founded on the notion that some people may not want to exercise
all of the intellectual property rights the law affords them (works
are automatically copyrighted)
define a set of (machine and human readable) public licenses
(RDF/XML).
- Attribution. Permit others to copy,
distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works
based upon it only if they give you credit.
- Noncommercial. Permit others to copy,
distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works
based upon it only for noncommercial purposes.
- No Derivative Works. Permit
others to copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim
copies of the work, not derivative works based upon it.
- Copyleft. Permit others to distribute
derivative works only under a license identical to the license
that governs your work.
a means for describing works (Dublin Core and CC) in RDF/XML
and associating license with these works
Current Metadata
Specification is under discussion (comments welcome)