Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Alek Tarkowski <alek.tarkowski AT creativecommons.pl>]

Hi all,
(sorry for crossposting, seemed a good subject for both lists)

I've heard recently several comments regarding what a nuisance it is in 
some situations to provide the necessary licensing information - for 
instance a newspaper printing a CC licensed story often does not have 
the space to provide the name of the license together with its URL.

So I've been thinking about possible solutions and I remember reading on 
the cc-licenses list that an abbreviation might be acceptable: for 
instance CC BY-NC-SA 2.5. That does save space, especially in languages 
like mine, where words are long.

But a friend of mine has suggested the use of the four deed icons 
instead of words - the way MozCC does that for webpages.

So I would like to know what you think about this. And I know this would 
require a change in the license wording. But are there, for instance, 
any legal hooks to this - difficulties caused by the fact that these are 
visual elements?

Or maybe this can be done already with the current licenses?

Best,

Alek Tarkowski

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