I think it can be improved and these are my suggestions.

• Website license: the administrator can choose a general license for the whole website, in “Settings > Writing” page. The plugin adds an explicative xhtml text template in the footer, specifying that this license is the default license that can be different for each post, if noted: “Except where otherwise <a href=”http://[for example, a credits page]“>noted</a>, content on this site is licensed under a [full name of the license]”; the user can modify this template (for example “<p>© 2007 by Lorenzo De Tomasi. Except where otherwise <a href=”http://[for example, a credits page]“>noted</a>, text only content on this site is licensed under a [full_name_of_the_license] <br />[license_button]</p>”;
• User preferred license: each registered WordPress user, in his profile page, can specify its preferred license, that overwirtes the blog license and can be overwrited by the post license.
• Post/page license: the post/page author can choose a specific license for a specific post/page. When you install the plugin, it automatically adds in each “Write post” and “Write page”page a box where you can choose the specific license for the single post, answering to the three simple questions you can find in wp-license options;
• the specific text before the license button can be added and modified in each post, for example “All images in this post are property of Matteo Bedendo. Text only content of this post is licensed under a [full name of the license]”;
• add license property in TheLoop, for displaying the license for each post in archives, category pages etc.

Finding a great image online elicits a little thrill, but it can be tricky – if you’re looking for a pic to pop into a presentation or illustrate a Web page, you need to know if you’re allowed to use that photo, and how you can use it. Today, Yahoo! Image Search is launching a Creative Commons license filter that allows you to simply and quickly find images that are available for reuse.

When you use Yahoo! Image Search, you’ll now see a checkbox for Creative Commons allowing you to filter for images from Flickr that can be used commercially or that can be modified (remixed, tweaked, or built upon) with restrictions set by the image’s creator.

Congrats to the Yahoo! team for extending CC even further into their platform!

Forgive me, but a picture (screen shot) is worth a thousand words (searches):

Creative Commons is seeking proposals for presentations or panels to be presented at the Technology Summit. Topics of interest include:

• RDFa and ccREL implementations/deployments;
• Creative Commons related applications (unique or interesting integration of licensing, as well as reports on consuming or repurposing CC metadata;
• Provenance of information in Semantic Web applications;
• Digital copyright registries (“copyright 2.0″), especially in relation to the above technologies.

Presentation slots are 30 minutes long; if additional time is required, email Nathan Yergler to discuss options. Send proposals in the form of abstracts to techsummit@creativecommons.org by Friday, April 24, 2009.

Travel funding is unavailable.

If you’re interested, see the full details and CFP in the wiki.