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The official @github repository of the Trovebox frontend software. A photo sharing and photo management web interface for data stored "in the cloud" (i.e. Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles, Google Storage).
https://trovebox.com
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Add the CC0 license (Creative Commons Zero) #1222

Open nikolaygit opened 11 years ago

nikolaygit commented 11 years ago

Add the CC0 license (Creative Commons Zero) for photo uploads.

sushimustwrite commented 11 years ago

Good idea. Someone pointed out to me today that photo sites (even those with CC licenses) seem to ignore CC0, so having this license as an option would be a good thing.

ms-studio commented 11 years ago

Yes, it would be great to have support for CC0. No photo hosting service I know of supports that licence, currently. It would be useful for people who are tired of the compatibility issues of the core CC licenses, and want to make their footage available for the most wide range of use cases.

It would also be useful for organisations who have large historical image collections, and want to publish them without restricting the distribution. They cannot use Flickr or similar services (Vimeo, Youtube, Soundcloud), because they automatically attribute copyright to the uploader. Actually for those cases, the most accurate tool woudn't be CC0, but the Public Domain Mark (also introduced by Creative Commons, and used by Europeana): http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/

artob commented 11 years ago

@ms-studio Note that Europeana actually use CC0, not the older CC Public Domain Mark: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/pro-blog/-/blogs/europeana-opens-up-full-dataset-for-re-use

ms-studio commented 11 years ago

Correct, but that applies to the "descriptive metadata", that is, the material for which Europeana is "holder of copyright or database rights". That's exactly the use case for CC0 - it's intended to be used by copyright holders.

The work themselves, being already in the public domain, should be labeled with the Public Domain Mark. The CC0 tool "should not be used to mark works already in the public domain".

So it's really two different use cases. I guess that's the tricky part of implementing it properly: make it available and easy to understand for users.

Here is a more verbose explanation: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/public-domain-content

artob commented 11 years ago

@ms-studio, thanks for clarifying, that makes sense.