discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Andy Powell wrote:
> (Note, the DCMI proposed recommendation for DC in XHTML (URL below)
> recommends using DC.rights rather than DC.Rights as the value of the
> name attribute).

http://creativecommons.org/technology/metadata/extend updated accordingly.

> Yes, but if the requirement is as simple as
>
>  <meta name="DC.rights"
>        content="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/"; />
>
> and/or
>
>  <meta name="DC.rights"
>        scheme="DCTERMS.URI"
>        content="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/"; />
>
> then I don't think that anything needs adding.

I agree.

> If people agree that this
> use of the meta tag is useful, then it would be nice to add these to the
> examples in that document - but I imagine that it is now pretty close to
> closing the call for comments so I'll have to get my skates on! (I am the
> author of that document BTW).

Would anyone on this list add meta tags referring to CC licenses to 
their web pages?  If so, what motivates you?  I'm quite interested to know.

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