[cc-metadata] Standardizing JPEG licensing

Nathan R. Yergler nathan at yergler.net
Tue Aug 2 09:31:37 EDT 2005


Mike and I spoke about this yesterday afternoon and came to the 
conclusion that we really need to support both EXIF and XMP embedding.  
They both have interested audiences, and we can probably leverage them 
better by supporting both approaches independently or simultaneously.

The CC XMP specification (http://creativecommons.org/technology/xmp) 
already lays out two possible formats for the Copyright field, which are 
minor distinctions upon what Christopher suggested.  In particular they 
omit the copyright owner, presumably because XMP (and EXIF) provides 
other tags which are more appropriate for that information.  The two 
possibly formats for the copyright statement are:

This work is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons 
Attribution-ShareAlike license 
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

and

This work is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons 
Attribution-ShareAlike license 
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ verify at 
http://example.com/metadata.html

The difference being the "verify at [URL]" statement at the end of the 
statement.  The proposal is that either format will be considered 
valid.  This allows users to make statements about the license without 
having to use verification RDF.  Unless there are objections or further 
refinements people would like to see, I'll write up a specification page 
using this format.

Nathan
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>EXIF is very similar to TCOP in MP3, and ICOP in MP2/4, so I lean toward
>supporting in audio and video. I do recommend a slight modifier of how the
>text should read:
>
>Instead of:
>
>C 1995 Example Photographer. Licensed to the public under
>http://creativcommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ verify at
>http://example.com/licenseinfo
>
>C 2005 Example Photographer <email at example.com> -- This work is licensed to
>the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
>License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ verify at
>http://example.com/licenseinfo
>
>-- Christopher Allen
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