CC REL

Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL) is a specification describing how license information may be described using RDF and how license information may be attached to works.

A paper describing ccREL will be published "real soon now". An overview of the vocabulary is available with the namespace description.

ccREL metadata, as encoded using RDFa or XMP, may be embedded in a variety of filetypes. Additional confidence may be added to embedded metadata through the use of web statement.

Presentations

• COMMUNIA January 2008

Examples

Simple

My Book by Jon Phillips is licensed under a 

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative Commons 
Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 License</a>. 

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at 
<a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" rel="cc:morePermissions" 
href="http://somecompany.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">somecompany.com</a>.

Advanced

<span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

<span rel="dc:type" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title">My Book</span> by 
<a rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName" href="http://rejon.org/my_book">Jon Phillips</a> 

is licensed under a 

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative Commons 
Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 License</a>. 

<span rel="dc:source" href="http://deerfang.org/her_book"/>
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at 
<a rel="cc:morePermissions" 
href="http://somecompany.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">somecompany.com</a>.

</span>

Specifications by Filetype

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See Also

• RDFa is the cored technology behind ccREL
• XMP
• ccPlus uses ccREL