[cc-community] Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Sat Jun 24 03:40:15 EDT 2006


On 24 Jun 2006, at 01:13, Greg London wrote:

> I just saw the CC page has a blurb about
> "Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft(r) Office"
> which is apparently a plugin provided from microsoft.com
> Am I reading that right?

You are reading it right.

"Creative Commons has announced that you can download a tool now from  
Microsoft
that will attach a Creative Commons license of your choice to any  
Word, Excel
or Powerpoint document. As much as I appreciate Creative Commons, I  
think you
should look at the EULA and read it carefully before you say "I do." I
understand the hopes here, but it does seem a mismatch. I have marked  
the parts
I particularly noticed. The tool makes the process easy, but it is  
not your only
choice."

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060621211919623

> Because I thought Bill
> thought we were a bunch of communists.

Gates is against the commons, but he's not against pirating culture:

"Gates: Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the  
owner wasn't
paid for. So yes."

http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/2803

- Rob.


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