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Mario Pena
We have very exciting news to tell.
Attributor, the world’s leading Internet content monitoring company and Safe Creative, are partnering to give Safe Creative’s users a simple way to keep track of where their text contents are being copied on the Internet.
Safe Creative users can now log into the system, then go to “My account”, select the “Work tracking” tab, and check the “Track the publication of your text works….” box in the Internet tab. The system will interact with Attributor’s API to search and report to you a maximum of two matches of any of your registered text files. This includes the files registered from blogs through the RSS feed.
The report will appear in the “Work tracking tab” as a central place to control and be informed about everything around your content.
With this partnership, Safe Creative is taking one step further to become a central place on which creators and rights holders can rely to gather as much information about their works as possible. It’s important to know that it’s not only about getting the strongest proof of authorship that technology can provide, or about giving third parties information about our rights and authorship in a simple convenient way, but also about learning what is happening with our work. The more information you have, the better decisions you will be able to make. Attributor has the best technology to enable us to provide you this service.
This feature is an early beta, so we’d love to have your feedback. Right now we only provide, as mentioned, a maximum of two results per work, but we hope will be able to show more in the future.
To learn more about Attributor and Fairshare, click here.
Notice: results might take some days to appear due to the large amount of works being asked to be searched for.
July 14th, 2010
Mario Pena
Safe Creative will join the Communia 2010 Conference in Turin from 28th June to 1st of July. Here you can find more information and the programme.
Communia is the thematic network on the Digital Public Domain and during those days we will have the chance to share experiences and ideas with the key experts as the ones who will be speaking during those days:
Philippe Aigrain, Sopinspace
Massimo Banzi, Tinker.it
Chiara Basile, unireversity.org
David Bollier, OnTheCommons.org
Boubakar Barry, Association of African Universities
Herbert Burkert, University of St. Gallen
Mario Calabresi, La Stampa
Sandra Cortesi, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Carlo Fabricatore, Initium Studios & University of Worcester
William Fisher, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Urs Gasser, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Commons
Jean-Claude Guedon, Université de Montréal
Lucie Guibault, IVIR
Martin Hall, Salford University, UK
Jef Huang, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Joi Ito, Creative Commons
Jafar Javan, UN Staff College
Ignasi Labastida, University of Barcelona
Paolo Lanteri, WIPO
Colin Maclay, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Catharina Maracke, Keio University
Juan Carlos de Martin, NEXA Center for Internet & Society
Jan Masschelein, Leuven
Charles Nesson, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Carlo Olmo, Politecnico di Torino
David Orban, Singularity University
John Palfrey, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Patrick Peiffer, Luxcommons
Antoine Picon, Harvard University
Francesco Profumo, Politecnico di Torino
Stefano Rodotà, University of Rome
Marco de Rossi, Oilproject.org
Marco Santambrogio
Stuart Shieber, Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Office for Scholarly Communication at Harvard University
Maarten Simons, Leuven
Bruce Sterling, Notable Futurologist and Author
Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd.
Sirin Tekinay, Ozyegin
Stephan Vincent-Lancrin, OECD
June 25th, 2010
Mario Pena
We are proud to announce that we will be at the 4th Plagiarism Conference being held at Newcastle Upon Tyne in the Northumbria University from the 21st to 23rd of June 2010. More information here and in the official programme.
The themes from the 2010 conference place a positive emphasis on the value of true academic endeavour whilst highlighting innovative practice from individual practitioners and bodies throughout the education sector. Keynote speakers are key figures in the global academic integrity community, including Jude Carroll, Deputy Director of the ASKe CETL at Oxford Brookes University, UK, Dr. Teresa Fishman, Director of the Center for Academic Integrity, US, Isabel Nisbet, acting Chief Executive of Ofqual and Adrian Slater, Head of Legal Services, University of Leeds, UK.
June 18th, 2010
Mario Pena
Safe Creative can help you with the contests for creative authors you are thinking of, being both a sponsor and/or offering the right tools to contribute to the success of it.
Safe Creative proposes you to tell us your project, and if we like it and suits our vision and project, we will help you sponsoring at least part of it. Don’t doubt it, contact us and let’s talk. We want to know about it.
But besides that, Safe Creative offers to any other contest very important tools. We describe two of them:
1.- If you are organizing the contests, you can add in the rules the need of the work to be registered with Safe Creative, creating therefore an independent authorship claim proof. This will avoid, as much as possible, for you to get works not created by the ones who send them. Creating this proof in our servers means that you have an electronic secure statement. This proof is so strong it’s virtually invulnerable.
2.- If you are taking part in contests, whether the registration in Safe Creative is or not in the rules, you might better register with us to avoid any plagiarism or work misuse temptation . Create your free of charge authorship proof requesting contests to respect your copyrights, although you might perfectly give them specific rights to use the work.
Safe Creative is the independent and neutral platform that gives tools for anybody and is very interested into encouraging creativity. Since contests are essential for the promotion of creativity, what are you waiting for to tell us your project?
