discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

["Glenn Otis Brown" <glenn AT creativecommons.org>]

>IANAL, but AFAICT including license RDF is neither necessary nor 
sufficient to satisfy license terms -- a licensee must include a copy of 
the license or the URL for it.

that's right, mike.

note that when you use a some rights reserved button from our site to
link back to the license, it automatically includes RDF in your site. 

(if you copy the button from the licensor -- by viewing their source --
then you should take care to copy their RDF as well as their HTML).

--g.


> >      I am in the middle of converting my web space, so that the content 
> > is governed by Creative Commons attribution licenses.  I wonder how 
> > folks who have done this already are handling the following:
> 
> If I understand your questions below, they would not apply to you unless 
> your web space includes content that you've licensed from others under a 
> CC license.
> 
> You may do what you will with your own content, though of course we 
> recommend that you link to your license's URL using the "some rights 
> reserved" or "no rights reserved" icons as appropriate and text which as 
> clearly as possible denotes the content being licensed as well as 
> including RDF describing the work and license.
> 
> >      My understanding is that all licenses require the licensee to 
> > include a copy of the license, or the URL for it, along with any public 
> > use of the licensed work.
> > 
> >      Does this mean they must also include the RDF fragment?
> 
> IANAL, but AFAICT including license RDF is neither necessary nor 
> sufficient to satisfy license terms -- a licensee must include a copy of 
> the license or the URL for it.
> 
> You should include the RDF anyway. :)
> 
> >      And how are people facilitating this requirement?  Do you provide a 
> > page on how potential users might do this?  Do you include the HTML and 
> > RDF fragments in a ZIP (or whatever) archive?  Do you ask potential 
> > users to contact you for help?  Or just assume that they can deal with it?
> 
> We don't AFAIK have specific examples for licensees, though that's a 
> great idea.  Instructions for licensees would be very similar to 
> instructions for licensors at 
> <http://creativecommons.org/learn/technology/usingmarkup>.
> 
> Kick me if I didn't get the gist of your questions...
> 
> -- 
>    Mike Linksvayer
>    http://creativecommons.org/learn/aboutus/people#21
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Glenn Otis Brown
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