Licensing complications

[psubhashish]

Right now, by default, all the content produced by users are copyrighted by the respective users

Right now there is no way for the user to choose what license the content will be. What that leads to is creating copyrighted content because everything that a user creates [irrespective of the platform they choose to create] is copyrighted by the original author. And the publisher (Poly/Wikitongues) has no rights to change the content into any license of their choice. So to avoid this complications, most content-heavy sites like YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud and Wikimedia Commons now support multiple licenses that the user can choose. As Poly is an open source tool, here are some of the options that I'd suggest to include in a dropdown that the user can choose on their end:

1. CC0 (equivalent to Copyleft, there are many who would opt this)
2. CC-BY
3. CC-BY-SA 4.0 International (current version of the CC-BY-SA licenses and can be used globally)
4. CC-BY-NC (slightly restrictive as it doesn't allow commercial use)
5. CC-BY-ND-NC (even more restrictive than the previous one, does not allow reproduction and commercial use; but there might be users that would like to use this)

[FredericoAndrade]

Wonderful suggestions, we've been thinking about this lately. I'll get on implementing this with your suggestions.

[FredericoAndrade]

For future reference

Getting started with Schema.org

• Integrating Creative Commons
• Resource Description Framework
• CC Rights Expression Language
• Learning Resource Metadata Initiative

[FredericoAndrade]

@alolita your insight would be a great help regarding implementation