Dapper and Creative Commons Empower Content Providers to Distribute Their Content Without Concern
February 1st., 2007 -- Dapper, the leading web integration company, and Creative Commons announced a joint solution today to allow content providers to easily distribute their content over the web. The new solution, based on Dapper's unique platform for publishers, leverages the Creative Commons set of licenses, enabling content owners to safely offer their content to other websites for syndication and consumption.
Dapper's new solution - the Dapper Content Distribution Suite - gives content owners an ability to wrap a license around their content, and automatically publish this content in a wide range of feed formats such as RSS, Widgets and APIs. These feeds are updated automatically, opening the doors for content to take new forms anywhere on the web.
Content owners have historically found it challenging to provide wide access to their content outside of their own web properties. These pressures have grown in recent years as audiences have become increasingly comfortable with asking for content in a variety of formats outside of a content owner's website, on blogs, widget sites and social networking pages.
With Dapper, consumers can take their favorite websites and legitimately place the content in their favorite spaces, such as social networking sites, blogs, mashups and home pages.
To see how to take advantage of this new service and effortlessly re-package web content as an API, RSS, widgets and much more, go to www.dapper.net.
About Dapper
Founded in 2006, Dapper is the leading web integration company, that allows content owners who wish to gather, manipulate and disseminate their content to do so effortlessly while tapping into new ways to monetize their content. Dapper, with its user generated API service, empowers anyone to visually transform any website into a building block that can then be inserted into another website, application or device. By eliminating the tremendous technological and business relationship barriers that exist when reusing other people's content in web services, Dapper empowers both content providers and content consumers to form a new customized version of the web where dynamic content moves around seamlessly and legitimately.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works - whether owned or in the public domain. Creative Commons licences provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators that build upon the Òall rights reservedÓ concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary Òsome rights reservedÓ approach. It is sustained by the generous support of various organizations including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation as well as members of the public. For general information, visit creativecommons.org.