Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Luis Villa" <luis.villa AT gmail.com>]

On 8/18/06, Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 19:18 -0400, Rob Litzke wrote:
> > There are tags for most of the information we want to include
> > ( ImageDescription, Artist, and Copyright), or 0x010E, 0x013B, and
> > 0x8298, respectively. I think it makes the most sense to include title
> > and artist in their own tags and just use copyright to link to the
> > appropriate license.
>
> 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, even one that (say) isn't public yet, or
which I currently choose to distribute by methods other than the web?
That seems incredibly onerous.

Luis
(apologies if you get this twice)