Microsoft and Creative Commons have released a copyright licensing tool. The tool will help Microsoft product users to add Creative Commons licensing information in their MSOffice applications.


Microsoft and Creative Commons have released a copyright licensing tool. The tool will help Microsoft product users to add Creative Commons licensing information in their MSOffice applications.

“The goal of the Creative Commons licenses is to give an author a clearer ability to express his or her intentions regarding the use of the work.

The tool will enable 400 million users of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office PowerPoint to select one of Creative Commons licenses from within the specific application.” [source]

The Microsoft Office users will be able to choose Creative Commons licenses to retain copyright ownership of their works.

Davis Guggenheim, Member of the board of directors of Creative Commons, said: “Creative Commons licenses are essential for protecting my creative work and for sharing it with others. They help with copyright issues, which frees me to do my job: making movies. I’m glad Microsoft Office users can now so easily use Creative Commons’ tools”. [source]

To read the complete press release, source.

To visit Microsoft website, click here.

To visit Creative Commons website, click here.