On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 19:46 +0000, Oldak Quill wrote:
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."
"CC Zero" is how it has been discussed inside CC.
(I am reminded of Uncyclopedia's "Licensed under absolutely nothing, have a f*cking field day" license.)
Heh.
It looks like the uncyclopedia/open content version is at http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Template:NoLicense
Heh indeed. (But in all seriousness, I'd love to see a serious legal analysis of this and less humorous anti-copyright statements, probably dozens of which have been independently invented over the years, most recently seen at http://www.intellectualprivilege.com/blog/2007/11/uncopyright-notice.html)
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?
AFAIK the important thing for search engines is to link to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ possibly qualified by rel="license".
There's also metadata at that URL that would let a license aware tool autodiscover the characteristics of that "license". Non-CC licenses or public domain or "anti-copyright" thingies that have a canonical URL could publish such metadata.
Visual branding/naming doesn't matter at all *technically*.
The technical part of CC-Ø will define some additional optional metadata concerning how or who a work is dedicated or certified to be in the public domain or otherwise unencumbered, but there's nothing concrete yet.