Saturday, March 26, 2005

Creative Commons Search I tried the new Yahoo Creative Commons search and found that it can provide interesting and valuable returns. _____ JH (Thanks to Stephen Downes' OLDaily for this alert.) Creative Commons Search. For those (few) of you who don't know, Creative Commons is a type of license that allows you to use other people's work for free. In other words, it allows people to share content, rather than having to buy it from publishers. What will make Creative Commons really work is the ability to find this material. The Creative Commons website recent launched a Creative Commons search and this week's big news is the Yahoo Creative Commons search. All that free stuff, no evil copyright lawyers in sight. That, to me, is the best defense against the content predators of the RIAA, MPAA, CRIA and others. By Various Authors, Yahoo, March, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:21:05 AM    COMMENT []

Doug Kaye Interviews Ourmedia Founders News from IT Conversations (March 25): Doug Kaye-- "I drag out my own mic to interview Marc Canter and JD Lasica who have just launched Ourmedia.org. It's only an alpha release, and the site has already been SlashDotted, so in case you can't get in there to check it out for yourself, this interview with the founders is the next-best thing." http://ipost.com/rd/9z1zf6kfr0cntbfbgfv4dvqjo62mvq5sfuf2bben2po 9:11:40 AM    COMMENT []