Underpinnings of Creative Commons

The project’s initial goal is to provide an easy method by which creators can indicate, in a machine-readable format, how others may use their intellectual works. The project uses JavaScript, Perl, HTML, and XML to create a web-based application for generating metadata, associated with digital works in a machine-readable format. The metadata corresponds to innovative and flexible licenses designed to help creators of intellectual works share their work with the public on generous terms. Search engines, file sharing applications, digital rights management tools, and other emerging technologies recognize the terms on which those works may be used. [More…]