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  • From: pinna <pinna AT autistici.org>
  • To: discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: taggers
  • Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:02:18 +0200

Ryan Shaw wrote:
Lucas Gonze wrote:

It strikes me that it would be very convenient to have CC tagging incorporated in the standard tagging tools. id3tag, mpginfo, etc.


This reminds me of something I've been wondering about. Suppose the
tools you mentioned are updated to include CC metadata writing support.
It becomes very simple for anyone to CC-tag MP3s. Now suppose some
dishonest people start tagging MP3s in which they don't own the
copyright with CC metadata pointing to false license info pages (hosted
some lawless place alongside online casinos and porn sites). These MP3s
are then released onto P2P networks, blogged, etc. Is there any way a
search agent can distinguish these falsely CC-licensed files from
actually CC-licensed files?


maybe a comparison with free software would be useful. when you download free software sources, you also get a license that says "you're free to ... etc etc".
but if you download sources from a unofficial, unknown mirror, you may get bad sources, weird licenses and so on. e.g.: you may download a proprietary software with a license that says "this is free software".
instead, if you download sources from a official, well-known mirror, you're quite sure you're downloading good sources and a license you can trust to.
a search agent could state "you can trust this license" if the metadata point to an official license info website (or mirror) only.

however, unfortunately i have not examined cclicenselib, so i apologize if i misunderstood the meaning of "license info pages".

bye
pinna





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