Monthly Archives: June 2006

Microsoft and Creative Commons have teamed up to release the Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office, a copyright licensing tool that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licenses to works created in popular Microsoft Office applications. The software is available free of charge at Microsoft Office Online and will enable the 400 million users of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint to easily select Creative Commons licenses from directly within the application they are working in. The first document to be CC-licensed using this tool is the text of Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil’s iSummit keynote speech in English and Portugese.

via [creativecommons.org](http://creativecommons.org/).
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Earlier this week [Creative Commons Australia](http://creativecommons.org.au), in conjunction with the [OAK Law project](http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au) and the [ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation](http://www.cci.edu.au), played host to Mia Garlick, General Counsel of [Creative Commons](http://creativecommons.org) in San Francisco. While she was here, Mia met with a number of representatives of Australian universities, government and industry. This included participating in a full day seminar-workshop on the Creative Commons project with QUT researchers and representatives of the Queensland Government. Mia’s visit provided a valuable opportunity for the CC-AU team to learn more about recent developments in Creative Commons and discuss potential projects for its further implementation in Australia.

Brian Fitzgerald, Stuart Cunningham, Jessica Coates, Mia Garlick, Nic Suzor at [CCI](http://www.cci.edu.au). Continue reading →