Tag: CC

BitTorrent -- while loved by techies like you and me -- often gets a bad rap because of the assumption that it's only used to transmit illegal content like pirated software or cammed movies. There are, of course, loads of completely legal torrents floating around, but they're sometimes hard to find. Mininova underwent a rather forcible re-tooling last year and now serves legal content only. ...

Google's image search is one of the fastest ways to find a picture of just about anything, but that doesn't mean you can use all of the images you find on your website or blog. We've shied away from finding images for Download Squad on Google Image Search in the past, because it's hard to find and credit the creator of the image and be sure you have permission to use it. Google just made it a ...

After all of the issues with Facebook's terms of service and concerns over who owns user-created content on the site, it's interesting to see Creative Commons enter the Facebook arena with an app. Installing the Creative Commons app lets users display the CC badge of their choice on their profiles, indicating the licensing terms they want to use for their profile content. This could be a big step ...

Last week the folks over at Creative Commons released version 3.0 of their licensing suite for user-generated content. The bulk of the changes center around clarifying the existing licenses, and addressing the growing internationalization of Creative Commons content. With 3.0 also comes a compatibility structure that will allow them to identify and certify other licenses as CC BY-SA (Attribution ...

Google is full of cash that they have to offload. Perhaps just for tax purposes, but also just to be good and give back to the community that gave them so much. What better place to give a nice wad of cash to then the Creative Commons (CC) during their annual fundraising campaign? Creative Commons is a little non-profit organization that helps creators of original content retains their licensing ...