student who created the...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Student, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- A walk through the two new student tools for Office 2007
- Zack Whittaker was on compassionate leave when this was posted; posted offline and scheduled to release during this week. Late last month I wrote about the five newly released tools designed for students and academics. I was on the phone last week to an old colleague of...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Microsoft Office 2007, Tool, Creative Commons Add-in, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Lessig: Don't fall into the four-year trap
- CNET News.com's Caroline McCarthy interviews Lawrence Lessig, Stanford law professor and co-founder of the new Change Congress project, about government corruption then and now.
- Tags: News, caroline mccarthy, laurence lessig, government, corruption, creative commons, but no tags matched
- Videos 2008-06-24
- LimeWire (exe)
- LimeWire is the world's fastest P2P file-sharing application for all types of computer files, including music, video, pictures, games, and text documents. Other features include dynamic querying, file previews during download, advanced techniques for locating rare files, and an easy, clean user interface.LimeWire's new spam blocker gets rid of junk...
- Tags: Creative Commons, LimeWire, Lime Wire, Peer To Peer (P2P), Productivity, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Security
- Software downloads 2007-12-11
- CC PDF Converter (exe)
- The CC PDF converter is a free application that enables you to create PDF documents from any application (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer and more). The CC PDF Converter allows you to easily embed a Creative Commons license in your PDF file. Publishing your PDF under a Creative Commons license...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Cogniview, Adobe PDF, Social Media, CC PDF Converter
- Software downloads 2007-11-26
- Kindling a controversy
- Ed Champion is investigating whether certain bloggers included in Amazon's Kindle launch were made "Kindle Blogs" without authorization or licensing. He cites two examples Daniel McGowan and Cork Gaines of bloggers who apparently are included in the Kindle Store without their permission. This surprises me. My personal...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Amazon.com Inc., Blogger, Ed Champion, Blogging, Internet, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- CcPublisher (exe)
- ccPublisher is an utility that does two things: it will help you tag your audio and video files with information about your license and it allows you to upload Creative Commons-licensed audio and video works to the Internet Archive for free hosting. You also have the option of publishing the...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Audio, ccPublisher, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-10-30
- MozCC (xpi)
- Provides an interface for viewing metadata embedded in Web pages, including Creative Commons licenses. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Creative Commons, Metadata, Nathan R. Yergler, Channel Management, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-10-15
- Creative Commons, the Live Web, and quickie divorce info centers
- Creative Commons, the Live Web, and quickie divorce info centersWhy is the suit against Virgin legitimate?I first heard of this case the other day while I was at work when a co-worker sent around an email. I work at an ad agency in Baltimore. The email I received instructed...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Web, photograph, B/C, Virgin, advertisement, Creative Commons
- Discussion threads 2007-09-29
- Creative Commons, the Live Web, and quickie divorce info centers
- Dennis Kennedy pointed me to Shelley Powers, who pointed me in turn to Slashdot and Professor Lessig. All concern a lawsuit pending in Dallas, TX against Virgin Mobile and Creative Commons concerning Virgin's advertising use of a minor's picture posted by the girl's youth counselor to Flickr under a...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Web, Flickr, Shelley, Litigation, Business Operations, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- IP and the user generated economy at TechCrunch40
- Some very competitively interesting Web companies are being launched and/or featured today and tomorrow at TechCrunch40. In the wrap-up portion of the Community Collaboration session, former Napster executive Don Dodge was quick to note that many of these companies depend on user submissions and uploads to populate their services,...
- Tags: Creative Commons, IP, Video, User, Music, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Office Add-in: Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office (exe)
- Office Add-in: Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using the popular applications: Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. The add-in downloads the Creative Commons license you designate from the Creative Commons Web...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Microsoft Corp., Add-in, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-09-14
- Valleywag latest example of cutting Creative Commons corners
- Flickr makes it so easy to find photos, doesn't it? And if you're blogging for a commercial outlet like this one, or, say, Valleywag, it even makes it easy to find photos licensed for commercial use.Yesterday, Valleywag disregarded that when it copied and republished a noncommercially licensed Dan Farber...
- Tags: Social networking, Licenses, Copyright, Blogging
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Notes from my "Law That Works" talk at VON '07
- I was one of several folks who spoke today on policy issues at Video on the Net. Since my talk riffs on Jeff Jarviss, which I blogged earlier, and since I actually have notes for a change, here they are. And heres a Flickr set of the accompanying...
- Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, Creative Commons, Flickr
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Noncommercial means noncommercial -- whatever that means
- Niall Kennedy has this lengthy account of his successful efforts to have one of his Creative Commons licensed Flickr photos licensed for noncommercial use removed from Microsofts Team RSS Blog. Rather than send a cease and desist, Niall decided to make his point with a bit of a flourish....
- Tags: Niall, Creative Commons, image, Licenses, Copyright, Blogging
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Legal innovation breeds artistic ecosystem
- What do you get when you cross: a good musician, Creative Commons, ...
- Tags: Jonathan Coulton
- Blog posts 2006-09-21
- Re-architecting music licensing, one big social network at a time
- Re-architecting music licensing, one big social network at a timemyspace totally unnecessaryThe world of flexible of music licensing is just beginning to grow. The Creative Commons project may be the single most important aspect of its growth, especially when you consider the CCed music can't be distributed with DRM. So,...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), network, Creative Commons, music, social networking
- Discussion threads 2006-09-14
- Microsoft enables Creative COmmons licensing in Office
- Microsoft enables Creative COmmons licensing in OfficeJoy of press releases.Imagine Craig Mundie saying the words he's "quoted" as saying. The response would be, "Are you okay?"And the press release also allows the reader to contemplate the observation by a Microsoft executive that he enjoys the thought of ideas moving...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Creative Commons, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-06-21
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