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)