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NBC Denies YouTube Debate Requests

NBC's still being stubborn about allowing its footage of the Presidential debates to be put in the public domain or licensed under Creative Commons, effectively letting the more passionately patriotic online citizenry share and remix for video sites like YouTube.

Wikipedia Competitor Released In Beta

While Jimmy Wales has been busy of late creating a new search engine and dreaming of challenging Google for dominance within the field, another Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has been working on a new collaborative resource designed at offering more validity and expertise to its entries.

Creative Commons 3.0 Launched

Creative Commons, the non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share, has launched version 3.0 of their copyright licenses.

Why's My Free eBook For Sale On Amazon?

Well-known marketing author, Seth Godin, doesn't want you to buy his new book for sale on Amazon. First off, it's not new. Godin published it in 2005. Second, he published it as an e-book and offered it for free download on his website. So where did this $9.99 copy of Everyone's an Expert (About Something) come from? It appears to be a company called BN Publishing, which has an eBay store as well. Godin's book available in print form, distributed and promoted by Amazon, was news to him too.

Google Brings Samba, CC Early Gifts

Samba and Creative Commons, both with ties in the open source community, benefited from Google's largesse, an early present to a pair of organizations for the holidays.

Microsoft Releases Free Licensing Tool For Office

Microsoft has added a free copyright licensing tool that the hundreds of millions of people using Office products like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can use to protect their work.

Creative Commons Has Teeth

Regular listeners to Adam Curry's Daily Source Code podcast will be familiar with the lawsuit Curry filed against a Dutch tabloid concerning family photos Curry had posted to Flickr under a Creative Commons license.