discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

tom poe wrote:
> Hi:  I need to find out what is best way to include info for .ogg files
> and creative commons license when setting up rss feed for our music
> repository.  

See <http://creativecommons.org/learn/technology/usingmarkup> for 
instructions regarding CC license metadata in RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 feeds.

In either case you'll want to include a CC license for each item in the 
feed.

> The idea is that each listing should be forwarded to an rss feed app and
> available as a site for downloadable songs in .ogg file format and each
> song from the site will have registered with the Creative Commons
> Project.

You can't register a work with CC -- perhaps you mean that each song is 
available under a CC license?

> The first thought, is that the site is registered with the Creative
> Commons Project, and each song is registered by the creator of the song,
> so it wouldn't be necessary to include it in the rss feed.  But, maybe
> there's an easy way to include it, just to enhance exposure for the
> Creative Commons Project?

As above, nothing is registered with CC.  The creator of a work encoded 
in an audio file can embed a license claim in their audio file(s) 
following our guidelines 
<http://creativecommons.org/learn/technology/nonweb>.  We haven't 
published a recommendation for ogg files yet, but you could place the 
license claim statement outlined for the TCOP ID3 frame for MP3s 
<http://creativecommons.org/learn/technology/mp3> in the ogg's LICENSE 
comment.

The RSS feed should include licenses.  If all of the ogg files are 
available to the program that generates your RSS feed, it would be cool 
to generate license info in your RSS feed by reading and verifying the 
license info embedded in the ogg files as above.

Apologies for taking so long to reply.  Let me know if any of the above 
doesn't make sense, or doesn't work for you.

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  Mike Linksvayer
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