Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (
ccREL) is a proposed
Rights Expression Language A Rights Expression Language or REL is a machine-processable language used to express intellectual property rights (such as copyright) and other terms and conditions for use over content. RELs can be used as standalone expressions (i.e. metadata usa ...
(REL) for descriptive metadata to be appended to media that is licensed under any of the
Creative Commons licenses
A license (or licence) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit).
A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreeme ...
. According to the draft submitted to the
W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 and led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working to ...
, it is to come in the forms of
RDFa for (x)HTML pages and
XMP for standalone media.
External links
Creative Commons
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W3C submission
ccREL: The Creative Commons Rights Expression Language- W3C Member Submission 1 May 2008
FSF and GNU GPL
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* {{cite web
, title=GNU GPL 3.0 in ccREL
, url=https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.rdf
, publisher=
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft (" ...
, format=ccREL
Creative Commons
Metadata
Digital rights management standards