Creative Commons

["Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>]

from the site [1] :

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On December 16, 2002, Creative Commons released version 1.0 of its Licensing
Project, and the first release of content under its Founders' Copyright.
These are the first two projects in a series that Creative Commons will
launch, all designed to help expand the amount of intellectual work, whether
owned or free, available for creative re-use.

The Licensing Project will build licenses that will help you tell others
that your works are free for copying and other uses ? but only on certain
conditions. You're probably familiar with the phrase "All rights reserved"
and the little © that goes along with it. Creative Commons wants to help
copyright holders send a different message: "Some rights reserved" and our
"CC Creative Commons" logo.
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The system is very easy to use, and metadata is provided for use with your
work. There is some pretty good documentation for the metadata model [2].
Being RDF, the CC metadata can be used effectively out of the box within RSS
1.0, and Ben Hammersley has kindly written up a module including examples of
its use [3].


[1] http://www.creativecommons.org/
[2] http://creativecommons.org/learn/technology/metadata/
[3] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/files/Modules/Proposed/mod_cc.html




(I've no personal connection with the project, but do think it's an
important development)
Cheers,
Danny.


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