[uf-new] rel=license scoping and hAudio

[Toby A Inkster]

> http://creativecommons.org/license/music
>
> Their approach has the musical work(s) described on a page as the only
> content on that page, so rel="license" makes a little more sense in
> their use case. This would also make sense in the hAudio case, but  
> has a
> very high probability of abuse.

This only works when the primary topic of the page is a single work  
under the given licence, or a collection of works all under the same  
licence. If there are works under different licences, or if the  
hAudio is only a small part of a the page (as in my "Music in the  
Digital Age" essay example), then it fails.

> The XHTML vocabulary also defines rel="license" as applying to the
> current document and not to resources in the document.
> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#license
> Keep in mind that this is a non-issue in RDFa since you always have a
> subject, which is why it is supported in Audio RDFa[2].

I'm referring more to pages written as non-RDFa hAudio which are then  
*parsed* as RDFa. Because then no explicit RDFa subject is likely to  
be given (using e.g. @typeof or @about), so any conforming RDFa  
implementation will take rel=license to apply to the entire page.

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Toby A Inkster
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