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able” terms. The deeds are not legally enforceable but instead summarize the legal code. Take some time to explore the deeds for CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) and CC BY-NC-ND (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) and identify how they differ. Can you find the links to the legal code from each deed?
FIGURE 3.1 The three layers
of a CC license'
- The final layer of the license design recognizes that software plays a critical role in the creation, copying, discovery, and distribution of works. In order to make it easy for websites and web services to know when a work is available under a Creative Commons license, we provide a “machine-readable” version of the license (see figure 3.2)—this is a summary of the key freedoms granted and obligations imposed, and is written into a format that applications, search engines, and other kinds of technology can understand. We developed a standardized way to describe licenses that software can understand called CC Rights Expression Language (CC REL) to accomplish this. When this metadata is attached to CC-licensed works, someone searching for a CC-licensed work using a search engine (e. g., Google Advanced Search) can more easily discover CC-licensed works.
Have a web page? <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31. |
FIGURE 3.2 Example of From Creative Commons License Chooser: |
