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RBSplitView 1.2 (Mac)

A complete recode of a split view for Cocoa. Programmatic collapse/expand, minimum/maximum limits on subviews, two-way thumbs for nested split views, many other goodies. Interface Builder Palette. Creative Commons and MIT licenses.

Tags: Creative Commons, Apple Macintosh, Rainer Brockerhoff, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-24

Creative Commons 0: Now with zero restrictions

Creative Commons 0: Now with zero restrictionsDidn't they already have this?Didn't they already have this? I thought they already had something for dedicating works to the public domain.

Tags: Creative Commons 0, Creative Commons

Discussion threads 2009-02-27

Creative Commons 0: Now with zero restrictions

There's free and then there's Free. The Creative Commons folks have just unleashed a new license that's about as free as it gets: Creative Commons 0 1.0. Essentially CC0 allows the user to put the work into the public domain: The person who associated a work...

Tags: Creative Commons, Public Domain, Work, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Unofficial Change.gov iPhone Web app available

Change.gov, the Web site of the Obama administration’s transition team, is now available as a Web app optimized for the iPhone. To access it, navigate to this link from your iPhone. There seems to be some confusion about the new Web App, however. Although the Apple Web...

Tags: Creative Commons, Apple iPhone, Web Application, Web Site, Cloud Computing, Web Site Development, Internet, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-15

Creative Commons needs help with "non-commercial use"

Creative Commons needs help with "non-commercial use"Commercial UseI release all my works under the CC NonCommercial Share-Alike license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). I've always assumed commercial usage meant the user was personally and financially benefiting from the usage of the works in question. That allows non-profits to still make money because they're not...

Tags: Creative Commons

Discussion threads 2008-12-04

Creative Commons needs help with "non-commercial use"

One of the things you learn pretty quickly in the open source community is that "non-commercial use" is not a well-defined term. This is why the Open Source Definition doesn't allow for clauses to restrict commercial use. The same can't be said for Creative Commons, and they're looking for some...

Tags: Creative Commons, Marketing Research, Open Source, Marketing, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-12-03

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

Best Practices for Endpoint Data Loss Prevention

The modern enterprise faces information protection challenges it never could have imagined in the days when mainframes were dominant. The average laptop can carry up to a half-terabyte of storage, while keychain-sized USB storage devices can hold entire customer databases. It users promiscuously connect to any network within wireless range...

Tags: Creative Commons, Network, Data Loss, Best Practice, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-08-02

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

CC PDF Converter 0.7 (Windows)

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, Microsoft Windows, 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 2.2.1 (Windows)

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, Microsoft Windows, ccPublisher, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-10-30

MozCC 2.4.3 (Windows)

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, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, 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 1.0.1 (Windows)

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 Windows, Microsoft Corp., Add-in, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2007-09-14