Well, this is exciting news for all of us interested in CC: Yahoo! has added a CC Search Engine that will let users search with a CC filter. Try it out here. This will be GREAT for folks like me trying to put together CC presentations and websites--it's a quick place to find work that I can incorporate into my own projects without fear of copyright infringment. It'll also be great for students who want to add graphics, texts, tables, and so on from non-copyrighted sources in THEIR public writing projects. I'll have to play with it later and see if it can find my videogame articles, which were released under CC licenses.

Lessig has blogged about the new search engine. His comments:

This is exciting news for us. It confirms great news about Yahoo!. I met their senior management last October. They had, imho, precisely the right vision of a future net. Not a platform for delivering whatever, but instead a platform for communities to develop. With the acquisition of Flickr, the step into blogging and now this tool to locate the welcome mats spread across the net, that vision begins to turn real.