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Creative Commons for Googlers

Mike Linksvayer, <ml@creativecommons.org>


This presenation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.

A recording of this presentation is available at Google Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9214789446321452386

B to Y; A to Z; G

Blogger to YouTube
Analytics to Zeitgeist
Meta, A-Z doesn't work for this presentation unless I'm missing some Google products!
Google

Overly restrictive copyright potentially impacts every Google business. Creative Commons is part of solution. Wanna work together?

Purpose of this talk

Stimulate thought and innovation ... feedback ... implemenations

Inspiration would be a happy coincidence, because ...

The Inspirer

<Berlin>

Get Creative

Wanna Work Together?

The new CC cartoon, first seen here!

<CHUM>

Thinking about CC

In terms of...

Creative Commons & FLOSS

Media 20 years behind software?

Code & media licenses

2011

2016

Reuse: Code vs. Content

Interoperability

</CHUM>

~ Legal stuff

Very cool stuff

Per Glenn's request:

More cool stuff

December 2002

Someone will build a CC search engine!

CC-enabled Web Search

CC Search Now

Metadata

RDF/XML-in-HTML-comments

Ugly, ugly, ugly

Microformats

rel="license" microformat

Example: 


This work is licensed under Creative Commons
<a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/">Attribution</a>

Indicates we're not just linking to the license because it's a cool link.

See http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-license

Wanted: Metadata solution

RDFa

See http://rdfa.info

RDFa example


This work is licensed under Creative Commons
<a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/">Attribution</a>

Hmmm, looks like the rel="license" microformat example.

Produces one triple:


<> license <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/> .

Which says the current document is licennsed under CC BY 2.5.

Bigger RDFa example


<span about="http://example.org/foo.jpg">
<span rel="dc:type" property="dc:title"
href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage">Foo
Captured</span> by
<a rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName"
href="http://bobhome.example.org">Bob</span>
is licensed under Creative Commons
<a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/">Attribution</a>
</span>

Produces triples:


<http://example.org/foo.jpg>
  dc:type <http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage> ;
  dc:title "Foo Captured" ;
  cc:attributionURL <http://bobhome.example.org> ;
  cc:attributionName "Bob" ;
  license <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/> .

Which says http://example.org/foo.jpg document is an image titled "Foo Captured" licensed under CC BY 2.5 and must be attributed to "Bob" with a link to http://bobhome.example.org.

Super-duper short explanation of RDF

One can say lots of things with these primitives.

And do things with what is said.

Super short explanation of RDFa

Ben's case for RDFa

See "Bulding Interoperable Metadata" at http://ben.adida.net/presentations/

Fun SemWeb Analogy

Java Applets : Java-as-COBOL :: SemWeb vision, 2001 : SemWeb technologies integrating heterogenous enterprise data

Microformats are worse?

Potential media-info microformat

Imaginary media-info microformat example


<div class="mediainfo">
  <img class="media" src="http://example.org/foo.jpg">
  <div class="creator vcard">
    <span class="fn">Bob</span>
  </div>
  <a rel="license"
  href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/">CC BY</a>
</div>

Purple is a fib, does not exist, even as a brainstorm! An eventual media-info microformat may look nothing like this.

lowercase and officious SW interoperability

CC wants implementation

Google has chickens and eggs

Wanted:

Embedded metadata

Non-crappy standard: XMP

Embedded trust

CC and embedded metadata

If it sucks, why do we care?

Beyond

... mere license metadata

Attribution

Commerce and nearby

Want to

Magnatune

Jamendo

Derivatives

"Who remixed me?" as the new "who linked to me?"

link:http://...

source:http://...

ccMixter / ccHost


Steal these concepts!

Syndication

Can annotate RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 1.0 with CC licenses.

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Syndication

Just do it

FLOSS code wanted

CC features in

And just make FLOSS media tools better

http://developer.creativecommons.org

Summer of Code

THANK YOU!

Chris DiBona & co. rocks!

$upport CC

http://creativecommons.org/support