Write a custom Creative Commons license-aware search engine

2007-07-02T18:23:53Z

Augustine Fou: /* Implementations */

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You'd have to work at a commercial search engine to tackle the previous challenge. However, an individual or small team could build a search engine exclusively for Creative Commons-licensed content, much as several have been built exclusively for searching blogs.

== Implementations ==

* Prototype up at [http://search.creativecommons.org/ search.creativecommons.org]. Help improve this search engine at its [http://cctools.sourceforge.net/ sourceforge project].
* Please add your implementation here :)

PictureSandbox.com
- search by any 1 of the 6 CC license types using a select list -- the default is Attribution

[[Image:http://picturesandbox.com/images/CC-select-list.gif]]

As of June 29, Flickr has temporarily suspended the API key pending further clarifications of CC-related topics. Such as the following:

regarding Creative Commons topics raised in this Flickr Forum thread (750+
posts in 4 days)
http://flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/44325/

A few salient Creative Commons topics excerpted from the thread:

- since Flickr does not allow photo-specific CC version specification (just
1 of the 6 license-types, not version), how does a Flickr user specify a
version they want to apply to a specific photo; how does a user prevent
Flickr from automatically upgrading the CC version without their consent?

- whether PictureSandbox is a licensee of the photo in the case where the
photo appears as a thumbnail in search results presented on the
PictureSandbox website (which uses the Flickr API to return such results),
even if just for a moment

- whether PictureSandbox overlaying a watermark in search results (which
says (CC) image owner's name) constitutes a "derivative work" and therefore
"use" of the photo

- whether PictureSandbox is the licensee in the case where a user uses the
"phreetings" (photo + greeting) interface on the PictureSandbox website (
http://www.picturesandbox.com/card ) to create a phreeting and send it to a
friend, or whether the user is the licensee of the photo

related: whether PictureSandbox's "phreetings" constitutes commercial use if
the business is commercial but the phreetings feature carries no ads, does
not drive traffic (since it is a private, person-to-person communication).

- whether PictureSandbox is responsible for policing the contents of a
CC-licensed image to ensure it does not contain someone else's copyrighted
work (i.e. someone stealing someone else's photo and uploading to Flickr,
and applying a CC license to it)

- can PictureSandbox witness/notarize a Creative Commons license between
image owner (the licensor) and the user (the Licensee) when the image owner
is not made aware of this?

related: if PictureSandbox just witnesses the license between the licensor
and licensee, is PictureSandbox a party to the license?

== TODO ==

* feature requests for cc/nutch

Write a custom Creative Commons license-aware search engine

2007-07-02T18:20:48Z

Augustine Fou: /* Examples */

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Write a custom Creative Commons license-aware search engine

Write a custom Creative Commons license-aware search engine