Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Daniel Carrera <dcarrera AT math.umd.edu>]

drew Roberts wrote:

> I have often kicked around the idea of someone running a server where you 
> submit, say, an MD5 hash and they record it in a database along with a 
> timestamp and a pgp type sig and also wend you back the hash, timestamp 
> signed for your records.
> 
> Thoughts?

It's a good idea. I like it. For it to work, you should pick something 
better than MD5. I'd probably recommend HMAC based on SHA-1. But that's an 
implementation detail, we can talk about this later.

But yes, it looks like a good idea. The benefit of this idea would be 
proportional to the ammount of trust one has on the server. That is, the 
owner of the server can always falsify this. But if the server is 
trustworthy, this could be good to have.

> In light of the moral rights thread going on now, I take it it would not be 
> free as air in countries that have the moral rights in their copyright laws.

IANAL  :-)

Cheers,
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