Wordle.net—Beautiful WordArt Example of Creative Commons Tech License for NY and Elsewhere
There are few things that can cause lawyers to smile. As a blogger and columnist, this one got me not only to smile but to think about printing some tees. Wordle is a java web app (you will need the free Sun Java runtime plugin) that parses the major keywords off your rss feed to create one of the most visually engaging keyword clouds I’ve ever seen.
Even better, you will see that it uses a Creative Commons attribution license. That license allows you to take these images and use them for any purposes (creative, commercial, etc.) so long as attribution (credit) is given to the creator.
May I make money off of Wordle images?
Yes. The images created by the Wordle application are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Details:
Images created by the Wordle.net web application are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.You may take a Wordle, put it on your book cover, your t-shirt, your campaign poster, what have you. You may get rich off it. Just tell people how you made the image, or, if you’re using one from the gallery, where you got it.
If you use a screen-capture, PDF, or other image representation of a Wordle on this site, you must attribute the image to http://www.wordle.net/.
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