This is from a UK publication:
http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5869
The coupling of Microsoft and Lawrence Lessig, an outspoken proponent of loosening restrictions on copyrights for digital content, may seem an unlikely one. But the software company and Lessig’s Creative Commons organization will announce Wednesday that they’ve teamed up to develop a tool that lets Microsoft Office users create Creative Commons licenses from within Microsoft Office documents.
Creative Commons licenses allow an author of published material to decide how he or she wants to allow others to republish or reuse that work. The new copyright licensing tool will enable people creating documents in Office, PowerPoint or Excel to immediately attach a Creative Commons license to the document through an option in the applications’ “File” command, said Tom Rubin, a Microsoft associate general counsel for intellectual property.
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