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Friday, June 23, 2006

Microsoft teams with Creative Commons

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Microsoft announce availability of Microsoft Office add-in that enables easy access to Creative Commons copyright licenses.

Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office is a free Add-In for Microsoft Office Online that will enable users of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint to easily select Creative Commons licenses directly from within the application itself.

We are delighted to work with Creative Commons to bring fresh and collaborative thinking on copyright licensing to authors and artists of all kinds, said Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft. We are honored that creative thinkers everywhere choose to use Microsoft tools to give shape to their ideas. We are committed to removing barriers to the sharing of ideas across borders and cultures, and are offering this copyright tool in that spirit.

The goal of Creative Commons is to provide authors and artists with simple tools to mark their creative work with the freedom they intend it to carry, said Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of Creative Commons. We’re incredibly excited to work with Microsoft to make that ability easily available to the hundreds of millions of users of Microsoft Office.




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