Mario Pena
Safe Creative will represent i-comp.org at a workshop on best practices around the copyright in the digital age at FICOD 09. We will discuss the importance of the existence of online registries to communicate on open standards to help a better understanding of authorship rights in a positive way.
The interaction, the updated information and mutual respect between creators and users is the key to build a digital environment in which all existing sensitivities will fit.
You have the program here.
It will be on November 19th at 18:45 and will last approximately one hour.
November 11th, 2009
Mario Pena
Hi all,
There is much to tell and little time, so we are going to update you with some of the developments and news around Safe Creative.Hope you like them!
* Lets begin by commenting that we have our open API running so you can create any type of application to register and / or consult our registry. To encourage developers to create applications to interact with Safe Creative we just launched a contest. You can check the rules here.
* To illustrate its basic operation we have also created a test plugin for Firefox to identify the author and rights of registered pictures when found in the Web not depending on the metadata. Works for verbatim copies but soon cropped and resized pictures will be identified too.
* Bubok.es, the leader books self-publishing platform in Spain, has just incorporated into its system the possibility for them to register their works in Safe Creative directly from their control panel. The innovative literary project uses our open APIs as websites such as magnatune.com and jamendo.com are already doing for music tracks.
* Advanced searches and counters directly on “My works” view. Now you can search for specific contents through the advanced search feature and see the number of views and certificate request of your works without having to enter in each work’s page.
* After several requests of photographers we can tell you that now thumbnails are also experimentaly generated for RAW files, so if you want you can try to register this kind of files too and see how it works.
* There are more things, but we know you are busy. We encourage you to browse our blog and follow our Twitter updates.
October 20th, 2009
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE SAFE CREATIVE API’S CONTEST (.pdf)
1. ORGANIZING COMPANY
The organization of the contest for the development of programs, software or plugins for Safe Creative’s API is promoted by Safe Creative S.L., with ID Number B99161739 and legal address in Saragossa, at Calle Bari 39, Edificio “Binary Building”.
2. OBJECT OF THE CONTEST
Safe Creative is an open platform for copyright registration and information. Safe Creative presents a new access means to the system: an API (Application Programming Interface) or interface that shall be used by other programs and systems in order to render certain operations relating to the automatic registration and consultancy of Safe Creative’s data base.
We want to celebrate the launch of this innovative system to register and consult the works deposited at Safe Creative, with a contest among the best programs rendering operations of registration or consultation with Safe Creative’s registry through its API, i.e., registration through third parties’ software, content management systems, remote look up to the works’ rights or authors, etc.
3. ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS
The participation in this contest means the fully and unconditional acceptance of the present binding terms. The fulfillment of the requirements established herein is compulsory to accept the candidates as valid participants.
4. PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS
Any person included and over 18 years old, who accepts the present terms, may be accepted as a participant, excluding the employees of the organizing company.
The participant must be the author or right holder of all the intellectual property rights over the software subject of this competition or, in case it is partially based on third parties’ code, she shall have the duly authorization of the right holder in order to participate in this competition (for example, through the so-called “Open Source Licenses”).
5. DURATION
The competition will start on October 1st, 2009 at 00:00 GMT and will end on December 31st, 2009 at 23:59 GMT.
6. DELIVERY OF THE WORKS
Users interested on participate in this competition must fill out correctly the form available at Safe Creative’s blog (http://en.safecreative.net and http://labs.safecreative.net) and send it to the email address apicontest09@safecreative.org.
In the form, the participants must provide the URL where the candidate’s project will be published, or must send along with the form the source code and the compiled binary, with an installable or executable file.
7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The participant guarantees that the software sent to Safe Creative is original and, thus, does not infringe third parties’ rights (including but not limited to Intellectual Property Rights, Trademarks, Patents, etc.). Therefore, the participant shall indemnify and hold Safe Creative harmless from any claims, damages, expenses, loss or liability of any kind or nature, brought by any third party for the infringement of his legitimate rights.
All the works must bear a GPL-License (from the Free Software Foundation) on any of its versions or any other license that permits the free and open availability of the source code of the project, including the permission to make derivative works based on it.
The work must include the text of the license, whether it is published or sent directly to Safe Creative, along with the authors involved in the project.
A breach of these requirements will mean the non-participation or the expulsion of the candidate from the competition.
Safe Creative will make available, when tested, all the candidates works; the projects will be available respecting each license at Safe Creative’s download area, at the URL facilitated by the participant, or in any other place that Safe Creative might decide in the future.
8. PROHIBITIONS
It is strictly prohibited the deliverance of malicious software, viruses, Trojans, or any other piece of software that render concealed functions or non-related with the purposes stated in Point 1, or that, in any way, could harm computer systems, hardware or could violate the binding laws. The breach of this rule will mean the unconditional disqualification of the participant and the reservation of taking legal actions against him.
Safe Creative reserves its right to test, compile and analyze the functioning of the work before publishing it on its website, and before considering it valid for the competition, in order to verify that it comply with the rules stated herein.
9. PRIZES
The prizes are the ones listed below, which will not be exchangeable or refundable:
1.Computer Sony Vaio W11S1E/T
2.Console PS3 Slim 120 GB
3.Portable Console GP2X Wiz
The author will be the sole responsible for the tax obligations related with the prize.
10. JURY, CRITERIA AND JUDGMENT
The Jury will be formed by the Safe Creative’s Technical Team.
The criteria to evaluate the work will be the following:
1.To Simplify or make easier the registration procedure to authors and creators.
