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Yahoo Adds Search for Creative Commons Content

Posted by Zonk on from the attribution-only dept.

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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  1. Definitely Beta by Nos. · · Score: 5, Informative

    I tried a few different searches on a range of topics and on pretty much every page there was no notice of non-traditional license and most had a copyright notice at the bottom.

  2. Re:Blogs? by Raul654 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ahem...

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  3. Nutch powered CC search by otisg · · Score: 3, Informative

    It may be interesting to know that Nutch has been used for this purpose for a while now:
    http://search.creativecommons.org/index.jsp. It may also be interesting to know that Yahoo! Labs hosts a Nutch demo search engine with a few hundred million indexed web pages.

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  4. look for the CC logo, a license implies copyright by free2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Look for the CC logo, sometimes embedded inside some comments... (Beta indeed)

    As for the copyright notice, CC works usually have one. Only the license grants you more rights.
    Most CC licenses are quite different from "public domain".