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=== Limit Browsing to CC Licensed Content ===
 
=== Limit Browsing to CC Licensed Content ===
  
This could be based upon tag, internal marking of licensing, and or any way a project sees fit to limit browsing possibly in connection with search.
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Revision as of 18:54, 17 April 2007


This is a page describing "everything" a media hosting site could do to integrate CC and CC-related features.

Also install and see the ccHost software which implements many of these wishes as best practices.


Choose license

Default License

There should be a default license to govern all content that is project-wide. For websites, this involves adding a license with proper marking somewhere on the site and using this as the default for all other selections when applicable (feeds, default for user-generated-content, etc). Sites like Technorati have licensed all content on their site under a specific license and note this at the bottom of their website on every page.

Individual Licenses

After a default license is applied on a project, then consider making an atomic approach to licensing where individual pieces of media have licenses applied both with physical marking and in technology, such as in Syndication.

User Preference

Users should also be given the preference to set their default license and/or set the license per media item. And, all technologies should adapt to this user selection as with Syndication. For example, Flickr allows users to select a license for uploaded photos as time of upload, but also have default license which is selected to reduce the amount of work a user must undertake for this task.

User Interface

Default

The default approach for marking a licensed piece of content is demonstrated on our license page.

Dropdown

A drop-down list for selecting licenses seems to be quite effective. See how this is done on Flickr and others sites.

API

There should be a licensing API that might be part of a restful api that allows querying of the site, and outputting of possibly Syndication with proper license attribution, etc. There are other ways an API could specify license as well.


Publish License on the Web

Link to License

The best way to show a license use is to link to the full URL back to the CC license. See the license page for how this is done.

Use RDFa

RDFa is RDF in attributes and CC current recommendation for exhibiting semantic relationships for search engines and other machines to understand content relationships. See examples of this on http://labs.creativecommons.org


Search

Commercial Use

Search by "Allows Commerical Use" A great example of this is on the http://www.google.com/advanced_search and http://search.yahoo.com/search/options

Remix

Search by "Allows Remix" See the examples in #Commercial Use Also, a great example is http://spinxpress.com/getmedia

Specific License

Search by specific licenses by name, such as Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany. A great example of this is on http://spinxpress.com/getmedia

Use OpenSearch

We recommend the usage of the OpenSearch standard for empowering searching of content in an open manner with proper licensing.

Browse

CC Portal (Channel) on Site

Create a channel on your project for all the CC licensed content. A great example is http://www.getdemocracy.com/ player.

Limit Browsing to CC Licensed Content

This could be based upon tag, internal marking of licensing, and or any way a project sees fit to limit browsing possibly in connection with #Search.

Feeds

CC annotations

Feed URLs Facilitating CC Restrictions

(give some options)

Embed WebStatement

ID3

XMP

Publish client-verifiable ID on web

Hash

Authority Lookup

[Re]use tracking

link: search

Sample Pool API

.com integration