Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Glenn Otis Brown" <glenn AT creativecommons.org>]

I don't know if this is quite on-point to the issue below, but note that
the licenses don't say URL, but URI, which according to the W3C is more
general than the term "URL" and about as broad a definition as exists for
a way to identify a particular resource.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-uri-clarification-20010921/

Also, keep in mind that contract law isn't as literally enforced as you
might think when it comes to adapting to new technologies. If, in 10
years, nothing anywhere close to a URI or URL exists, or if the
definition of that term has changed significantly, reasonable
interpretation of that license would allow a licensee to do the next best
or equivalent thing.

But maybe your point isn't exactly about the term URI in the license
itself . . . ?

Hope that helps. It's definitely a point to keep in mind, and we're
certainly open to more discussion on the matter, but I don't think it's
the sort of problem that needs absolute "proofing" at the moment.  

Glenn

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:11:01 -0800, "Mike Linksvayer"
<ml AT creativecommons.org> said:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:13:45 -0400, "Evan Prodromou"
> <evan AT wikitravel.org> said:
> > But this _is_ a good point. Copyright lasts for on the order of 100
> > years; the Web has been around for on the order of 10 years. It's kind
> > of naive to expect things in 2013 to be anything like they are in
> > 2003. In 1993, if I wanted to tell you how to get to an electronic
> > document, I would have given you the name of the CompuServe forum it
> > was in. Now, nobody knows what CompuServe was.
> 
> I said things were located on an ftp server in some directory back then. 
> That'd still work now, if I'd stayed with the ISP I was using.  I don't
> think it's quite fair to compare the web to compuserve, but point taken.
> 
> > I wonder if there's any way to keep the great convenience of an URL
> > reference for the license, but still future-proof the CC licenses for
> > when URLs, or the Web, or whatever, don't exist.
> 
> If you want to confuse people you could publish a hash of the license. I
> don't think it's publicized anywhere, but we do publish the hex-encoded
> SHA1 hash of the legalcode for each license, e.g.,
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/legalcode-checksum>. 
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