CC REL

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Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL) is a specification describing how license information may be described using RDF and how license information may be attached to works.

ccREL is described in ccREL: The Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (pdf), published March 3, 2008. An overview of the vocabulary is available with the namespace description.

ccREL metadata, as encoded using RDFa or XMP, may be embedded in a variety of filetypes. Additional confidence may be added to embedded metadata through the use of web statement.

We have also begun to explore extending ccREL for use by digital copyright registries. See CC Network Development's metadata documentation.

Presentations

Examples

Simple

My Book by Jon Phillips is licensed under a 

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative Commons 
Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 License</a>. 

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at 
<a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" rel="cc:morePermissions" 
href="http://somecompany.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">somecompany.com</a>.

Advanced

<span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

<span rel="dc:type" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title">My Book</span> by 
<a rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName" href="http://rejon.org/my_book">Jon Phillips</a> 

is licensed under a 

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative Commons 
Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 License</a>. 

<span rel="dc:source" href="http://deerfang.org/her_book"/>
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at 
<a rel="cc:morePermissions" 
href="http://somecompany.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">somecompany.com</a>.

</span>

Examples of ccREL in the Wild

See Also


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