I received an email from Paul Miller of Talis yesterday (he obviously doesn’t stop working either!), bringing to my attention, an article in the Independent about the saga between Viacom and Google. Paul has written a blog post about this also.
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Mark – my note to Paul re CC was sent within seconds of a quick glance at his email as I was running out the door. I can see what you mean by your comment. In fact, we’re in the process of creating Content Labels for CC. We could do the same for your code too. Long story short, the Content Labels we use are now going through the W3C to turn them into ‘the’ standard method for labelling content.

thanks for your comment – wow, small world!

About to do some contact knitting, off-air…

I am writing as the Project Coordinator of ACAP and delighted to see your piece on ACAP. You are entirely correct that ACAP is not duplicating Creative Commons, nor are we in any sort of opposition to CC — just coming from a rather different place. We have been in touch with CC.

We are also keen not to reinvent any wheels and indeed have this as an explicit part of our mandate (so long as anything we build on means we can still end up with an open standard). I have very recently become aware of Segala — I don’t know Paul Walsh but would be happy to talk to him. We have already had conversations with others about content labelling standards.

Mark