2.To provide the knowledge of the rights and the authorized-uses of the works.
3.Originality of the concept: new uses and possibilities on the online content distribution, which may be compatible with the uses of the “Copyright” and “Copyleft” systems.
The jury judgment will be published on January 15th, 2010, at the Safe Creative’s blog (http://es.safecreative.net and http://en.safecreative.net)
The decision of the jury cannot be appealed.
If under the jury’s opinion none of the participant work reaches the standard level of quality, the prize will not be given in whichever category it may be.
11. DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRIZES.
The company will contact the winners through the email address provided on the application form, in order to communicate the prize and arrange the shipment.
The shipment fees for the prizes will be carried by the organizing company.
12. PUBLICATION OF THE WINNERS’ IDENTITIES.
The winners hereby accept the disclosure and therefore the publication of their names and last names on the different media that Safe Creative may consider appropriate.
13. PERSONAL INFORMATION.
The personal data received by Safe Creative from the participants will be included in an automated file property of Safe Creative and treated under the existing legislation in data protection. Participants’ personal information will be used by Safe Creative to carry out the present promotion.
Participants expressly authorize Safe Creative to inform them, through the email, of new services, promotions and commercial actions that the company may organize. The rights of opposition, access, modification or cancelation of these data will be carried out through a written application to Safe Creative, to the email address info@safecreative.net.
14. JURISDICTION AND GOVERNING LAW.
This contest is regulated under the Spanish Law. Safe Creative and the participants expressly renounce to any other jurisdiction but the Spanish one, the Spanish Tribunals will be chosen for any dispute that may arise from the present promotion.
October 16th, 2009
Mario Pena
Hi all, some of you are worried becasue of not getting notification mails. This is due a problem with our mail server we are trying to fix right now. We expect this will be working right again in a couple of days. You can be updated here and in our twitter channel at http://www.twitter.com/safecreative
We are sorry for any inconvenience.
EDIT: Most probably the problem will be solved around 19th Monday and 20th Tuesday.
October 14th, 2009
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
Past week we have been at the Digital Content Distribution Seminar by Erich Pommer Institute in collaboration with Tabakalera and Media in San Sebastian, Spain.
This has been a chance to explain the role free online copyright registries like Safe Creative can play in today’s digital challenge. During the event we have been in close contact with movie and TV related professionals sharing experiences and views. After the seminar finished we also joined the first Digital Audiovisual Forum also in San Sebastian as a preamble to the International Film Festival of San Sebastian.
During this summits we talked about legal frameworks, new business models, different visions about customer and citizen behaviours and the new situation regards social networks and participatory culture.
It is real hard to summarize all the contents and ideas we shared, but we keep some interesting impressions and feelings we want to share in form of our particular conclusions.
Let us share this general conclusions:
- People using new techs and downloading through not controlled channels without paying money are here to stay. Generally talking there are two ways to face this fact; one being there’s nothing we can or should do, and the other is that there’s a need to fight by all means against it. However definition about what is piracy is still unclear and this affects those of us who fight real piracy, plagiarism and people selling other’s stuff without permission. Maybe we will have to start changing or using other names for different behaviours.
- Three strikes policies are no good for today and tomorrows companies images. Far from dissuading or teaching this policies have more risk and costs than advantages. Besides, a lot of the new wave of professional content creators believe that criminalizing their customers and potential customers is bad policy by all means. To correctly educate we need positive values, not negative ones.
- Above all, everybody concluded that we have to create new business models to capture people’s attention instead of fighting them as if they where plain criminals. Actually they are fans and potential customers.
- To believe that Internet is a mere exploitation window might be the next big mistake of entertainment industry. Internet, as an extension of reality is therefore real and turns out to be the environment, what surrounds today’s world linking all the possible and aspects of it. We have to understand it and focus all the steps of entertainment industry business as intimately related even merged with the Internet.
- Involve people in the creation and distribution process to teach them and make them aware of it’s complexity but in a positive way is a key for success.
- Users are willing to pay, but mostly for unique services related to the content. Understanding this we can offer unique premium contents and services by engaging customers through the contents we used to sell in the past century.
Here is our presentation:
http://www.safecreative.org/work/0909234574267
September 24th, 2009
Ana Pérez
- Jamendo is a music share community which configures a perfect platform for artists to spread their work on a free and independent manner.
- With this agreement, Jamendo’s artists will be able to enjoy a highly legal protection and will offer through the Internet semantic information of their rights using the innovative technology offered by Safe Creative.
Madrid, September 3rd, 2009.
Safe Creative has announced a new deal with Jamendo, the biggest Internet based platform of music distribution, which recently included within its platform the automatic registration of its music on Safe Creative, offering to its artists the legal benefits and the online information of the rights registered at the Safe Creative’s Copyright Registry.
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September 3rd, 2009
Mario Pena
Right now the only digital certificate that can be used in Safe Creative is the one included in the electronic Spanish ID. The service is under testing. Here’s a link to the tutorial in Spanish.
In the following weeks and months we are going to include more digital certificates and will therefore prepare another tutorial showing it in English.
To keep updated about the works progress don’t hesitate to follow us at http://www.twitter.com/safecreative
Hope to be back with the new tutorial as soons as possible.
August 10th, 2009
Mario Pena
28th July we will perform a maintenance stop of Safe Creative’s web around 8:00 – 10:00 UTC. This stop will last about two hours. Sorry for any incovenience.
If you want to be updated around this issues, follow us at Twitter: http://twitter.com/safecreative
July 27th, 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
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