Embedded Licence Information

A quick survey of how licence information encoded in embedded metadata (e.g. exif, ID3) and feeds (RSS, ATOM) is handled by various sites relevant to Open Educational Resources (so mostly it's looking at how CC-licences are handled)

=Office Documents=

Microsoft
Microsoft office addin

Not used by PDFCreator to add XMP metadata to PDFs

Not used by Scribd.

=Images and PDFs= XMP metadata see: creative commons (note, not in EXIF?)

Starting with an image that has an embedded CC licence.

Flickr
JPEG image

Doesn't use embedded XMP licence to set CC status on upload--image was assigned default (c) all rights reserved.

Licence is displayed under "more properties

Original CC-By licence embedded in downloaded file XMP. (all sizes!)

Setting CC-NC licence in Flickr doesn't change XMP license info displayed under more properties (so it now contradicts what Flickr displays)

In ATOM feed:  (note CC-ND, not CC-NC !!)

In RSS2.0 feed: phil barker but no licence info.

Scribd
Image in PDF doc.

Doesn't use embedded XMP licence info to set CC status on upload--image was assigned default CC-By-NC licence, which contradicts what is embedded in PDF.

CC-By-NC licence is shown under more properties

Original CC-By licence embedded in downloaded file XMP.

RSS 2.0 feed gives no licence information.

Slideshare
Image in PDF doc

Doesn't use embedded XMP licence info to set CC status on upload--image was assigned (c) all rights reserved.

CC-By license embedded in downloaded file XMP.

Assigning CC-ND license in Slideshare does not change embedded XMP metadata in download file

RSS2.0 feed has philb but no licence info

=Audio visual= MP3: ID3 tags, see Creative Commons

MPEG4: MPEG21-pt5:REL