June 4th, 2010
Mario Pena
Next week is going to be very hectic. We are traveling to San Francisco (2nd to 6th May) to the Web 2.0 Expo and then will go a couple of days to Las Vegas. Will take the occasion to hold some quite interesting meetings we hope will be able to tall you about in a near future. Things are getting very interesting around Safe Creative latelly and we are very excited about it.
But for starters just let you know that we will be at the ICEX stand and will share a brief presentation. Here the details:
Title: Self Managing (C)opyrights with Safe Creative
by Mario Pena (aka myself)
What’s about?: Thanks to the feedback of our users, we have a good vision of what is going on with copyrights and the way to solve problems around them in the digital era. Will take a new way to look at this allegedly boring issues… because far from being boring, are very interesting and sometimes even fun!
Where: Web 2.0 Expo at the ICEX stand. San Francisco.
Date: Wednesday 5th May 2010
12:00 – 13:00 PM (About 15-25 minutes talk and time to make and answer questions for a while)
Stay tuned!
April 27th, 2010
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
April 26th, 2010
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.
April 26th, 2010
Mario Pena
It’s a pleasure to announce the collaboration between Dibujando.net and Safe Creative. Now their users will be able to register their contents directly through the promising creative project into Safe Creative copyright registry.
Dibujando.net is the quintessence meeting point for artists who want to show their work to the rest of the world, offering protection backup, as well as a place where to learn and improve their technique, in a community where self-improvement is the main philosophy.
Dibujando.net is a collaborative community, and its content is not only confined to artistic creations, as anyone can share his/hers knowledge by providing content such as tutorials and articles on the subject they want.
April 15th, 2010
Mario Pena
We want to report some new features we’ve created for you. We are confident you’ll enjoy them like for instance the automatic registration by RSS, or the possibility of sending cease and desist letters. We want also to recall some features already deployed… and an interesting initiative we are collaborating with:
- Registration feeds. You can automate the registration of posts of your blogs or photo hosting accounts (eg Zooomr or Flickr), and other kind of content hosting sites by entering the feed in “My Account / Registration Feeds.”
- It is possible to send cease and desist letters to alleged infringers of your intellectual property. The option can be found in the drop-down “More Actions” menu at the right of your works.
- Request specific permissions. If you go to edit any of your works you can check the box “Allow users to request other usages and rights” so that other users can request you additional permissions to those expressed by the license. Very interesting for the not copyleft creative commons licenses and the “all rights reserved” works.
- Skip pre-registration button. Now you can avoid the 24 hours pre-registration period for your works and make the full registration directly by clicking on the option that appears next to each of them.
- ART (Automatic Registering Tool). Do you have a folder full of pictures you would like to register? With this program you can register all of them and if you later add new pictures to the folder they’ll also get automatically recorded. Of course you can configure as many folders with different types of content as you want.
- Registration of works with several co-rights holders. Have you written a song together with other authors? Have you registered a photo that has not really been taken by you, but that was on your camera? You can fix it with this system. You might add rights holders from the drop-down “More Actions” menu next to each work.
- Documentary: We are collaborating with an interesting documentary initiative about the controversy surrounding the sharing and download of contents in the Internet. It’s called, “Copiad, copiad malditos”, an initiative of ElegantMobFilms of which you can read more at their blog on blogs of RTVE.
April 9th, 2010
Mario Pena
We have added some new features to Safe Creative we think you might find interesting:
- Automatic registration through RSS feeds
- Cease and desist letters
- Possibility to allow specific uses of works
Automatic registering through feeds
The automatic feed registering is used to automatically register the posts on a blog as they get published. To use it you have to associate the feed with a previously created profile.
To access the functionality you have to go to “My account” / Registration feeds. Once there you can enlist the direction introducing the RSS feed, blog address, selecting the content type, the registration profile, etc.
On your blog, preferably in the bottom of the page or other area to which access may be permanent, you have to publish one of the verification codes Safe Creative creates so that our bot will be able verify that the blog is yours.
You can also register file feeds, image feeds such as Flickr, Zooomr, or podcasts introducing the the specific feed for those contents.
Sending letters by incidences of works (Cease & Desist)
In the case or event of your work being plagiarized or used in an allegedly unlawful manner now you can send Cease and Desist letter directly from Safe Creative. You can select the option from the dropdown menu next to each copyrighted work. The system will generate a letter requesting to stop such activities to the person allegedly infringing your copyrights.
To complete the letter you have to get the email address of the alleged offender. He or she will receive an email from Safe Creative with a link that allows him or her to answer. When the issue gets answered you will receive notification of it by mail. Upon receipt of that response you can decide new actions to take. Before using this utility we highly recommend you to seek the advice of an attorney.
Requests for specific uses in works
If you use “all rights reserved” or some of the creative commons licenses with one or more restriction, you might want to make it simple for third parties to request you uses not covered by default. To enable the system to grant specific permission you need to go into editing your work and check the box under the license that says “Allow users to request other usages and rights.”
When that box is checked a new icon will appear in the registration display page. Through this icon other users can request you the use of your work under conditions not covered by default by just filling a simple form.
From the panel for works tracking, you always can either accept or reject the proposal.
March 30th, 2010
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