Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Davide Fugazza <davide.fugazza AT agnula.org>]

Hello,
and thank you for your time.

On 24/apr/04, at 21:54, Mike Linksvayer wrote:

> It looks like http://muzik.agnula.org still has some very visible bugs 
> -- I get one or more warnings along the lines of

It appears that you visited the site in the middle of some maintenance. 
I apologize for that (yes, sometimes we do changes on the live site).

> Also it isn't immediately obvious where one should go to contribute 
> music ("Manager").

Thank you for the suggestion, we'll take care of that.
And thanks for the links too.

> While I'm at it, one thing that really bugs me is the lack of direct 
> download links.

That's because we track downloads to our database as a service to our 
users.
We could use Apache logs, but loosing the power of the database.

> Content-Disposition "attachment; filename=03_-_Mima_-_A_espera.mp3"

we simply send a "Location: /03_-_Mima_-_A_espera.mp3 " to the client, 
who is redirected

> - Also add
>
> <Work rdf:about="">
>   <license rdf:resouce="{license_url}"/>
> </Work>

Isn't it there?

> It would also make things easier if you'd add the appropriate license 
> button to each page (e.g., 
> <http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights.png>), otherwise 
> URLs need to be added manually via 
> <http://search.creativecommons.org/url-add/>.

Adding this right now

> - And actually embed in mp3 and ogg files a copyright statement with 
> reference to the page containing RDF also according to 
> <http://creativecommons.org/technology/nonweb>.

It is there. But since we added this feature only recently, many (ok, 
the most part) of files aren't tagged - we are asking users to review 
their uploads.
We 100% followed CC's guidelines!

> One last thing -- it would be super cool if you could also ask whether 
> an uploaded song is derived from another, asking for a URL for the 
> source song(s) if that is the case, and publish dc:source as 
> appropriate in the metadata (and expose someplace in the web page).

I know. Our users are already asking for that, it's in the plans.

> Sorry if that seems like a lot of "suggestions" (I have many more!) 
> coming from nowhere.  If I'm being overly critical it is because on 
> first glance your site has tons of potential.

You're welcome, and thank you for your kind words.

> Please let me know when the PHP warnings mentioned above are taken 
> care of and I'll post an entry at <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/> 
> about Agnula.

Should be fixed now.
Thank you,
Davide