On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 20:18 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > > I'd recommend populating it with a URL referencing a page that contains > > a copyright notice for the embedded file. I link to a license is nearly > > worthless -- anyone can add such a link to any image and there is no > > telling who did it or whether the image is actually licensed. > > So I have to have personal web publishing capabilities if I want to > embed a license in a file,
Don't even think of it as "embedding a license" in a file. This is worthless for the reason noted above. > even one that (say) isn't public yet, or > which I currently choose to distribute by methods other than the web? You don't have to distribute the file via the web to publish a copyright notice on the web for the file in question. And "methods other than the web" are just the reason web notice is necessary. Anyone could embed a CC license link to any photo (or mp3, etc) and mail it to anyone. Is the recipient supposed to believe that the content is actually CC licensed? Why? A web notice gives one the level of assurance that one normally gets from the web ... as opposed to zero. > That seems incredibly onerous. It may be, but if I may repeat myself, embedding a reference to a license itself is incredibly worthless. Note that if one really wants to locally reference a specific license one could use XMP or better yet completely filetype agnostic external metadata. -- http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:Mike_Linksvayer _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
