Development of Creative Commons licenses

[James Grimmelmann <james AT grimmelmann.net>]

drew Roberts wrote:
> But by their very mixing of the free and non-free under one banner, they 
> actually make this searching more difficult. This is no nit picky complaint, 
> this is a real prolem for at least one person (me) when searching for BY and 
> BY-SA works.
>
> It is possible that I am putting the blame for the problem in the wrong place. 
> I will redily admit that. But I will not admit that it is not a real problem.

On much of what matters here, we may differ only in emphasis.  I agree 
that the CC badges that say only "some rights reserved" without 
providing the license elements were unfortunate.  So too is the practice 
of saying "a Creative Commons license" without saying which one.  I 
would like to see a greater emphasis by CC in encouraging licensors to 
be fully descriptive about which license they are using.

The goal of easy searchability for content licensed under particular 
licenses is something that we all hope will be better achieved as 
metadata annotations and search tools improve.

James