discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Chris Snyder wrote:
> Out of curiousity, why use cc for this, and not say dc:creator or even 
> mm:artistList (http://www.musicbrainz.org/MM/)?

As noted previously, CC does use dc:creator.

So does MusicBrainz actually.  Look at 
<http://www.musicbrainz.org/MM/mq_examples.html#artist>.  The things 
analogous to CC "Work" metadata are MM "Album" and MM "Track" metadata. 
 They both use

<dc:creator rdf:resource="{MB artist ID}" />

to reference the creator of a track or album.  MB would/does have the 
exact same issues concerning use of dc:creator vs. dc:contributor.

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