> However, an alternative is to make embedded metadata less machine > readable. The "Copyright" field could include a sentence along the > lines of those discussed on this list long ago, like > > Copyright 2006 Joe Smith licensed to the public under > http://creativecomons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ verify at > http://example.com/mypcituressuck.html > > And any program that wants to make sense of that (and in other > languages) is more than welcome to. And someone can leave out any part > if they so wish. >
Its probably worth noting that this was our MP3 embedding scheme for a while, back when we only used the TCOP ID3 tag for the copyright statement. Assuming you make it a "specification" (i.e., this is the text you use, these parts are optional), we were able to split out the bits we were interested in with tools like ccLookup just fine. It's worth noting that the EXIF 2.2 spec gives specific format information for the copyright field, and it looks somewhat similar to what Mike quoted above. Perhaps using what they suggest, with the license/metadata URI appended? See page 29 of the spec (http://exif.org/specifications.html). -- Nathan R. Yergler Senior Software Engineer Creative Commons http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:NathanYergler _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
