p2p news / p2pnet: You have to give it to Bill and the Boyz. They don’t miss a trick. And their latest marketing effort exploits Creative Commons.

“Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works, have teamed up to release a copyright licensing tool that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licensing information for works in popular Microsoft Office applications,” says the company.

“The copyright licensing tool will be available free of charge at Microsoft Office Online, and CreativeCommons.org. The tool will enable the 400 million users of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office PowerPoint to select one of several Creative Commons licenses from within the specific application.”

Microsoft has Creative Commons founder Lawrence Less saying, “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.

“We’re incredibly excited to work with Microsoft to make that ability easily available to the hundreds of millions of users of Microsoft Office.”

The, “collaboration of Microsoft and Creative Commons to bring Creative Commons licenses to Microsoft Office applications underscores how for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations can work together to bring innovative ideas and tools to the public,” says Alan Yates, general manager of the Information Worker Division at Microsoft.

Microsoft and Creative Commons, “partnered with 3sharp LLC, a Redmond-based independent solution provider to develop and test the copyright licensing tool,” says Microsoft.

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Also See:
Microsoft – Microsoft and Creative Commons Release Tool for Copyright Licensing, June 20, 2006

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