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Yahoo Adds Search for Creative Commons Content
BlakeCaldwell writes "Yahoo has added the ability to search specifically for content with unconventional copyright arrangements. The search tool was produced in order to help promote Creative Commons' efforts to advocate the use of nontraditional copyright arrangements between digital content developers and people interested in licensing those individuals' work. The group said that most of the content available through the Yahoo search can be licensed for free under required attribution or noncommercial usage guidelines." Commentary on Lawrence Lessig's Blog.
I tried a few different searches on a range of topics and on pretty much every page there was no notice of non-traditional license and most had a copyright notice at the bottom.
Ahem...
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
which can be found, simply enough, here: code.google.com
It may be interesting to know that Nutch has been used for this purpose for a while now:
http://search.creativecommons.org/index.jsp. It may also be interesting to know that Yahoo! Labs hosts a Nutch demo search engine with a few hundred million indexed web pages.
Simpy
Well, you could use the Internet Archive's new Ourmedia site; automagic BitTorrent tracking and distribution and the like is definitely something they've been planning and hope to release in the immediate future.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Your photos are listed with a disallow entry in your site's robots.txt.
Yahoo and Google almost certainly (I am over 99% sure of this) respect robots.txt
Also, something called NPBot is told to avoid your whole domain.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
This is not unconventional copyright arrangements, it is unconventional licensing arrangements.
The copyright is just the same as everyone else's copyright. Nothing unconventional to see here. Move along.
What is, perhaps, unconventional is how the works are licensed.
Perhaps just as unconventional is slashdot, where in this thread alone, we will probably see both of the non-words "copywrite" and "copywritten" before the end of the day.
The price of freedom is eternal litigation.
Part of the problem with "free" stuff that is truly free is that people don't know about it, assume by default it must be crap,
Unfortunately the vast majority IS crap (although this could be said of professional music as well though possibly to a lesser extent).
Popularity metrics are one way to try and combat this. It also helps to have an active community or a webmaster who will try and do a bit of filtering.
I allow anybody to submit to my project but also spend a lot of time scouring the net looking for content that doesn't suck. I think I have put up some pretty good stuff lately and there is more to come.
Guilt Free P2P - Free Legal Downloads Just in case you have sigs turned off...
Look for the CC logo, sometimes embedded inside some comments... (Beta indeed)
As for the copyright notice, CC works usually have one. Only the license grants you more rights.
Most CC licenses are quite different from "public domain".
This might have something to do with Yahoo buying Flickr. Flickr is a photolog site that uses creative commons for its users who want to license their pictures (It's quite a good site, I use it myself). Yahoo is now hosting a bunch of creative commons licensed pictures that they'd like to draw attention to.