[cc-community] Help - Guidance on how to apply CC...

Gavin Lawrie gavin.lawrie at 2gc.co.uk
Fri Jun 23 08:31:54 EDT 2006


We are working over our web site which contains a large number of  
downloadable documents - things like case studies, white papers,  
presentations etc.  We are updating much of this material (Our  
documents are issued in pdf format) and would like it to be issued  
under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0  
England & Wales Licence.

So far so good... but now the questions begin.

First, presumably we have to mark our documents with the cc details -  
but we have been unable to find on the cc web site any guidance about  
what information you put on the text document itself to indicate the  
license terms.  We know from talking to those who use our materials  
that they are regularly printed out and then passed on as printed  
documents - so this tagging is important.  What is the 'correct' (or  
commonly used) form for marking a document?  How do we get around the  
lack of links back to the underlying cc license - is it OK to put in  
a URL, or do we have to somehow paste the whole text into the document?

Second, I think I have worked out how to add meta data to the pdf to  
indicate the copyright status (looks like we have to do this manually  
as the XMP template is not functional in Adobe CS2 or Acrobat Pro  
7).  But not sure if this is all we need to do - do we have to add cc  
license data to the web pages that hold these documents?  If so, do  
we do it for the site, the page, or the document?  If for site or  
page, where do we find out what we are supposed to put?

Third, we are hoping to use the Joomla CMS system to support our web  
site - does anyone know if Joomla plays nicely with CC?

Thanks in advance for your help

Best regards

Gavin Lawrie


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