On 17/11/2007, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/11/2007, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/11/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/11/2007, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
However the problem still remains of how to pronounce this. ;) "CC urh". "CC slashed-oh." "CC empty set." "CC Close-mid front rounded vowel". Problematic indeed.
"CC-nothing."
(I am reminded of Uncyclopedia's "Licensed under absolutely nothing, have a f*cking field day" license.)
Heh.
More to the point however I wasn't aware that PD-US-GOV and PD due to age needed re-branding
If it means that specific metadata is developed so that license-sensitive search engines can recognise them, that seems like a good thing to me.
I've always wondered what the benefit of attaching Creative Commons branding to PD media is, but this reason seems pretty good. Isn't there an XML schema that can allow search engines to recognise copyright licensing without having to brand everything?