Mirror CC content to external servers (e.g. OurMedia.org, Archive.org)
omar - May 21, 2005 - 14:59
| Project: | Creative Commons |
| Version: | HEAD |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | won't fix |
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Description
Since ourmedia.org promises to host all CC licensed work "for free for ever", it seems that adding the possibility to automatically publish attachments to these services would be a natural extension of the creative commons module. This would not only encourage the creation/submission of more CC'd content, it would provide a mechanism for small/independent media sites to reduce the costs/risks related to popular content (i.e. "slashdot-effect")... which is all the more costly/disabling when dealing with bulky multimedia content.
#1
I agree this would be a killer feature.
Not sure if the CC mod is appropriate for this as it seems to deal more w/ CC licensing of content.
Maybe a ourmedia/archive (or some sort of attachment mirror) mod would be more appropriate, focused on an api that mirrors content to other sites that allow this.
Nice idea and I agree that this would be a super mod to serve users who don't have space or bandwidth.
#2
I like this idea, but it seems like work for a different module. This module is concerned with specifying and expressing the license terms for content on a site. Another module that pushes CC-licensed content could be made to depend on this license. Even better, because of CC metadata, a program could be written that copies CC content from any site over to those services.