[cc-community] wrong license info / logo

Alek Tarkowski alek.tarkowski at creativecommons.pl
Fri Feb 16 06:12:59 EST 2007


Mike Linksvayer wrote:
>
> Do you have any ideas about where people are going in Poland when they
> want to use a CC license apart from creativecommons.org/license ?
>
>   
I'm guessing, but I imagine they do things like copy the logo and the 
information from some other page, but not very carefully; sometimes 
people don't even use the logo - they just write: "This page is licensed 
under a Creative Commons license". And maybe link the words "CC" to the 
CC webpage; etc.

I understand there is little that you can do about this on the 
infrastructure side, but then a vision of myself trawling through the 
internet and checking licenses sounds extremely unpleasant and tedious. 
Hackers to the rescue? And CC as well? Would CC be intersted in first 
estimating the scale of the problem - this would require taking a sample 
of pages that use some common licensing phrase and checking (with some 
smart script) whether they a. link properly b. provide metadata. Cause 
maybe this isn't a big problem, only one visible to us...
If it is a problem, a similar tool could in general crawl the net, find 
pages with problems - and then someone would just have to find an email 
address and mail some standard request.

But I also think that this problem shouldn't just be left alone or fixed 
- if it really is a problem, then it means that we maybe need to rethink 
our 'education' strategy, since our key tool, the licensing engine, is 
somehow being ignored by licensors.

best,

alek

ps. the issue with sites like flickr, revver, archive.org, you name it, 
doing weird things with licensing is a different but big issue. I'm not 
sure there's one site that conforms fully with the CC model. What seems 
most annoying to me as a national lead is the inability to use localised 
licensing. Let's face it, the big licensing work occurs through sites 
like flickr. And what's the point of having localised licenses if people 
there use the generic one? I think CC HQ should maybe push harder for 
its partners to try to comply - it's a pity that even a flagship project 
like archive.org doesn't do this.

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Creative Commons Polska / Poland

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