australian arts website includes CC
Published by elliott bledsoe on Saturday, 20 October 2007 at 11:33 AM
as i reported on the ccau website, australian arts database, artabase added cc licensing to the site. i applaud the intention, to turn "contemporary events listings into a growing database of art history."
where a cc licence has been placed on the image, the type of the licence (including a link to the commons deed) replaces "All Rights Reserved" in the copyright notice. better integration than some sites, but, like cc international community and business development manager, jon phillips pointed out on the cc-community discussion list, i feel that more specific licensing details would be good (ie v 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 etc) and access to more info about the licences (whether by linking to http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ or replicating the info from that page) at the moment i feel that the functionality is there with little supporting documentation which may act to discourage new users from using cc.
i feel it should also be the australian licences by default. of course the point of cc is that the licences are interoperable so it doesn't matter which country's licences you use, we'd obviously prefer australian projects used the ccau licences. even if the database wasn't limited to just the australian licences, having the australian licences as a default, and other jurisdictions needed to be specifically selected would be good. too often australian cc projects are using the unported licence.
You'll pass this on, won't you:
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Hi Elliott,
I completely appreciate your suggestions here, and will definitely be providing more information about Creative Commons.
After speaking to a CC-AU rep we thought it would not be necessary to have the version numbers as the latest version is backwards compatible with earlier versions. If you feel there is a case for it I'm happy to be talked into it.
As for making the default jurisdiction Australian, we have not done this as the website, whilst built in Australia, is intended for use by artists from around the world. However we have been advised that the default jurisidiction should be either the country in which the license owner lives, or if the image is specifically intended for a different national region, then the country of the target audience. The former seems more appropriate for our website where the audience will be international.
I'll be sure to keep up with your RSS feed to hear any further feedback you've got.
Thanks for your help!
actually i agree. given the breadth of country content is from a default country probably wouldn't work. but being able to choose a certain country's cc licences would still be useful i feel. for example the current list includes countries which do not have cc licences as yet. in that instances, if your country isn't listed you should choose 'my country isn't there' and it will apply the generic licence.
the site looks great though. was a great resource