Development of Creative Commons licenses

["J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <jbn AT forestfield.org>]

dm233 wrote:
> went looking for a standardized rights notice to add to a video distro 
> (similar to the FBI warning)  and couldn't find any...  anyone know of 
> any??  what is the required text??  where can i get  image ready 
> graphics.  any help would be great.

As far as I know, no official graphic of the kind you seek exists.  I would 
imagine you could make one up that has something similar to what is recommended 
for use in tags in files (see http://creativecommons.org/technology/ogg for more):

Copyright 1995 Example Band.
Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ verify 
at http://example.com/cclicenses.html

Ogg tags, for instance, could hold an entire copy of the text of a license 
without obstructing people's access to the recording.  You might be in a similar 
situation if you are distributing your video electronically.

Ideally, a copy of the license text would accompany the work; embedding the text 
within the file (perhaps not the video frames, but some tags in the enclosure 
format) allows people to easily pass along the license with the work.  Hence, 
people would know what their rights are even if they're offline or if the CC 
site is inaccessible.