I'll poke around a little bit at this myself. I think the issue of putting licensing meta info into RSS is actually something that is going to end up being a key issue for RSS as we move forward. For an interesting discussion of this, take a look at
Winer forbids using RSS? : http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=8871 I think it also raises more issues that people have to think about in terms of CC licensing, but we probably should save that for places like Lessig's blog. Aldon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of zachary rosen Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:58 PM To: Aldon Hynes Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [hackers] How should we be enforcing Creative Commons liscenses? Yes - good points. I would be fine with allowing an op out. But this means we MUST put liscensing meta info into all the data. I can do some research into what this will take, help would be appriciated. -Zack On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Aldon Hynes wrote: > I feel strongly that this is a bad way to go. While I support Creative > Commons licensing in general, making it a requirement may prohibit many of > us from being able to fully participate. > > As an example, when I have published articles for academic journals, I have > been required to hand over certain rights to the academic journals. > Requiring Creative Commons licensing would mean that I could not contribute > my articles to the site. Friends of mine are journalists, and I am > concerned about them being likewise restricted in what they can contribute. > > When it comes to graphics design, I believe there are similar issues. This > was recently discussed in comments in the blogforamerica, but I don't know > the details. > > I like the proposal that I believe AMStanton suggested during the IRC > meeteing that we default to Creative Commons licensing, and personally, I > like the Attribution-ShareAlike License best, but that we allow users to > opt-out. > > MHO > > Aldon > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of zrosen > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 1:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [hackers] How should we be enforcing Creative Commons > liscenses? > > > 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). > > What do you guys thing? > > List other scenarios on the wikki and bring it to the list. > > http://www.hack4dean.org/phpwiki/index.php?CreativeCommonsControl > > -Zack > >
