Office Suite Teams Up With Creative Commons

According to a press release issued by Microsoft, the mega-company is teaming up with the non-profit Creative Commons to offer copyright licenses directly in the MS Office suite of products for application to Powerpoint, Word, and Excel projects.

From the article:
"The goal of Creative Commons is to provide authors and artists with simple tools to mark their creative work with the freedom they intend it to carry,? said Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of Creative Commons. ?We?re incredibly excited to work with Microsoft to make that ability easily available to the hundreds of millions of users of Microsoft Office.?

The Creative Commons copyright tool addition is already available for free download at the MS Office site, here.

Read the entire release here.