Call for Participation in Licensed Content Community Group
The Licensed Content Community Group has been launched:
Group to discuss how to handle licensed content that is published on the web.
Propose an efficient way forward for all stakeholders.
Content involved:
– (stock) photos
– song lyrics
– video
Currently majority of enforcement relies on identifying unlicensed content, contact publisher or hoster, followed up by DMCA’s or proof of ownership/licensing.
Current known stakeholders:
- Google / Youtube
- Microsoft/Bing
- Web Sheriff
- Pex
- Shutterstock
- NMPA
- Lyricsseal/Directlyrics
(work in progress)
In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account. Please note, however, that W3C Membership is not required to join a Community Group.
This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2017-02-07 by Yvo Schaap. The following people supported its creation: Yvo Schaap, Johan Schaap, Mohamed ZERGAOUI, Audald Lloret-Villas, Byongseung Cho. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.
The group must now choose a chair. Read more about how to get started in a new group and good practice for running a group.
We invite you to share news of this new group in social media and other channels.
If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please email us at site-comments@w3.org
Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team
