discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

The CC 2.0 licenses released over a year ago offer some flexibility in 
requesting specific attribution or waiving attribution.  See 
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/4216

There's also a draft of a "wiki" license (not really specific to wikis 
at all) with lots of discussion on cc-licenses in March and April, 
starting at about 
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2005-March/thread.html#2015

A future version of CC licenses may include something like the 
attribution tweak contained in the "wiki" which basically allows 
attribution to be required for a publisher rather than for authors.

There is some desire to specify attribution required for a work in work 
metadata, something like

...
 <cc:Work about="">
  <cc:license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"/>
  <cc:attribution ... >
   ...
  </cc:attribution>
 </cc:Work>
...

cc:attribution is just a placeholder for something that should be able 
to express:

- attribution is waived
- attribution must include URL x
- attribution must include the name of entity y

Any ideas, sketches, pointers to similar usage, etc?

One problem or opportunity is that all of the above expressions apart 
from 'waived' may already be present in work metadata, perhaps as 
dc:creator or dc:publisher.  I wonder if there's any (non confusing) way 
these can be leveraged?

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  Mike Linksvayer
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