Facebook Application for Choosing Your Creative Commons License

Posted on May 19, 2009
Filed Under creative commons, creativity, online search, online tools, search engine, social media, social networking, writing | Comments

A new application for social network Facebook has been developed by Creative Commons for letting Facebook users choose how they would like their content on their profile pages to be shared.

This is done by creating a badge through a combination of the usual options for licenses: attribution, sharealike, non-commercial, and so on…

The largest limitation is that works can only be licensed on a per-profile basis, which basically means you can’t license different media or items of your profile in different ways – as you can do with your photos on Flickr, for istance.
You have to license all your work under a single license of your choice – be it pictures, status updates, pages, notes, you name it.

Another point worth noticing is the use of RDFa, but since Facebook profiles are not publicly indexed, that makes actually no difference as concerns to search engines.

For a very good slide presentation of Creative Commons, head over here.
For details on the application, here.
Source: Fred Benenson / Creative Commons

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linda

E' talmente tanto in inglese questo blog che posso solo scriverti cose non inerenti....vabbè....comunque mi sembra interessante, che poi io non capisca è un altro discorso....