discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Glenn Otis Brown wrote:
> 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

We can specify that an individual object is under a certain license, and 
we can make such assertions about an arbitrary number of objects, one at 
a time.  That's all we can do, hence the request for a way to say in 
machine readable format "everything on this site is licensed".

What we do now via http://creativecommons.org/license/ is give people 
metadata that says the current URI is licensed, so any page rendered by 
a template that includes the metadata we hand out says in a machine 
readable format that it is licensed.  Fortunately that works for many cases.

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