Difference between revisions of "Write a custom Creative Commons license-aware search engine"
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[[Image:http://picturesandbox.com/images/CC-select-list.gif]] | [[Image:http://picturesandbox.com/images/CC-select-list.gif]] | ||
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| + | As of June 29, Flickr has temporarily suspended the API key pending further clarifications of CC-related topics. Such as the following: | ||
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| + | regarding Creative Commons topics raised in this Flickr Forum thread (750+ | ||
| + | posts in 4 days) | ||
| + | http://flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/44325/ | ||
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| + | A few salient Creative Commons topics excerpted from the thread: | ||
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| + | - 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? | ||
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| + | - 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 | ||
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| + | - 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 | ||
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| + | - 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 | ||
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| + | 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). | ||
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| + | - 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) | ||
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| + | - 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? | ||
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| + | related: if PictureSandbox just witnesses the license between the licensor | ||
| + | and licensee, is PictureSandbox a party to the license? | ||
== TODO == | == TODO == | ||
* feature requests for cc/nutch | * feature requests for cc/nutch | ||
Revision as of 19:23, 2 July 2007
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 search.creativecommons.org. Help improve this search engine at its 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
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
