After Yahoo!, on July 9th, Google officially launched the ability to filter search results using some rights reserved licenses inside their Image Search tool. It is now easy to restrict your Image Search results to find images in the public domain or published under Creative Commons or Gnu Free Documentation licenses, so that you can find content from across the web that you can share, use, and even modify. Read more »

On May 26th, 2009, on Yahoo’s Search Blog, Polly Ng and Anuj Sahai announced the addition of CC license image filtering options to their image search and also explained why CC licenses are so important for finding images online. Read more »

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. if the user submits an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks.

MediaWiki developers are working on integrating OpenStreetMap (Osm) (la versione libera di Google Maps) with Wikipedia and all other their projects. A fundamental step for development of both communities, that can free users from dependency from proprietary geodata, now almost an exclusive property of TeleAtlas. We hope that public administrations will become sensible and that will give their data to the free platform. Otherwise lets ask for a law that will oblige them to release geodata in the public domain. Read more »

Sketchory.com is an online archive featuring 250,000 embeddable, playable, remixable drawings under a Creative Commons license CC+, that allows also commercial uses. Read more »

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