Re: [WSG] Creative Commons
Designer wrote: What are your views on a 'Creative Commons' license? [ www.creativecommons.org ] They're very good licences. Seems a reasonable idea to me, though I don't really grasp the full implications of rdf data yet. Don't use the RDF nonsense they propose for use within (X)HTML that is actually hidden within a comment. If you're going to embed it in the file, it needs to be done properly in an XML document and cannot be done for HTML or XHTML served as text/html. You could, however, put in in a separate XML file (without surrounding it in a comment) and link to it. link rel=license type=application/rdf+xml href=cc.rdf (note the US spelling of license, instead of licence) I presume that one could use this approach to protect one's designs? Anyone done it? Any pitfalls? Many people have used the licence for many things and if you're interested in a fairer and far less strict licence than that imposed by regular copyright laws, then go for it. Any standards issues? Beyond the use of RDF or other markup to declare it, it really has nothing to do with web standards. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Creative Commons
Carl Reynolds wrote: Designer wrote: What are your views on a 'Creative Commons' license? [ www.creativecommons.org ] I believe that the creative commons license has been shown not to be worth the bits used to create it. There is a loop-hole in the license that allows anyone to copy any work you publish without requiring your permission or needing to pay any kind of royalty. Can you provide a reference to back up this claim? -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Creative Commons
Lachlan Hunt wrote: Don't use the RDF nonsense they propose for use within (X)HTML that is actually hidden within a comment. If you're going to embed it in the file, it needs to be done properly in an XML document and cannot be done for HTML or XHTML served as text/html. You could, however, put in in a separate XML file (without surrounding it in a comment) and link to it. link rel=license type=application/rdf+xml href=cc.rdf Thanks Lachlan - useful info. I've done a link! -- Best Regards, Bob McClelland Cornwall (UK) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
RE: [WSG] Creative Commons
hi all - I believe that the creative commons license has been shown not to be worth the bits used to create it. There is a loop-hole in the license that allows anyone to copy any work you publish without requiring your permission or needing to pay any kind of royalty. Creative Commons is more about free access and distribution of your work than royalties. Copyright deals with royalty payments and with both the US and now Australian laws, the copyright on a work lasts for 70 years (to put simply, although that's only a component of it). Creators (musicians, artists and the like) are becoming increasingly interested in creative commons as it provides a means for distribution and access of creative work, while still acknowledging who made it in the first place. Many creators are interested in just getting their stuff out there rather than earning adequate money for what they do. (If anyone is trying to survive off money earnt from creative work alone, then they'll know it's a hard call these days.) So, creative commons provides a means of acknowledging the creator and letting other people *use* your stuff. Sampling, remixing, etc is given legal status with CC - letting people focus on the creating rather than the laws - such as the ccMixter project on the creative commons site. People have borrowed and sampled throughout history, but is very much apparent in our current day and age. Anyhow, it's worth reading the page on the various licences available through Creative Commons. See: http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ That's a bit of a rant, but it's worth checking it out further if you're interested. Thanks Somaya _ Somaya Langley Digital Preservation Manager (Acting) National Library of Australia Parkes Place Parkes Canberra ACT 2600 ph +61 2 6262 1366 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.musicaustralia.org http://www.nla.gov.au ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
