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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: lucas AT gonze.com, discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-metadata] non-web embedding revisited
  • Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:22:39 -0800

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 12:04 -1000, Lucas Gonze wrote:
> I'd like to suggest an alternative (complementary, not exclusive) approach
> -- embed a unique and canonical ID (preferably a URL) and do the license
> hacking via web tools which annotate that ID. This moves as much
> functionality as possible out of media file formats, which are an endless
> nightmare, and allows third parties to to create lookup infrastructure in
> a decentralized way.

That's the intention of the field "pointing to a web page describing
a file". I'd love to remove all other embedded metadata completely and
I'd be happy for people to ignore all other embedded metadata, but not
encouraging an embedded license hint unfortunately will not fly.

--
Mike Linksvayer
http://creativecommons.org/about/people#21





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