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Fred Benenson
Culture Program Associate
Tuesday, June 24 2008
fred@creativecommons.org

What is c?
 We’re a 501c3
 Non-profit
 Non-legal
 We offer free legal and technology tools
that allow creators to publish their works on
more flexible terms
 Terms that allow public sharing, reuse, and
remix.

Why?

To resolve a tension.

Terms May Permit Less

The Tension in Digital Media
 Technology has changed the way
creative works are made, distributed,
and used.
 Thenature of digital computer implicates
the right to copy.
 Cheap easy software further implicates
the right to make derivative works.

What If?

You want to:
 Share?
 Remix?
 Build Upon?
 Comment?
 Translate?

Then You Have To
ASK
(and hire a lawyer)

What if?

You could give permission
before to say

Enter …

Attribution

ShareAlike

NoDerivatives

NonCommercial

Three Different Formats

RDFa
 Allowsbuilding metadata into XHTML
and other XML documents with attributes.
 <arel=\"license\" href=\"http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
3.0/\">cc</a>
 <a about=\"/bar.jpg\" rel=\"license\"
href=\"http://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-nc/3.0/\">cc</a>

ccREL
 ccRELis described in ccREL: The
Creative Commons Rights Expression
Language (pdf), published March 3,
2008.
 ccREL a specification describing how
license information may be described
using RDF and how license information
may be attached to works.

XMP
 XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform)
facilitates embedding metadata in files
using a subset of RDF.
 XMP supports embedding metadata in
PDF and many image formats, though
it is designed to support nearly any file
type.

Liblicense
 liblicense
provides a straight-forward
way for developers to build license-
aware applications.
 Reads license metadata
 If possible, writes license metadata
 GUI independent

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