[cc-devel] Exif metadata
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Fri Aug 18 20:36:38 EDT 2006
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 20:18 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > I'd recommend populating it with a URL referencing a page that contains
> > a copyright notice for the embedded file. I link to a license is nearly
> > worthless -- anyone can add such a link to any image and there is no
> > telling who did it or whether the image is actually licensed.
>
> So I have to have personal web publishing capabilities if I want to
> embed a license in a file,
Don't even think of it as "embedding a license" in a file. This is
worthless for the reason noted above.
> even one that (say) isn't public yet, or
> which I currently choose to distribute by methods other than the web?
You don't have to distribute the file via the web to publish a copyright
notice on the web for the file in question.
And "methods other than the web" are just the reason web notice is
necessary. Anyone could embed a CC license link to any photo (or mp3,
etc) and mail it to anyone. Is the recipient supposed to believe that
the content is actually CC licensed? Why?
A web notice gives one the level of assurance that one normally gets
from the web ... as opposed to zero.
> That seems incredibly onerous.
It may be, but if I may repeat myself, embedding a reference to a
license itself is incredibly worthless.
Note that if one really wants to locally reference a specific license
one could use XMP or better yet completely filetype agnostic external
metadata.
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