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From: Puria Nafisi Azizi <puria en hipatia.info>
Date: 21-jun-2006 11:56
Subject: [hipatia] Creative Commons & MS
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 Microsoft and Creative Commons Release Tool for Copyright Licensing

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

*REDMOND, Wash., and SAN FRANCISCO — June 20, 2006 —* 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^(r) Office
applications. The copyright licensing tool will be available free of
charge at Microsoft Office Online, http://office.microsoft.com, and
CreativeCommons.org. The tool will enable the 400 million users of
Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel^(r) and Microsoft Office
PowerPoint^(r) to select one of several Creative Commons licenses from
within the specific application.

"We're 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're 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."

"It's thrilling to see big companies like Microsoft working with
nonprofits to make it easier for artists and creators to distribute
their works," said Gilberto Gil, cultural minister of Brazil, host
nation for the Creative Commons iSummit in Rio de Janeiro June 23
through 25, where the copyright licensing tool will be featured. Gil,
who will keynote at the iSummit, has released one of the first
documents using the Creative Commons add-in for Microsoft Office.

The goal of the Creative Commons licenses is to give an author a
clearer ability to express his or her intentions regarding the use of
the work. The Microsoft Office tool allows users to choose from a
variety of Creative Commons licenses that enable an author to retain
copyright ownership, yet permit the work to be copied and distributed
with certain possible restrictions, such as whether or not the work can
be used commercially and whether or not modifications can be made to
the work. The full list of licenses available from Creative Commons is
available online at
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses. The tool
also provides a way for users to dedicate a work to the public domain.

"Microsoft's openness in working with the Creative Commons is a very
exciting because an author can now easily embed licenses to creative
works during the process of innovation," said Ian Angell, professor of
Information Systems at the London School of Economics (LSE). "This is
an important step in ensuring that each individual becomes aware of his
or her own intellectual property rights — and those of others. We at
the LSE are keen to work with Microsoft toward empowering the 'creators
of intellectual wealth' to become more involved in its commercial use."
The LSE partners with Creative Commons to drive Creative Commons
license adoption and awareness in England and Wales.

"Creative Commons licenses are essential for protecting my creative
work and for sharing it with others. They help with copyright issues,
which frees me to do my job: making movies. I'm glad Microsoft Office
users can now so easily use Creative Commons' tools," said Davis
Guggenheim, director of the documentaries "An Inconvenient Truth" and
"Teach" and member of the board of directors of Creative Commons.

"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," said 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.

*About Creative Commons*

Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001,
that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works —
whether owned or in the public domain. Creative Commons licenses
provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors,
artists and educators that build upon the "all rights reserved" concept
of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights reserved"
approach. It is sustained by the generous support of various
foundations including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, the Omidyar Network Fund, the Hewlett Foundation, and the
Rockefeller Foundation as well as members of the public. For general
information, visit http://creativecommons.org
<http://creativecommons.org/>.

*About Microsoft*

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses
realize their full potential.

Microsoft, Excel and PowerPoint are either registered trademarks or
trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other
countries.

The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the
trademarks of their respective owners.

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