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Creative Commons Add-In for Office Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the newer-friendlier-borg dept.

Ctrl+Alt+De1337 writes "Creative Commons has announced the release of an add-in to Microsoft Office that allows the easy addition of a CC license to files created with Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. It was co-developed by Microsoft and Creative Commons and only works in Office XP and Office 2003. It can be downloaded from Microsoft's download center after a validation check, and CNet has a screenshot available of the tool."

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  1. Re:Why do you need an add-in? by monomania · · Score: 5, Informative

    "What would be far more useful would be a way to tag Creative Commons documents in web pages, and then if some search engine (Google? please?) would explicitly label Creative Commons results as such..."

    There is; on the web badge code, the following (or, depending on the license, something similar) is encapsulated:

    <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
            xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
            xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax -ns#">
    <Work rdf:about="">
    <license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/2.5/" />
    </Work>
    <License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 2.5/">
          <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attributi on" />
          <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduct ion" />
          <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribut ion" />
          <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Derivativ eWorks" />
          <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice" />
    </License>
    </rdf:RDF>

    It's up to the browser/search engine/application as to what is done with it.

  2. Re:Why should they need to? by Ctrl+Alt+De1337 · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you don't attach a license with your work anyone can do anything with it without you being able to do anything about it.

    This is the exact opposite of what the law says. If you create an original work of any kind, whether or not you register it with the copyright office it is still copyrighted to you and no one can do anything with it without your permission. If you don't put a license on it, then it is assumed that you are reserving all of your rights not waiving all of your rights.