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"Yahoo took another step toward fulfilling a promise to make its portal a platform where communities develop, rather than a stagnant site limited to serving information.

"The latest feature, released Thursday as a beta, allows users to search content hosted by Creative Commons, a nonprofit group that specializes in copyrighting material made available for limited reuse.

"While most material on the Internet comes with a copyright, Yahoo Creative Commons will help developers and site owners find content published by authors willing to share or reuse it, according to the company."

Tim Grey. Yahoo Offers Creative Commons Search. InternetNews.com. March 24, 2005.

See also:
Larry Lessig. Larry Lessig on Searching Creative Commons. Yahoo Search Blog. March 23, 2005.

Editor’s note: See also SNTReportcom’s prior story on the Creative Commons Search Engine.

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