Mario Pena
Safe Creative has become the best and most advanced copyright private registry online. Betting on technology to protect content in the digital age is key to success. However its usefulness stops to be purely theoretical to prove itself worth in practical ways.
In addition to the deterrent effect of the system, Safe Creative is learning about some specific cases in which the registration service has played a key role to protect and defend the rights of authors in conflicts with third parties.
Recently, a novelist, Misk, contacted Safe Creative to acknowledge the role of this registering service to help prove her authorship. She said that recently had a dispute with a publisher who had entered without her consent her novel “Mi Expresión Ondulante” (Safe Creative private registration number 0907044079590) in the Intellectual Property Registry of the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Thanks to the comfort and the free of charge nature of Safe Creative, the writer was able to early record the authorship of her work as soon as she finished it a few months ago. Confronted with a subsequent registration of the same work in the RPI by an editorial the author contacted the central registry of Spain to claim her full and complete authorship. According to what she tells to Safe Creative, since the RPI could not get any satisfactory answer from the editorial to clarify the issue, the central registry information requested her to bring authorship proofs of her work to which she responded sending the registration certificate made months ago in the Safe Creative copyright registry.
Shortly after that the author received the RPI statement attributing the full authorship of the book to her.
If there is no doubt the she would have been finally able to proof her authorhip even if she had not previously registered the book with Safe Creative – with more or less trouble – it’s for certain that Safe Creative has played a key role to solve the problem in a fast, convenient and satisfying way.
Thus, as we say, there is nothing to lose and yes there is much to gain by registering immediately and freely with Safe Creative.
February 8th, 2010
Mario Pena
Hello everyone,
Many of you might have noticed some changes in Safe Creative. With some delay we want to go through some of them, but first we wish to clarify that professional features are additional and optional to the free of charge basic registration. During testing period to load credits to acquire these features is also free of charge.
You might be interested to learn about a specific case of practical usefulness of early content registration in Safe Creative. A novelist has been able to demonstrate her authorship against a subsequent registration in an official copyright registry thanks in part to Safe Creative. She had been able to previously and comfortably register her novel as soon she finished creating so an early authorship proof.
There are new advanced features that enable users to perform certain actions and they have these characteristics: 1) to acquire the functionality you only need to exchange it for a few credits you can get free of charge during testing period 2) Having these features allow you to perform certain actions for a year; past that time you can no longer perform these additional actions unless you re-contract the service 3) The works are still accessible and remain with the changes made even if you don’t have the advanced features activated in your account.
As many of you have requested, we have included the possibility of self identification with two new digital certificates, Verisign (international) and FNMT (Treasury of Spain)
We have posted the winners of our API Contest. Soon you’ll have new and easy ways to make your registration at Safe Creative. Stay tuned!
We are very excited to inform that we have just signed a partnership agreement with The ElCosmonauta.es, one of the first and best crow-funding movie projects worldwide, which entrusts the registration of his film and many of its contents to Safe Creative. We want to encourage you to go out and become producers of this fantastic project from just 2 euros.
Also we wish to advance that we have signed an agreement of future close cooperation with Trourist.com. Trourist is a global social network which tries to reduce the gap between tourists and locals. Travelers from all over the world, collaborate to make the most of the knowledge shared by those who don’t want to come up looking like Joe Tourist in their upcoming trips.
We take this opportunity to remind you that if you use customized licenses you need to extreme caution and make sure that the license is written by someone with expert knowledge of legal issues around copyright law. If you add licenses found on the Internet make certain you can use it and that they are rigorous. Put the link where the text of the license can be found and copy paste the text of the license itself in the box we provide in the form. If you have any doubt look for legal advice.
February 5th, 2010
Mario Pena
It’s normal to create several versions of the same original work. For this reason it’s very interesting to somehow link the original work with all these versions.
Now you can record versions of previously registered works at Safe Creative leaving them in perfect order.
It’s simple. You have only to clic on the first recorded work at the contextual menu and select recording a new version.
The system will ask you to activate this professional functionality if you haven’t already done so (to recharge points for professional functionalities is free of charge during testing period) and then you will be asked to browse for the new version file. The default system takes the registration data of the earlier work.
Once a new version is registered, the information about any version existing will be displayed in the registration page of all related works.
