RE: copyright, Creative Commons, and DRM in Atom/RSS

[Bob Wyman]

John Panzer wrote: > an example of an obvious-to-the-practitioner-skilled-in-the-art indicator of a CC license for Atom: > <link rel="license" href="" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" /> > which of course also extends to whatever other license schemes someone might come up with, as >  long as they have URIs.             As John indicates, his encoding method is “obvious”… However, what is apparently *not* obvious to many people is that you can’t “enforce” a Creative Commons license if enforcement involves restricting access to or use of data. Because this point is a bit subtle, we’re likely to have all sorts of people thinking that providing support for Creative Commons does, in fact, give them the ability to restrict the use of their data…               bob wyman