Adding Creative Commons licenses to your documents allows others to use and incorporate your intellectual property while maintaining copyright protection for the work that you created. With over 140 million video, audio, text, image files and other objects protected by Creative Commons licenses, it is emerging as the standard licensing model for ensuring intellectual property rights.

What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share. Current copyright laws are generally extremely restrictive. Creative Commons has figured out the hard legal stuff to enable you to simply and easily express your preferences with respect to what people can do with your work.

Visit creativecommons.org for:
- a list and explanations of all 6 licenses
- The Creative Commons FAQ

How do I apply a Creative Commons license to my work?
When you publish a file, in the user interface you will see instructions on how to apply the Creative Commons license. The default license type is set to “Attribution�, which you can find in My Account >> File License. If you wish to change your default license type for Creative Commons:

1. When you publish your file, a publish window will popup and contain a field where you can choose your Creative Common License Type. This will affect only the document you are publishing.

2. You can go to My Account >> File License from the left menu. You will find instructions about how to change the license type of the existing documents, or how to find out more about Creative Commons.

3. If you wish to change the License Type for future documents, you can go to the same path above, and you will find a field where you can set a default License type.

The Power Edit mode for Write, Calc, and Show was developed using Java technology. What that means for you is that when you run the application Java applets (little applications written in Java) are launched from your browser. The first time this happens it may take some time. The good news is that now it takes even less time than it used to.

We expect users will save about 50~60% in downloading time with the new applets.

When you use Write, Calc, and Show the next time, they run just like any desktop application, since the applets are stored on your computer using the Java Virtual Machine developed by Sun.

These feature are working on Java version 1.4 and above. If you are using previous versions you may want to upgrade your Java software.

To check and see what version of Java you are currently running,
please visit here and click ‘Verify Installation.’

For the techies
Applet downloading time will be decreased dramatically because we recently applied Java’s brand new techniques, Pack200 & GZIP Compression.
With both techniques the compressed JAR files are transmitted over the network and the receiving application decompresses and restores them.

We just added another way for you to share files and publish documents to an even wider audience - through del.icio.us bookmarks!
Now you can circulate your favorite stories, research papers, agendas, schedules, and presentations with just a click of a button. You can also use del.icio.us to create links to web sites within your word processing documents.

What is del.icio.us?
del.icio.us allows you to:

* Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, restaurant reviews, and more on del.icio.us and access them from any computer on the web.
* Share favorites with friends, family, and colleagues.
* Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone’s favorite - they’ve already done the work of finding it. Explore and enjoy.

For a free del.icio.us account, go to del.icio.us.
For more information about del.icio.us, visit wikipedia

How do I use ThinkFree Online to bookmark documents?
From ThinkFree Docs, choose the document you want to bookmark and click the link “bookmark on del.icio.us.” You will then be asked to log in to your del.icio.us account. If your browser is set to accept cookies you will only need to log in the first time, after that your del.icio.us account information is stored for subsequent use.

How do I insert bookmarks from my del.icio.us list into my Write document?
Open or create a new Write file in Power Edit mode. Click on “Insert”, “Hyperlink”. On the new window that appears you will see the del.icio.us icon on the left side ( ). Clicking this icon allows you to log in to your del.icio.us account. Any bookmarks in your del.icio.us list can then be inserted into the current document.