Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[John Doig <john AT creativecommons.org>]

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