Microsoft and Creative Commons Announce Tool forr CC Licenses of MS Office Documents

Microsoft and Creative Commons announced the launch of a tool that will embed a copyright license selection tool into MS Office applications according to CNET News.  The tool will allow the document creator to designate a copyright intent for subsequent re-publishing of their work.  Given the 400 million licensed users of MS Office applications and the many original documents they create, the new tool could ramp up in use fairly quickly.

The plug-in is available for download at either Microsoft or Creative Commons.