Thounds will start using Safe Creative to help new talents protect their works

Mario Pena

Things are accelerating lately. We have so many news to tell… And here goes a good one. Thounds, one of the most promising projects we have heard of latelly, will start using our registration services very soon. After some weeks of negotiation we just signed a collaboration agreement.

Here the press release:

Thounds Inc. has just signed an agreement with Safe Creative, the most important online copyright registry. According to this partnership, all the recordings made with Thounds will be automatically timestamped being that an official proof in case of chronological debates.

Recordings on Thounds are under Creative Common License, unless otherwise stated. The default license is “Attribution Non- Commercial Share Alike” also known as “cc by-nc-sa”. The user can modify the license at any time and he is aware that commercial use of a musical piece requires the consent of all users involved in the complete composition.

This feature will represent a further fortification into building up a copyright infringement shield, according to the guidelines on section 92B of the Copyright Act.

Thounds is a new collaborative music platform that users can share inspirations with, and it’s growing fast with the typical social network features, yet many have put it like a Twitter for music or a Facebook without a keyboard but only a mic. Thounds is for musicians as well as for just music lovers.

http://thounds.com

Safe Creative is the first independent on-line world wide copyright registry, free to use, open to all and globally accessible.  The service allows creators and rightholders to register their works and obtain a valid proof suitable to be used on trial, by means of a  certificate of registry digitally signed.
http://www.safecreative.org

UPDATE June 14th 2011: Thounds has ceased to integrate our registration tools as we both agreed we need a different kind of integration. So until we find out the best way to do so, the collaboration has stopped.

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ROVE editorial starts using our registration services

Mario Pena

We are proud to announce that Editorial ROVE is starting to use our registration services to protect author’s copyrights.

We specially like their philosophy about inclusivity rather than exclusivity and the conviction they have on the idea that informing about “copyrights” is the best way to protect contents in the digital economy that’s coming. Somehow it just seems like a very natural collaboration.

We will be working on a small scale system to bring copyrights registries to the ebook ecosystem. We are sure this will be great for writers around the world.

But what is ROVE editorial?

Www.editorialrove.com adds one adventure into the world via the Internet: the free publication of ideas, thoughts, reflections … of eBooks with the firm conviction that it can bridge between the hundreds of thousands of writers and millions people who enjoy the reading and literary arts in the broadest sense.

Dreams, fantasies, research, music, occupations, education, culture, drawing, arts in general are expressions that accompany humanity for thousands of years, carving their knowledge in different ways: first, on the cave walls, then etching papyri and, more recently, on paper up to our present where computer technology mix for new access to communication and culture; at this point, Editorial ROVE enters a channel to allow humanity to continue it’s expression.

After the consuming process to write a play, when we decided that “the work” is ready to be shown to the world, many authors are faced with an arduous road and obstacles that cloud the ability to publish. ROVE Editorial proposes a much shorter way: publish online for free while preserving the rights of the work.

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