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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
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.
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
Mario Pena
There’s now available an option to register works with more than one rights holder. Initially it has been created as a basic operation that will be developed based on the feedback we receive. In addition to complement this functionality and to add more information to the copyrighted works now you can also add files to accompany the registrations.
Feature included in Premium and Professional Account.
How does it work in a few steps (.PDF):
- You can add rights holders both in pre-registrered and registered works.
- Go to “My Works” and in the dropdown menu on the right you have the option “Add rights holders”
- A new window will open where you can write the emails of other rights holders separated by a comma in case they are more than one. You can select whether these people (or person) are authors, authors and copyright holders or holders of rights. You can also establish whether they can make changes or entries in the registration form of the work.
- SafeCreative will send an email with a link to that persons and they may either accept the request, so that the work will also appear in their listings, or reject it. Although the email can be other than the one the user might have in SafeCreative, he or she may log in with the normal account and accept or reject the authorship so the work will appear in the right account.
- You can view the status of invitations you’ve sent by clicking on the icon of “rights holders” that will appear next to each work.
- Optionally you can upload files to accompany the work, as a text file explaining the rights holdings, sketches for a work, physical details of a sculpture, etc.. The option appears also in the dropdown menu at the right of each registration.
- This is how we can see the public display of registration information.
- Questions, suggestions can be sent to us through the Contact form.
March 2nd, 2010
Mario Pena
Partners
Magnatune
Jamendo
Collaborations
Creative Commons
Tallersdemusics
February 26th, 2010
Mario Pena
In just over two years Safe Creative already deals with the recording of works of more than 25,000 creators, a volume that provides useful information and data about the ways people use registration services and licenses depending upon the kind of work or country. To offer this information and share it with all users, we just launched a basic version of a copyright observatory.
Through future releases the amount of information and ways to better configure segmentation information as desired will be expanded.
We can observe some interesting facts like that when talking about “some rights reserved” licenses a minority of registered works allow commercial use, ranging from 10 to 40%. We also note the very large quantities of works allow derivative works, in some cases over 90%.
According to the type of work we find that for drawings, photographs, etc. the percentage of all rights reserved registered works generally exceeds by more than twice those registered with some rights reserved. Regards music, since August 2009 the opposite has happened, probably because the massive records made from Magnatune.com and Jamendo.com, projects that use Creative Commons licenses.
Regarding the differences between countries we can see that the type of licenses that are chosen widely vary among the users of Spain, France, Canada or Argentina for example.
February 17th, 2010
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
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