We, W3C Member Creative Commons, hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification, comprising the following document(s) attached hereto:
which collectively are referred to as "the Submission". We request the Submission be known as the ccREL Submission.
This paper introduces the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL), the standard recommended by Creative Commons (CC) for machine-readable expression of copyright licensing terms and related information. ccREL and its description in this paper supersede all previous Creative Commons recommendations for expressing licensing metadata. Like CC's previous recommendation, ccREL is based on the World-Wide Web Consortium's Resource Description Framework (RDF). Compared to the previous recommendation, ccREL is intended to be both easier for content creators and publishers to provide, and more convenient for user communities and tool builders to consume, extend, and redistribute.
(Note: we agree that the document then published by the W3C would be published under a dual CC-W3C license.)
This submission does not use any proprietary technology.
We suggest that the Consortium publish this paper as a Member Submission that complements (but need not be included in REC track) RDFa.
Beyond approving and publishing this note, no additional resources are required.
Inquiries from the public or press about this Submission should be directed to: ben@adida.net.
this 1st of May, 2008,
Ben Adida