At this moment there are already 18,000 registered works in Safe Creative and only one out of four chooses coyleft right options.
It’s odd
At the beginning of the project we would have bet for the opposite trend, convinced that a global register could become more useful for the copyleft options, in which, as some rights are free, it seems logical to suposse that they need more protection against not authorised uses.
It’s possible that the reason for this difference is because the works with all rights reserved are a majority, or because their authors prefer to register their rights, or … (?)
The percentages of licenses used in 18,000 registered works are:
72.8% - All rights reserved
12.9% - CC Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives
6.3% - CC Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike
3.3% - CC Attribution Non-commercial
2.1% - CC Attribution
1.2% - CC Attribution Share Alike
0.7% - CC Attribution No Derivs
0.4 - GNU LGPL
0.3% - GNU GPL
0.1% - GNU FDL
May 14th, 2008
This is the first lab prototype feature: a browser window which allows you to drag and drop files from your desktop to be registered.
How it works:
1.- Select your personal information page by clicking on your user name.
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April 16th, 2008
The moment the rights of a work are more vulnerable is when it has been just created, because for the author is difficult to prove the work is his.
As the author all property intellectual rights are yours. You decide how to use and distribute your work. You can sign contracts, or free some rights, but only if you are the author.
The best safety rule is prevention. If you have just created your work, and you want to send the draft to the media, or publish it, the best advice is to register and distribute it with the registry label.
This way you will have the authory proof of an independent registry, and the label allows:
- to consult the work rights any time
- to prevent from plagiarism
How to get it
1.- From the registered works list, select “see”
2.- At the bottom of the page select “labels”
3.- Choose the model you prefer, at 72, 150 or 300 dpi.
February 22nd, 2008
The Safe Creative feed is now available with the latest work registered containing public information. You may consult these using any news reader/aggregator, indicating the address of the feed
http://feeds.safecreative.org/feed/works/latest
which is also available on the main registry page.
February 2nd, 2008
This week we have done the following changes:
- Compatibility problems with some versions of Safari for Mac have been solved.
- The legal terms or privacy policy and storage of users data have been adapted to the legal normatives.
- Now the first time a new user logs in Safe Creative registry, the personal information page is shown, not to forget to give the author’s name or pseudonym used for signing the works.
And soon more novelties…
January 24th, 2008
To be more accurate when registering a work, now it is possible to select subcategories in work type field.
All the registered works have been included in the “general:other ” subcategory of each group.
If you want to assign a specific category for a work you can do it from the edition window.
December 5th, 2007
The first tools to automatically register articles from Blogger and WordPress are available in this page. These are two bookmarklets: one for Internet Explorer and the other for FireFox, which are simple to use:
1.- Add a link to the bookmark in the favourite’s bar of your navigator.
2.-From the Blogger or WordPress administrator screen, when you have finished the article, press the link in the navigator.
3.- Automatically it will send the title and text to a window in the Safe Creative registry. Check the details, the type of work and license, and press “Register”
That’s it. The content and the license information are now registered. In the window HTML code is available, which can be included in the post as a stamp to provide license information and an indication of where it is registered.
November 21st, 2007
Next week on, Safe Creative is starting to offer the first utilities which will allow to consult registered works. The first one will be a feed which will inform about the latest registered works.
This utility will offer information about registered works as public, the same way as all future consulting utilities.
At any time you can change your registered works settings to any of these posibilities:
1.- Public registry and allowed download: Choose this option if you wish to offer information about your works through the consulting utilities, and allow the download of the works.
2.- Public registry: Choose this option if you wish to offer information about your works through the consulting utilities, and allow the download of the works, but without allowing the download of the work.
3.- Private registry: Chosse this option if you don’t wish the consulting utilities to offer information about the work.
If at this moment there are works you wish to have a private registry, please check you did it this way when you registered them. If you wish to make them public you can change them whenever you want.
Other utilities already incorporated are:
- Feed so that users can be updated about license changes of a specific work.
- Feed of the registered works by an author.
Both of them only for public registries.
- Possibility to register works bigger than 15 Mb.
Thanks for using Safe Creative.
November 16th, 2007
With attention to the suggestions that you have been sending, and in order to give more utility to the future functions of work searching, we have separated the category of audio-visual work into two new categories: Video and Music.
We have separated works already registered according to the files deposited. Those files with extension .mp3, .ogg, .mid and .wma, are now in “music”. The rest are now in ” video”.
For those who had musical compositions registered with other extensions, please have a look, and from the “Edition work” screen, you can change the work to the appropriate category.
Many thanks for your cooperation.
November 3rd, 2007
We have now integrated the complete web in Spanish, and extended the list of languages for work registered.
At the moment safecreative.org can be viewed automatically in English or Spanish, according to the default language configured by your navigator.
The list to indicate the language of the work to be registered (where relevant), has been extended and either covers the official languages in four or more countries (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, German, Italian and Russian); Chinese although it is the official language in only three countries, it is the most spoken; and the co-official Spanish languages, the projects country of origin and where it has been officially presented.
October 17th, 2007
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