That sounds like good idea (about the audio and video elements being included as-well). I just thought of it because Google does not allow one to specify the copyright or license in an image search as far as I know. having a license attribute would make it intuitive for developers to add the license the same way title and alt attributes are specified.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Dawid Czyzewski <magnet...@gmail.com>wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:10, Jonny Barnes <jonnybarnes at gmail.com > ><http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org>> wrote: > > >>* 2010/1/10 will surgent <willeom at gmail.com > >><http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org>>: > *>>>* It would be nice if there was a copyright attribute for the HTML 5 img > tag. > *>>>* This would make it easy for users and search engines to filter out > images > *>>>* that can not be used for certain purposes. > > *>>* > *>>* > *>>* Or maybe a license attribute instead, that would include copyrighted > *>>* work and stuff licensed under some CC or alternative. > *>>* > *> > > > >That's also copyright. > > Well, not exactly, in such attribute you could also enter copyleft licensees > (such as GPL), as also "public domain", so > *"license" sounds more proper for this.* > > > And why img only? this would also be good for audio and video. > >