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> officially launching the PDM tomorrow - as per the press release
> http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/23755 ) CC were debating
> whether to use a logo that was "C-with-a-line-through-it" or the letters
> "PD". The concern about the former was that it could potentially look like
> an "anti-copyright" logo which is not the message that CC wants to send
> out.
> But, they ended up choosing it largely because Wikimedia has already made
> the image recognisable through templates like "PD-old"
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-old-75 So, we were involved
> in
> the creation of this Mark even though we didn't know it :-)
>

That was the main thing, though we also encountered a criticism that also
cropped up in the development of public domain iconography at Wikimedia --
see comments on
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PD-icon.png#filehistory :-/


> Not being a techie I'm not sure what would be required, if anything at all,
> but how difficult would it be for us to implement the machine-readable
> information provided by the PDM into commons so that our PD content is made
> findable by this schema?
>

 Probably 80/20 is including PDM link. Beyond that may require code (PHP,
not wikitext). But you should discuss with CC's CTO Nathan Yergler, who is
at your event.


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