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[Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Neeru Paharia <neeru AT creativecommons.org> writes to invite you to license 
your contents under the new Creative Commons lincenses soon so that you 
and your work can be featured in the big Creative Commons roll-out.

This is different from the previous CC mailings which were asking you to 
try out an comment -- This one is live, working, and is ready for you to 
take part in the grand announcement! If you want reliable licenses (and 
nice publicity for your content), sign up now! 

Paul

Details below for Neeru:
 
Dear Friends of Creative Commons,

We are quickly approaching our launch date and are moving forward with 
our integration plans. A key component of this effort is for us to load 
metadata about your content into our Featured Content Registry.  This 
way, when a user visits our site they can search our catalog and find a 
URL to your site, where they would find Creative Commons licensed 
content.  To get a better idea, you can visit the Featured Content 
Registry on our beta site at:
http://new.creativecommons.org/works/

The following instructions are *only* to get us your metadata.  They 
are not instructions to tag your work with a Creative Commons logo or 
URL.  That will happen later when the site is ready to go live in early 
December.   We would *really* appreciate if we could get this 
information from you as soon as possible so that we can be sure our 
site will be loaded with pointers to good content on the day of our 
launch in December.  The current deadline for getting us the metadata 
needed to profile your work in our Featured Content Registry is 
November 25th.  I really appreciate your help, and please let me know 
how I can help you get this information together.

Here are the basic steps:

Step 1: Identify works to be licensed with Creative Commons licenses

Step 2: Choose a specific license by walking through the license 
application at  http://new.creativecommons.org/license/ or by referring 
to the list of licenses at the bottom of this email.

Step 3: Please collect the following eight attributes about each work :

1) title: title of the work
2) creator: the full name of the creator
3) copyright_holder: the full name of the copyright holder
4) copyright_date: the copyright date
5) description: a textual description of the work
6) format: the format of the work (image, text, audio, video)
7) URL: the URL where the work is to be found
8) license_names: license name(by,sa,by-sa,etc..) under which you want 
to license the work, abbreviations or full names (get this from step 2)

Step 4: Send us the information. I've included an Excel spreadsheet 
with the 8 attributes for you to fill in.  If you are exporting 
metadata from an database we can also take the data as comma separated 
values.

SPECIAL NOTES:

license_names: Here are the 11 license possibilities, both full names 
and abbreviations.

   by: attribution
   by-nd: attribution, no derivative works
   by-nd-nc: attribution, no derivative works, noncommercial
   by-nc: attribution, noncommercial
   by-nc-sa: attribution, noncommercial, share alike
   by-sa: attribution, share alike
   nd: no derivative works
   nd-nc: no derivative works, noncommercial
   nc: noncommercial
   nc-sa: noncommercial, share alike
   sa: share alike

Note:

At some point you will have to make sure all works have the URL of the 
license or the Creative Commons logo prominently placed near the work 
on your site, but don't worry about this now -- we'll take care of it 
later.

We're almost there!  Please let us know how we can help you help us get 
our Registry full of your great content in time for our launch.  Thanks.


Neeru Paharia

Assistant Director
Creative Commons
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305

650.724.3717
creativecommons.org