[cc-licenses] Slashdot Thread On "Proving Creative Commons Licensing of a Work?"

Luis Villa luis at tieguy.org
Tue Jan 30 09:09:52 EST 2007


On 1/30/07, Bryan  Rasmussen <BRS at itst.dk> wrote:
> I suppose a third
> party archive of creative commons licensed material would be sufficient
> authority to defend against arguments of faking the screenshots.

For what it is worth, I've argued on cc-devel that CC should provide a
central 'registry' for CC-licensed material, which would help solve
this problem and others, but CC has apparently decided against that.
See:

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-devel/2006-August/000213.html

both for my argument and Mike's response.

(search for "CC could perhaps resolve this problem by offering a
web-facing central...")

Luis



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