People who don't really believe that Google wants to make the world's information "universally accessible and useful" will, going forward, have a more difficult time arguing their point. Yesterday, Creative Commons announced that it's received a $500,000 gift from Anne Wojcicki and Sergey Brin.
Google is now offering a way for authors and publishers to offer content for free under the Creative Commons license on Google Books. Rightsholders who want to distribute their books can let users download, use, and share them.
It appears that all Wikimedia content will become available for free under the Creative Commons License soon. This has been approved by a 75% majority of community voters, though the decision has not yet been approved by the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees. The licensing update/result page says:
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.
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, 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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