discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Glenn Otis Brown <glenn AT creativecommons.org>]

wow this would be great to resolve -- and to resolve in the opposite 
direction too: while we think of this problem can we think of a way to 
use the metadata to specify what objects are under a certain license? 
unless we've already done that unbeknownst to me


On Feb 9, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Mike Linksvayer wrote:

> X wrote to me:
> > The problem we're trying to get at here is this: there doesn't seem to
> > be an easy way for someone to specify (in a machine readable format)
> > that their entire site fall under a CC license.
> > The only way we've come up with is to have an RDF for each digital
> > object.  It can be embedded in the object itself or a set of them can 
> > be
> > gathered up somewhere on the site, but ultimately that's a lot of
> > overhead.
> > We've seen folks say "All content on this site is available under a
> > Creative Commons license."  There seems to be no way to say something
> > similar in a machine readable format.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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