Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Nathan Yergler <nathan AT yergler.net>]

How do you believe a web statement differs from the attribution URL,
functionally?

IIRC a "web statement" is supposed to be a web accessible resource
that contains information about the rights, permissions, etc related
to the work. CC licenses state that the attribution URL only needs to
be cited with the work when it includes copyright information or
license notice (4(b)(iii) in
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode). So both need to
be web-accessible resources that contain license, copyright, or rights
information. I believe that was the basis for treating them as
synonyms.

NRY


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Jonas Öberg <jonas AT coyote.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I was just made aware that in the license chooser, when a user enters
> a URL to attribute the work to, this is stored in different properties
> in the XMP and RDFa formats. In XMP, it's stored in
> xapRights:WebStatement and in RDFa it's stored in cc:attributionURL. I
> understand the difference between the two, but it's not clear to me
> why there is a difference between how the information from the license
> chooser is encoded in the various formats.
>
> It seems to me that there ought to be a separate field that allows a
> user to specify a WebStatement, and that the URL to attribute the work
> to should be encoded in the cc:attributionURL regardless of what
> format is used.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Jonas
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