Write a custom Creative Commons license-aware search engine

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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

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

File: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
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