[uf-discuss] rel-license: what does the license apply to? (open issue revisited)

[Kevin Marks]

Is the problem that the page contains multiple video elements? If so
using hAtom to define them as separate entries may help clarify this,
especially in conjunction with rel-enclosure.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux
<supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Angus,
>
>
>  On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Angus McIntyre <angus at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm in the process of adding 'rel="license"' in the relevant places on
>  > blip.tv, a video-sharing site, and I've run squarely into the 'open issue'
>  > raised by Evan on 2006-04-07 (in the wiki). Namely, there's no obvious way
>  > to specify that the license applies to a content element on a page - a
>  > picture, a video - rather than the page as a whole.
>
>  (I should probably check this before posting... but I'm in a rush...)
>  >From what I remember of the HTML spec, an <a> element with the "rel"
>  attribute set applies to all or part of the HTML page.
>
>  An example of this is rel-bookmark used for hAtom.
>
>  So... the rel-license could apply just to the video.
>
>  >From a machine point-of-view, there's no way (that I'm aware of) to
>  differentiate when the rel-license applies to the whole page or part
>  of the page.
>
>  Suggestions welcome.
>
>
>  See ya
>
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