February 4th, 2010
Mario Pena
Draft explanation of new features:
New IDs supported for the following digital certificates: Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (level 4) and Verisign (Level 3)
# First version with professional services
* The section “My account” includes professional services information assets and the balance available for getting professional services. The acquisition of the balance is free during the test period.
* User can assign a custom thumbnail image of registered works.
* New versions can be registered as work version of one already registered.
* Temporary Licenses: You can define and use custom term temporary licenses.
* Advanced Statistics: The author can see graphs of the consultations and briefing notes downloads of he’s or her’s works, and the list of people who have filed briefs and allowed the author to contact them.
* The private registration is now a professional feature
* Users can show pseudonym in the public profile
January 20th, 2010
Mario Pena
January 19th, 2010
Mario Pena
It has been incredibly difficult to pick the best ones, but after many hours of deliberation we can announce the winners of the contest for applications and plug-ins for Safe Creative’s API. And are:
1st prize: José Pascual Ortiz Sanchez
With his proposal: SafeBook
What to point out?: A great application for Facebook, therefore with great projection which allows registration of any file besides images in the social network. The product is well documented and has a clear code with comments.
He will get a Sony Vaio W11S1E/T
2nd Prize: Daniel Herrero Davila
With his proposal: Zend PHP Wrapper
What to point out?: This is a complete wrapper for a especially important framework. The code is well documented and clear. Includes illustrative usage examples.
He will get a PS3 Slim 120 GB
3rd Prize: Alberto Luis Gimeno Brieba
With his proposal: Work Shaver
What to point out?: Simplifies the selection of the type of license. It has a very good presentation and can tie in to social networks. Good usability and integration with the operating system. Creates an API in Objective-C.
Will win a portable Console GP2X Wiz
We also want to thanks and congratulate the other participants for their contributions and hard work. We will comment some of the most prominent of them in coming posts.
The jury has been composed by:
David Castanon (Safe Creative Technical Director)
Jorge Guillen (Safe Creative Software Engineer)
Manuel Polo (Safe Creative Software Engineer)
Pablo Carranza (Safe Creative Software Engineer)
January 15th, 2010
Mario Pena
As you all might know, Creative Commons is the most important content license in the Internet and right now is quite close to achieve its donation campaign goal of $500k.
So if you have a couple of minutes and wish to contribute to this great project that helps creators and content users to respect their respective interests in the digital ecosystem, don’t hesitate to visit this link to make a donation no matter how small: https://support.creativecommons.org/donate
And of course, we all wish you a happy New Year 2010
December 31st, 2009
Mario Pena
Hope it’s clear enough!
November 24th, 2009
Mario Pena
Safe Creative will represent i-comp.org at a workshop on best practices around the copyright in the digital age at FICOD 09. We will discuss the importance of the existence of online registries to communicate on open standards to help a better understanding of authorship rights in a positive way.
The interaction, the updated information and mutual respect between creators and users is the key to build a digital environment in which all existing sensitivities will fit.
You have the program here.
It will be on November 19th at 18:45 and will last approximately one hour.
November 11th, 2009
Mario Pena
Hi all,
There is much to tell and little time, so we are going to update you with some of the developments and news around Safe Creative.Hope you like them!
* Lets begin by commenting that we have our open API running so you can create any type of application to register and / or consult our registry. To encourage developers to create applications to interact with Safe Creative we just launched a contest. You can check the rules here.
* To illustrate its basic operation we have also created a test plugin for Firefox to identify the author and rights of registered pictures when found in the Web not depending on the metadata. Works for verbatim copies but soon cropped and resized pictures will be identified too.
* Bubok.es, the leader books self-publishing platform in Spain, has just incorporated into its system the possibility for them to register their works in Safe Creative directly from their control panel. The innovative literary project uses our open APIs as websites such as magnatune.com and jamendo.com are already doing for music tracks.
* Advanced searches and counters directly on “My works” view. Now you can search for specific contents through the advanced search feature and see the number of views and certificate request of your works without having to enter in each work’s page.
* After several requests of photographers we can tell you that now thumbnails are also experimentaly generated for RAW files, so if you want you can try to register this kind of files too and see how it works.
* There are more things, but we know you are busy. We encourage you to browse our blog and follow our Twitter updates.
October 20th, 2009
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