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.

Magnatune

Jamendo

Collaborations

Creative Commons

Tallersdemusics

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.

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.

Many of you might have noticed some changes in Safe Creative. With some delay we want to go through some of them, but first we wish to clarify that professional features are additional and optional to the free of charge basic registration. During testing period to load credits to acquire these features is also free of charge.

You might be interested to learn about a specific case of practical usefulness of early content registration in Safe Creative. A novelist has been able to demonstrate her authorship against a subsequent registration in an official copyright registry thanks in part to Safe Creative. She had been able to previously and comfortably register her novel as soon she finished creating so an early authorship proof.

There are new advanced features that enable users to perform certain actions and they have these characteristics: 1) to acquire the functionality you only need to exchange it for a few credits you can get free of charge during testing period 2) Having these features allow you to perform certain actions for a year; past that time you can no longer perform these additional actions unless you re-contract the service 3) The works are still accessible and remain with the changes made even if you don’t have the advanced features activated in your account.

As many of you have requested, we have included the possibility of self identification with two new digital certificates, Verisign (international) and FNMT (Treasury of Spain)

We have posted the winners of our API Contest. Soon you’ll have new  and easy ways to make your registration at Safe Creative. Stay tuned!

We are very excited to inform that we have just signed a partnership agreement with The ElCosmonauta.es, one of the first and best crow-funding movie projects worldwide, which entrusts the registration of his film and many of its contents to Safe Creative. We want to encourage you to go out and become producers of this fantastic project from just 2 euros.

Also we wish to advance that we have signed an agreement of future close cooperation with Trourist.com. Trourist is a global social network which tries to reduce the gap between tourists and locals. Travelers from all over the world, collaborate to make the most of the knowledge shared by those who don’t want to come up looking like Joe Tourist in their upcoming trips.

We take this opportunity to remind you that if you use customized licenses you need to extreme caution and make sure that the license is written by someone with expert knowledge of legal issues around copyright law. If you add licenses found on the Internet make certain you can use it and that they are rigorous. Put the link where the text of the license can be found and copy paste the text of the license itself in the box we provide in the form. If you have any doubt look for legal advice.

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.

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

1st prize: José Pascual Ortiz Sanchez
With his proposal: SafeBook
What to point out?: A great application for Facebook, therefore with great projection which allows registration of any file besides images in the social network. The product is well documented and has a clear code with comments.
He will get a Sony Vaio W11S1E/T

2nd Prize: Daniel Herrero Davila
With his proposal: Zend PHP Wrapper
What to point out?: This is a complete wrapper for a especially important framework. The code is well documented and clear. Includes illustrative usage examples.
He will get a PS3 Slim 120 GB

3rd Prize: Alberto Luis Gimeno Brieba
With his proposal: Work Shaver
What to point out?: Simplifies the selection of the type of license. It has a very good presentation and can tie in to social networks. Good usability and integration with the operating system. Creates an API in Objective-C.
Will win a portable Console GP2X Wiz

We also want to thanks and congratulate the other participants for their contributions and hard work. We will comment some of the most prominent of them in coming posts.

The jury has been composed by:

David Castanon (Safe Creative Technical Director)
Jorge Guillen (Safe Creative Software Engineer)
Manuel Polo (Safe Creative Software Engineer)
Pablo Carranza (Safe Creative Software Engineer)

So if you have a couple of minutes and wish to contribute to this great project that helps creators and content users to respect their respective interests in the digital ecosystem, don’t hesitate to visit this link to make a donation no matter how small: https://support.creativecommons.org/donate

And of course, we all wish you a happy New Year 2010