[cc-community] CC+ Logo Pointing To My Own Website?

Michael David Crawford michael at geometricvisions.com
Sat Jun 28 18:37:22 EDT 2008



Greg London wrote:
> Just an FYI to make sure you're clear on this:
> 
> Any URL provided for attribution purposes must point to licensing
> information for that work in particular.

Ah, thanks, I hadn't understood that.

It happens that as I create new versions of my music, and upgrade to 
newer license versions, the license XML is really getting out of hand. 
As time goes by, it threatens to make my music page slow to download for 
human visitors.

So in ccPublisher, I've started using this page to provide license 
verification:

http://www.geometricvisions.com/music/license.html

But you can see that the page isn't really meant for human consumption - 
it's for ccLookup's automated use.

I really see a problem with the use of cryptographic hashes to identify 
exact versions of my audio tracks.  It means that only the original 
versions I provide will pass license verification, whereas if a user 
alters even so much as one character of an ID3 tag or VorbisComment, it 
won't verify.

What I would prefer is to simply state that my song Emergence is BY-SA 
3.0 Unported, in all of its manifestations - recordings in CD or digital 
audio form, or as sheet music.

Such a page would be more suitable for humans. :-D

However, the website URL I'd like to see in videos that use my music is 
just my homepage; I don't expect someone who sees my credits in a film 
festival to remember the exact URL of my license page; nor would they 
care to see if if they could.  What I want them visiting, and I'm sure 
what they would want to visit, is my whole website, starting with my 
homepage.

Enlighten me :-D

Thanks,

Michael David Crawford
michael at geometricvisions.com
http://www.geometricvisions.com/

    Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.


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