Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Peter Liljenberg <peter AT commonsmachinery.se>]

No, I don't expect full RDF representation either, just that cc:attribute (and the other terms) would be defined as something like "attribute in compliance with the CC license legal code", and then guidelines to tool developers on what that means (or even just guidelines). This is how I started summarising it, but if that is not the intention I appreciate being corrected straight away:

The Creative Commons licenses all require attribution, and defines in the legal code how to do it. ccREL ties [though it seems not formally] these requirements to the metadata on the work, so that if these properties are set they must be used in the attribution:

• dcterms:license, cc:license or xhtml:license (synonyms in RFD): the URI linking to the license terms (e.g. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

• cc:attributionName: the name of the author and/or designated attribution parties

• dc:title: the title of the work

• cc:attributionURL: a URI associated with the work, which should refer to copyright or licensing information about the work (otherwise there is no obligation to include the URI, and another property should be used)
  

I might be interpreting ccREL too harshly since I'm rather new to this area, but this is also because I'm coming from the direction "how can this support tooling and automate attribution". This thread indicates that there's a risk that a loosely defined cc:attribute (and the other properties too) will cause tools to implement incorrect license processing.

/Peter

On 24 June 2013 18:12, Nathan Yergler <nathan AT yergler.net> wrote:

I don't believe there was any expectation that the RDF representation
could fully express the legal code of a license. I think that means
Maarten is correct.

Of course, there are tools out there that take the attribution
requirement and "just happen" to generate attribution text that
matches what the CC licenses require. I'd have to think about it more
to decide if that's a sane behavior or if they should be checking
something else before deciding to do that.

NRY

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Peter Liljenberg
<peter AT commonsmachinery.se> wrote:
> This reminds me of the question the other week about cc:attributionURL vs
> xmpRights:WebStatement, where the response was that cc:attributionURL was
> related to the legal code of the license even though that wasn't fully
> expressed in the ccREL description. That made it map to the semantics of
> xmpRights:WebStatement.
>
> cc:require cc:attribution seems to me to also be related to the legal code
> that specifies exactly what attribution means (e.g. 4b in
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode). Or is it intended to
> be the more generic term described in the RDF schema?
>
> /Peter
>
>
>
>
> On 24 June 2013 17:59, Maarten Zeinstra <mz AT kl.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jonas,
>>
>> To be clear, this is the description of the namespace:
>>
>> "credit be given to copyright holder and/or author" according to
>> view-source:https://creativecommons.org/schema.rdf
>>
>> So I read this as a binary that when present credit should be given. It
>> does not specify a way to do that, and I think it shouldn't as well.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Maarten
>>
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>> On Jun 24, 2013, at 17:36 , Jonas Öberg <jonas AT coyote.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> here's a question from IRC which was left hanging. Wondering if anyone
>> here has any thoughts about it :)
>>
>> 09:14 <jonaso> Been looking at
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/372427 which uses ccREL cc:permits
>> and cc:requires to express licenses which are not CC licenses, ie., FAL.
>> They've coded FAL same as CC BY-SA
>> 09:14 <jonaso> I wonder if that's the intent: ns#Attribution has a
>> specific meaning in the CC vocabulary which is slightly different from FAL's
>> attribution requirement.
>> 09:15 <jonaso> So I wonder if we should think of ccREL ns#Attribution as
>> "requires some attribution, unspecified exactly how, what or when" or if
>> ns#Attribution should mean more exactly the terms of the CC licenses.
>> 09:16 <jonaso> In the latter case, I guess there should be a separate
>> vocabulary to express terms more closely to FAL and other licenses.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Jonas
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