On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Smylers <smyl...@stripey.com> wrote: > Nils Dagsson Moskopp writes: > >> Am Freitag, den 08.05.2009, 19:57 +0000 schrieb Ian Hickson: >> >> > * Tara runs a video sharing web site for people who want >> > licensing information to be included with their videos. When >> > Paul wants to blog about a video, he can paste a fragment of >> > HTML provided by Tara directly into his blog. The video is >> > then available inline in his blog, along with any licensing >> > information about the video. > [...]
> Why does the license information need to be machine-readable in this > case? (It may need to be for a different scenario, but that would be > dealt with separately.) It would need to be machine-readable for tools like http://search.creativecommons.org/ to do their job: check the license against the engine's built-in knowledge of some licenses, and figure out if it is suitable for the usages the user has requested (like "search for content I can build upon" or "search for content I can use commercialy"). Ideally, a search engine should have enough with finding the video on either Tara's site *or* Paul's blog for it to be available for users. Just my two cents.