Yahoo Adds Search for Creative Commons Content

BlakeCaldwell writes "Yahoo has added the ability to search specifically for content with unconventional copyright arrangements. The search tool was produced in order to help promote Creative Commons' efforts to advocate the use of nontraditional copyright arrangements between digital content developers and people interested in licensing those individuals' work. The group said that most of the content available through the Yahoo search can be licensed for free under required attribution or noncommercial usage guidelines." Commentary on Lawrence Lessig's Blog.

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Re:Yahoo is good?

[roseblood]

I don't know about that...

look here and notice there's no option to " search specifically for content with unconventional copyright arrangements."
That link is what you get when you select ADVANCED options on the yahoo search. How many people even BOTHER to do that?

I mean, the way to yahoo is www.yahoo.com, and a scant few will use the advanced search feature. Think about likely it is for people to end up using "http://search.yahoo.com/cc" instead of "www.yahoo.com"

That's like Microsfot saying the have code with no bloat and fast effecient execution, but hide it inside edlin.exe.