CC+ is basically a Creative Commons way of saying "if you want extra permission beyond those granted in this license, contact me [or some third party] to arrange that". It is mostly talked about in the context of using a NC license and then using CC+ for anyone who wants to get permission for commercial use.
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus
However it also seems to make sense even for Commons which only allows CC-BY and CC-BY-SA. A lot of people have personal "contact me for X" statements where X could be a freer license, higher-res image, whatever else.
We could start using CC+ as the framework for that today, as seen by the simplest example http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus#Easy_CC.2B_Markups (the main gist of it seems to be special attributes in the <a> html tag)
So the question is not should we allow it (we have no reason not to), but - should we actively encourage people to use it, instead of personal "contact me for X" statements?
Basically the only point of using CC+ instead of personal statements is because CC+ is intended to be a standard. This is not an issue where the benefits of standardisation are hugely obvious to me, so I am not too fussed about this, but maybe some people have strong feelings about it.
If you use a personal contact statement, is there any reason you wouldn't switch to a standardised CC+ statement with an equivalent statement?
cheers, Brianna user:pfctdayelise
On 31/12/2007, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
So the question is not should we allow it (we have no reason not to), but
- should we actively encourage people to use it, instead of personal
"contact me for X" statements? Basically the only point of using CC+ instead of personal statements is because CC+ is intended to be a standard. This is not an issue where the benefits of standardisation are hugely obvious to me, so I am not too fussed about this, but maybe some people have strong feelings about it. If you use a personal contact statement, is there any reason you wouldn't switch to a standardised CC+ statement with an equivalent statement?
I can see the point in making it available to people, to increase awareness that they can in fact do it that way.
- d.
On 31/12/2007, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
If you use a personal contact statement, is there any reason you wouldn't switch to a standardised CC+ statement with an equivalent statement?
It results in a loss of control and people with such statements probably want control. If there was a need for standardization it would be fairly trivial for wikimedia commons to produce a standard set of notices that would have the benefit of more closely matching our needs.
Brianna Laugher wrote:
So the question is not should we allow it (we have no reason not to), but
- should we actively encourage people to use it, instead of personal
"contact me for X" statements?
Basically the only point of using CC+ instead of personal statements is because CC+ is intended to be a standard. This is not an issue where the benefits of standardisation are hugely obvious to me, so I am not too fussed about this, but maybe some people have strong feelings about it.
If you use a personal contact statement, is there any reason you wouldn't switch to a standardised CC+ statement with an equivalent statement?
cheers, Brianna user:pfctdayelise
Standarising with a template? Ok. Using that image? No. Using rel="cc:morePermissions" ? Maybe, but you'd need an extension just to add that, plus if it's only listing an email it's useless. We don't have personal statements to add with it. There would be a point in tagging GFDL as cc:morePermissions, but IMHO may seem that GFDL is "less important" that the CC one.
Proposals: a) Create template: "If this set of permissions doesn't fit your needs, [[contact me]]..." which also means that the uploader is willing to atend such requests. b) Start discussion about using CC metadata. It also involves technical difficulties in doing so without killing the servers or being killed by domas ;-)