discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

tom poe wrote:
> An Independent Artist creates a song file, and, say it's an mp3 file. 
> She licenses it with the Creative Commons Project.  The code, the
> license information is posted to her web site.  She then uploads it to a
> reputable repository such as www.archive.org .  Now, she can alert
> everyone as to her intentions by listing those songs she wants on the
> Internet.  Along with that, is a request for her fans to alert her if
> they come across songs that are not on her "approved for Internet
> posting" list of material.  A rough and ready protocol, that relies on
> an infrastructure/architecture that is facilitated immensely by the
> wonderful work of the Creative Commons Project.

I do strongly suggest taking advantage of the 
free-as-in-someone-else-is-paying-for-it hosting, bandwidth, and 
curation offered by http://archive.org and similar.  Most importantly 
for this discussion is curation -- if it turns out a work shouldn't have 
been uploaded, the Archive is responsible for removing it.

Note that archive.org also publishes verification metadata as specified 
by <http://creativecommons.org/technology/embedding> and 
<http://creativecommons.org/technology/nonweb>, though mp3 and ogg files 
hosted there don't actually have license claims embedded yet -- soon, 
long time coming.  Not that anyone uploading content to archive.org has 
to worry about any of this.

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  Mike Linksvayer
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