Issue286

Title Improve wording for ccSearch disclaimer and make it more prominent
Priority wish Status chatting
Project Web Properties Milestone
Superseder Nosy List gameguy43, mlinksva, nathan, nkinkade, paulproteus
Assigned To gameguy43 Keywords

Created on 2009-04-08.17:55:32 by nkinkade, last changed 2009-07-02.16:41:22 by nathan.

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msg1200 (view) Author: nathan Date: 2009-07-02.16:41:22
[Reassigning tickets that Parker will/is work[ing] on]
msg1170 (view) Author: nkinkade Date: 2009-06-19.18:50:10
This went out via email to a few people, but I'm posting it here too.  This is
some suggested text for search.creativecommons.org:

search.creativecommons.org is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient
access to search services provided by other independent organizations.  CC has
no control over the results that are returned. Certain sites, such as Flickr,
should reliably return only CC-licensed results.  This is because the licensing
of every item at Flickr is stored in a database and can be reliably determined.
 However, for others, Google, for example, non-CC-licensed works may be
returned. Presently, searching the web at large for CC-licensed works is not a
perfect science.   Just as regular web searches are not guaranteed to
return the things you want or expect, neither will a search for CC-licensed
works always return CC licensed material.   Do not assume that everything
returned by this search portal is under a CC license. You should always follow
the link(s) to the works you are interested in and verify that they do indeed
appear to be marked as being under a CC license.  Since there is no registration
to use a CC license, and no such registry exists, CC has no way to determine
what is and isn't under a CC license.  If you are in doubt you should contact
the copyright holder directly, or try to contact the site where you found the
content.
msg752 (view) Author: nkinkade Date: 2009-04-08.17:55:32
Asheesh sent out an email recently about improving the wording of the disclaimer
at http://search.creativecommons.org.  A small thread ensued, and there seemed
to be a general consensus that it ought to be improved.  The goal will be to
improve the wording of the disclaimer so that it's clear what ccSearch is, what
it's not, that one should be cautious of the results, and then to move it to the
top of the page so that you can't help but see it if you go there.
History
Date User Action Args
2009-07-02 16:41:22nathansetnosy: + nathan
messages: + msg1200
assignedto: nkinkade -> gameguy43
2009-06-19 18:50:11nkinkadesetstatus: unread -> chatting
messages: + msg1170
2009-06-19 17:40:00gameguy43setnosy: + gameguy43
2009-04-09 00:07:35paulproteuslinkissue249 superseder
2009-04-08 17:55:32nkinkadecreate