Mozilla Firefox 1.0 browser ships with the Silicon Valley nonprofit's Creative Commons new search technology, allowing users to search the web for royalty-free content.
An updated beta version of its search engine, which can perform searches for text, images, audio and video free to re-use. This task is accomplished with a unique search refinement.
"The Creative Commons search engine helps companies, educators, and artists find content they can re-use without having to call a lawyer, and it offers authors and artists who want to share their work a competitive advantage toward having their work discovered online," said Neeru Paharia, assistant director of Creative Commons and the search engine's product manager. For example, a documentary filmmaker could use the Creative Commons engine to search for "images of the Eiffel Tower free for noncommercial use," and incorporate any or all of the many photographs indexed. A DJ seeking songs free to remix or mash-up could browse listings of MP3s by their legal terms. An entrepreneur seeking illustrations for her slideshow presentation could reduce costs and liability by using a Creative Commons image-specific search. An educator building course materials could include texts and videos found by the engine. |
Sounds good! Maybe those using Firefox, myself included, can give us their thoughts on the effectiveness of this new search tool. You can visit the Creative Commons website for more information. Also, you can head over to Music Industry News and read the whole story.
Source: Music Industry News
