[cc-community] for those who want "free only" buttons

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Thu Feb 15 07:55:51 EST 2007


On Thursday 15 February 2007 12:09 am, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 18:49 -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
> > So, giventhis, as things stand now, it might be best for people to list
> > media of various licenses all on seperate pages with the page using the
> > same license. Then, if needed, license the page itself with a dual
> > license but on a seperate page. Would that help today with how the search
> > engines work?
>
> It would help given the way Google and Yahoo! web search for CC work
> currently, but I think the need to get most sites publishing CC licensed
> music to reorganize their sites around this scheme for it to be
> effective makes it a nonstarter.

Actually, I was thinking more of the smaller sites with articles on music, or 
people blogging about music. Granted, it may be a non-starter for the world 
in general, but if it would help, it would not hurt for those listing Free 
Works to try and do something like this. I will have to try and do so for my 
own sites as you say.
>
> Deployment of more precise metadata in pages and feeds and
> implementation of media-specific CC-enabled search seems more promising
> to me.

Yes. Returning search results based on file metadata would be nice.
>
> That said, feel free to reorganize any sites you control or influence
> *and* add precise metadata to their pages and feeds.

If it will help, I will certainly try to start doing this more.

all the best,

drew
-- 
(da idea man)


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