Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 09:53 -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> It would be nice if you didn't have to use the URL, but could just use
> the name of the license ("Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0")
> or even the "initials" ("CC by-sa 3.0").
> 
> In 2007, it seems that the CC brand is well-known enough, at least to
> Internet people, that it's really not necessary to include the URL. For
> non-Internet people, including an URL isn't going to help, anyways.

I think Internet/non-Internet is the wrong breaking point, more like
savvy/non-savvy.  Many of the non-savvy do have net access, so a URL
does help.

That said, Google has the correct #1 result for both BY-SA and
Attribution-ShareAlike, and doing that lookup is easier than typing a
full URL.

Another interesting case is use of only the icons to identify a license.
I've seen people do this, e.g., in video bumpers or in CD booklets.


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