As noted back in February 2002, the Creative Commons aims to tag digitized intellectual property with a machine-readable license.
At the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference today, the Creative Commons principals announced the non-profit’s implementation plans and the availability of its website.
While the software necessary for authors to tag their work and users to search for specific license tags won’t be available until this fall at the earliest, Creative Commons has released technology overviews for both systems:
This is a major step in the right direction of increasing the availability of works both in the public domain and with limited license restrictions.
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