Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Lucas Gonze" <lucas.gonze AT gmail.com>]

On 12/4/06, Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 23:05 -0800, Lucas Gonze wrote:
> > That's what I suspected.  I think that right now it just isn't
> > practical for musicians to figure out what a WOAF page might be.
>
> Maybe not call it a WOAF page? :)

How about a WOOF page?  This would be good because it would be silly.

> A rationalization for including a link to a "WOAF" page (or "web
> statement") in a file (the motivation was that a link to a license is
> meaningless--anyone could add a CC license link to a Madonna MP3) is
> that if media players and other software read and displayed the relevant
> metadata, it would be another link back to the artist, and links are
> valuable.  There is of course a chicken and egg problem...

I agree with this thinking.  I think it's absolutely right.  The only
question in my mind is about how to get people to do it at all, and
then to do a good enough job for the page to actually be legally
binding.  For example, I think the page has to give the person's name,
the date of the license grant, some specifics about the recording and
composition.