David Rey of the eduCommons project at Utah State University is giving a great talk about his experiences upgrading Plone’s Content Licensing product to work in Plone 3.

Not only is the technical content great, the product is amazing. It provides a powerful, way to easily apply any license terms, including Creative Commons licenses, to content in a Plone website. Site administrators can apply licenses to content types, or to individual content objects. It helps you keep track of the licensing status of all the content on your site, and also lets you add your own licenses.

If you’re already familiar with Creative Commons licenses, they’re basically open source licenses for content that isn’t software: documents, music, images, etc. If you’re creating content that you want to share with others, Creative Commons is a great way to go. And thanks to the eduCommons folks, Plone now has world-class support for Creative Commons licenses.

A big “thank you” to David, Brent and the eduCommons team for developing a powerful, useful product and for sharing not only the tool, but also the techniques for building it, with the world!