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Re: [whatwg] Creative Commons Rights Expression Language

From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:54:01 -0700
Message-ID: <48B2C789.5050300@adida.net>
To: Kristof Zelechovski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>
CC: 'Henri Sivonen' <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "'Bonner, Matt'" <matt.bonner@hp.com>, 'Julian Reschke' <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, 'Ian Hickson' <ian@hixie.ch>, 'Dan Brickley' <danbri@danbri.org>, "'Tab Atkins Jr.'" <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-archive@w3.org

Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
> The HTML element for cc:attributionName is ADDRESS, or META[name="Author"],
> or (discontinued) LINK[rev="made"].

That doesn't work. Because in a lot of cases, the author is not the same
as the person to whom you give attribution, or you want it displayed
slightly differently, or.... the list goes on.

There isn't nearly enough existing markup in HTML to get anywhere close
to the amount of data we need to express.

-Ben
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