[Commons-l] Should we use CC-Plus? (CC+)

[Brianna Laugher]

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

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