Well... I think we atleast want to confront people on the issue of their liscensing of their content, and highly suggest they use creative commons liscense.
We could add Liscensing meta information - dont htink this is to hard, Creative Commons already has instructions for how to do this on their site. Anyone up for researching what it would take to do this? Also a reminder. Discussions -> the mailing list Proposoals -> the wikki -Zack On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Joshua Koenig wrote: > > My choice is to require all people who sign up using our code to > > concede all > > rights to their material to a Creative Commons share alike attribution > > liscense. (or they we could give htem a couple other options for > > different CC > > liscenses). > > I think we want to stay clear of -forcing- people to licence their > content in a particular way. However, I do think we can "highly > recommend" a particular licence, as well as making it the default (and > opt-out situation). We also must explain to people why we are doing > this; most normal folks don't understand copyright issues. > > Perhaps licencing information needs to be a part of our RSS > syndication? E.g. Should some Site decide not to release their content > as CC (for whatever reason) such content would be flagged and far less > likely to be syndicated. People need to be free to shoot themselves in > the foot from time to time. > > - Josh > > > ------------------------ > Politics is the art of controlling your environment. Participate! > Elect Howard Dean President in 2004! > http://www.outlandishjosh.com/politics/dean/ >
