discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Chris Snyder <chris AT psydeshow.org>]

I have a feature in my CMS that lets users import images and files from 
other websites, and I've been racking my brain about how to track down 
CC metadata when all I'm given is a URL to a binary file.

It would be really great to see an accepted and encouraged standard for 
plugging copyright information into HTTP response headers, so that 
browsers, CMSs, and other apps could discover it without having to hunt 
for a reference on a different page. Has anyone ever seen a 
"License-type:" or "Copyright:" header?

Like P3P (http://www.w3.org/P3P/ ), headers could be generated 
dynamically for each file on a site, or point to a static XML document 
in a well-known location that assigns different policies to different 
directories.

I sincerely hope for the day when there's a preference in my browser to 
ignore "all rights reserved" materials and only display open content, in 
the same way that IE6 allows users to ignore cookies from sites without 
a machine-readable privacy policy.

        chris.



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