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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
Mario Pena
A new Dinosafe’s comic thanks to Ramón Redondo from www.geekinlove.com.
February 3rd, 2009
Mario Pena
Thanks to Dealsend for the translation
February 3rd, 2009
Mario Pena
Hi all! Some of you have already seen it, but we’ve changed a couple of things in Safe Creative as a prior step for the next version of the web due in very few months.
For instance now you can put tags relevant to your registered contents.
Now you can register works with various pseudonims associated to your account.
Now there’s a page in which you can see us, the team that try to make Safe Creative match your requests.
For users using contents of other creators now you can get a work certificate. This way you will have a proof of the license that applied to a work at an specific time, avoiding misunderstandings in the future in the case the author decides to change the license of that work. This way we provide a strong added value to give reliability for further use of contents.
Now bulk registry of works goes out of labs and can be done directly from the registry page.
The tags to mark the works can be directly downloaded from the list of registered items. Now you don’t need to access each item to get them.
Talking about tags, now you can add descriptive tags to the contents you register.
Also, if you want to find works registered in Safe Creative you can use our search box in our home. You can try this link too. Also you can try this way: http://www.safecreative.org/search/terminos
If you have any trouble, please don’t hesitate to contact us here.
January 8th, 2009
Mario Pena
Let me introduce Dinosafe, our mascot that will explain to you some of the advantages of Safe Creative. Here’s the first comic by Ramon Redondo:
November 10th, 2008
Safe Creative
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
Safe Creative
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
Safe Creative
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
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