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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.
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”
- Since it’s an advanced feature, the first time the system will ask you for 5 points from your account (recharging points is free of charge this year).
- 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
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
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
More or less this is what Safe Creative wants to help to do with contents in the Internet and to try and refine the concept we have launched and example of what in the future will be a complete system to indentify authorship and rights of contents in the Internet when they are registered.
We now start as a proof of concept with and example of a verbatim copy of a registered copy of a picture without redimension, crop or anything else. Soon we will include the technology to identify modified contents including video, music, text, etc.
How does it work?
You have basically two prior steps to perform:
1.- To instal our experimental plugin – https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/14452 – in your Mozilla Firefox (for versions from 3.0 to 3.5). If you don’t have Firefox in your computer you might download it here: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/. Restart Firefox to activate the plugin.
Add the plugin to you Firefox
Restart your Firefox to activate the plugin
2.- Register your pictures at Safe Creative (http://www.safecreative.org). Wait 24 hours for the registration to be finished. Remember that you can register as many pictures (and other works) that you want for free and of course the more you register, the better.
Register a picture to try it
Now if you want to try the plugin just upload a verbatim copy of the registered image to the Web, you don’t need to download the picture from Safe Creative first, but just a verbatim copy you might have in your computer. You can upload the picture to a blog, zooomr.com, flickr.com or any other kind of web hosting service that allows to see original sizes of uploaded works.
Upload a verbatim copy of the registered works to Internet
Open the original size picture page with your browser. Remember that right now we only identify verbatim copies of the pictures, so it must be the original size you open or it will not work.
Put you mouse over the picture and hit the right button to select from the contextual menu “get rights info”. If everything goes well a window will open with the basic work information: Title (the title at the registry), author and license. If you hit any of those links you will go to the Safe Creative registration page with the rest of the information.
Open the large size of the picture and right clib moust to select "get rights info"
The plugin will query the API and will return rights info
The links provided with the info lead to the registration page of the work
Since the plugin is being tested and this is a very basic example of what we plan to achieve it’s possible that in occasions it doesn’t return information. We will be fixing all issues as they appear so feedback us so we can improve your experience. Also notice that this is an open source plugin and you can download the source code to make your own version, improvements and even to create entirely new plugins or applications to communicate with Safe Creative’s API.
You might try the plugin query with this picture
Set the plugin and try with this picture:
September 28th, 2009
Mario Pena
The new bookmarklet is online so you can now register your posts as you write them. All you have to do is visit this page: https://www.safecreative.org/bookmarklet and drag and drop the button you prefer -according to the web browser you are using – to your links toolbar or to your favorites.
Once this has been done, each time you are on an editing page of a blog such as blogger or wordpress, save first your text and then, without leaving the editing page, clic on the Safe Creative register link. A new browser window will open that will take all the information to be registered. Assign the license you prefer and save it.
Once the text is pre-registered and after, you can obtain the html tags to add to it an show how it is protected.
The tools is on beta, so any incidence you can report it through the contact page.
July 8th, 2009
Mario Pena
The New Safe Creative is here and brings quite a few novelties. Maybe the most important is not to be externally seen, because it’s on the internal side. We have changed the whole architecture with the aim of being more agile to bring new features to the site and strengthen the security of registered contents.
Besides this main change, we are going to highlight some of the key changes you can actually see and use. Just mention that in the next months we are going to introduce some very cool features to the site and will be informing as soon as possible.
* Redesign of the site: We have greatly improved the design and usability of the site. Now the browsing is much easier and registering is more intuitive than ever. We might highlight the new home, menus, important changes in the page to upload and register works and the new ways to administrate registered works.
New Safe Creative's home
Public view with work's details
* Customizable public profile: Users now can create their own public space by creating a special link to their public profile. A place show their works and to get feedback from their public. Also they can decide how to be contacted, if the choose to to allow this, of course. They can make their email public or allow only to be contacted through a form.
Now you can have a custom public profile
* New ways to register: Now you can also register by pasting the exact URL from which Safe Creative can download your work. You don’t have to first download it yourself into the computer and then send it to Safe Creative.
All the different ways to upload files together
* New search tools: The search tools are completely new and much faster now. Although during the first days, searches will be limited until all works from past year get indexed, in a few days you will be able to search by the tags added to the contents. Also, when pictures, you will be able to see thumbnails of the images (this feature will start working as soon as the indexation of previously registered works is finished,).
* Use your own licenses: If you have your own customized license you can add it to your account at Safe Creative and register your works with it. Keep in mind it’s very important to have legal advice whenever you want to have a customized license.
Example of how to add your own licenses to your account at Safe Creative
* Batch actions on your registrations: Some times you want to do the same thing to a number of works at a time. Now you will be able to start doing batch procedures to your registered works. And in the future more features will be added.
* New API with semantic technology capabilities: We have added an API so that other projects and programs will be able to openly query Safe Creative’s public database to get in return vital information about works and their rights. This feature will open a new world of possibilities for copyrights in the digital era. The API will be fully operative by the end of July, and will allow copyright queries from desktops, social networks or web browsers with the proper plugins anybody will be able to create. This feature’s will apply to pictures and music first, and the will cover the rest of possible contents aswell as transformations of those contents to track and identify the original one. And all without altering your files, just using recognition patterns!
Asking Safe Creative's API through prototyped plugin for Firefox (coming soon)
Safe Creative answers after getting the image patterns the plugin sent
Same queries can be performe from your own desktop
We will giving you more information in future posts with guides and advices for the new version. Welcome to the next era of copyright registries.
June 10th, 2009
Mario Pena
Hi everybody,
We have greatest news! Next 10th June and starting at 08:00 GMT+2 we are going to proceed to change the version of Safe Creative’s web. We are talking about a major change with big and important improvements we really hope you will enjoy.
Now some details we have to consider during the process:
- During the migration registry services at http://www.safecreative.org will not be avaliable for about 24 hours.
- If you have used digital certificates to identify yourself at the old version you can asign them in the new version.
- We will tell you with another mail as soon as the services are up again.
- During the following days, searches and downloading of works will be disabled until the migration process of all works to the new system is finished.
- If you detect any difficulty or have any suggestion, don’t hesitate to tell us by conctacting through our contact form.
In next communications will tell you about the new features of this version.
Thanks a lot,
Safe Creative’s Team
June 8th, 2009
Mario Pena
Safe Creative is a copyright registry trying to give value to a new paradigm of content creation.
This new paradigm, is our belief, means that the best way to actually protect contents is to be able to deliver together with it information about author and rights that might interact with any program or service maybe on a semantic web way. An online registry is what actually does: Serves information. The more accurate and the more accesible the information the better the protection or “safer” the travel of contents through the Web.
We don’t mean to “protect” meaning not allowing copy, but instead to be able to deliver enough information together with the content to dissuade plagiarists as they realice content is registered and can be tracked and at the same time ease legitimate reuse of it. Doing this for free, of course, is something that might socialize and standardize content registration in the future.
I think this is just a beginning of a new era of digital services, and we are working on some technologies to provide deeper and stronger content identification together with some tools to fairly spread knowledge of those contents. But we are under development of these technologies.
On the other hand, right now our efforts have been conducted to achieve a strong and good content storage and authoriship claim proof. This proofs can be easily used on court if necessary. We are also starting some collaborations for content tracking through the Internet.
If we understand that right now the biggest risk for contents is not to be able to achieve awareness about them, giving tools to allow a safer spreading of them in the Internet is the clue to find the minimal protection needed to ensure those contents will not fall into deadly oblivion.
February 10th, 2009
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