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  • From: John Doig <john AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [cc-devel] CC REST API Updated for Public Domain Mark
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:07:20 -0800

Hello everyone,

This morning, the CC REST API was updated to include support for the Public Domain Mark and to deprecate the issuing of the retired Public Domain Certification and Dedication. We have also added a new element, `deprecated`, in license responses, that denotes whether or not the issued license has been deprecated by Creative Commons. These changes affect all versions of the REST API, excluding 1.0.

The newly added Public Domain Mark license class can be accessed using the identifier "mark" (e.g. http://api.creativecommons.org/rest/1.5/license/mark/get). Requests made with the deprecated license class "publicdomain," are redirected behind the scenes to the CC0 license class, resulting in a CC0 license response. For integrating public domain licensing into your applications, please rely on the Public Domain Mark (license class "mark") or the CC0 waiver (license class "zero"), depending on your exact needs.

For more information about the update, consult the full documentation at http://api.creativecommons.org/docs/. If you have any issues, feature requests, or questions about the REST API, then feel free to send a message to the cc-devel mailing list with your questions. To file a bug report with the REST API, please submit your issue to the API project in our roundup bug tracker http://code.creativecommons.org/issues/.

-JED




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