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Creative Commons license deeds will display information about the referring work if available. This page documents what information is displayed by the deeds.
 
Creative Commons license deeds will display information about the referring work if available. This page documents what information is displayed by the deeds.
  
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To see the examples, visit the work pages (listed here) and click through to the deed.
  
 
* http://labs.creativecommons.org/~nathan/tests/pdm/monalisa.html Public Domain Mark with use guidelines
 
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== Consumed Metadata ==
 
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* dct:publisher, dct:creator
 
* dct:publisher, dct:creator
 
* Registration metadata; see [http://labs.creativecommons.org/~nathan/oscri/describing-registrations.html Describing Work Registrations] for details.
 
* Registration metadata; see [http://labs.creativecommons.org/~nathan/oscri/describing-registrations.html Describing Work Registrations] for details.
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Revision as of 00:37, 10 December 2010

Creative Commons license deeds will display information about the referring work if available. This page documents what information is displayed by the deeds.

How it Works

When you visit a CC legal deed by clicking on a link from a licensed work, CC looks at the page you came from (the referrer) to see if it contains information about the licensed work. This information can include how the creator wants to be attributed, who identified a work as in the public domain, etc. If present, this information is displayed for the user, and used to generate copy and paste attribution/citation HTML.

Limitations

Works that require a password to access them can not be checked by the server software.

If the referring page contains multiple works under the same license (even with properly scoped metadata), we can not determine which link was clicked on. In that situation, we err on the side of certainty and do not display the information.

If the software can not unambiguously determine the title or attribution information, we err on the side of certainty and do not display the information.

Examples

We are currently developing comprehensive examples which will supersede these; these examples are likely to go away, break, or be otherwise changed at some point in the future.

To see the examples, visit the work pages (listed here) and click through to the deed.

Consumed Metadata

Namespaces:

  • xhtml
  • cc
  • dct
  • dc
  • sioc