How to request your sales’liquidation?
Ana Pérez
Add commentJuly 19th, 2011
Detect if someone is using your images
Marta Palacio
Now you can know who is publishing your desings or images without permission in a simple and efficient way.
You only need a Chrome browser (by now it doesn’t work with others) and Google image search.
Open two windows: one with the photography you want to look for, and the other one with the searcher.
Drag the image to the searcher bar and… voilà!
And remember that in order to report your rights and have a proof of authorship, you have the on-line intellectual property registry of Safe Creative.
Add commentJune 30th, 2011
How to register in the U. S. Copyright Office
Marta Palacio
How to register in the U. S. Copyright Office
Add commentJune 14th, 2011
Discover contemporary art with our new partner: Virtualgallery
Mario Pena
We are proud to anounce that another project has started to use our registration services to provided added value to their users. Virtualgallery.com is a very cool startup that allows amazing 3D exploration of virtual galleries.
Just like being in a museum you will be able to browse great creations while listening to high quality music provided by Magnatune.com (oh, yes another partner of us). And the system allows to buy great art in a secure and fun way.
Are you a creator? Do you have great drawings? Are you a collector or a manager? VirtualGallery puts all actors involved in contemporary art closer than ever. Now you can experience the best art right from your computer.
Find out more about VirtualGallery here.
Add commentJune 13th, 2011
Register your works in the U.S. Copyright Office from Safe Creative
Marta Palacio
Now you can register your works in the U.S. Copyright Office, easily from your Safe Creative account.
All copyright registrations are filed on your behalf, in your name and are issued directly to you.
With Safe Creative you can manage all information, security and self-management of copyright of your works from a single service.
U.S. citizens are required to register before filing a lawsuit for copyright infringement. If a work is registered either before the infringement takes place or within 3 months of publication then, in the U.S., the copyright holder is eligible for both statutory damages, which can reach $150,000 per infringement, and attorney’s fees. Even though non-citizens can sue for for copyright infringement in the U.S. without a registration being filed, they are only able to claim actual damages, which is the greater of what the copyright holder lost or the infringer gained from the use of the work. In many cases that amount is effectively zero. So if you might ever have cause to sue in the U.S. you should register your work in a timely manner so that you have all of your rights at your disposal.
Safe Creative charges a modest service fee ($25) plus the cost of the copyright office filing fee of $35, but the free account include a registration service for free (only office filing fee), the premium account offers 3 free register operations per year, and the professional account: 6
- What is and why is interesting for me the U.S. Copyright Office registration?
- What do I have to do and what information should I provide to ease the U.S. Copyright Office registration of my work?
- Special requirements for registration in USCO
6 commentsJune 7th, 2011
The importance of the identification level
Marta Palacio
A user’s identification level shows the information wich has been included in his profile.
To confirm their identity as creator or copyrights owner of the registered works.
There are four identification levels, and from one week ago to confirm a user’s identity who has lost his mail account, we have included address and phone number fields as necessary to reach level 2.
The levels are:
Level 1: Validity and user access to the provided e-mail account has been confirmed.
Level 2: The user as well as his e-mail account, has provided contact information such as address and phone number.
Level 3: The user logs in Safe Creative using a digital certificate issued by a company (at this moment Verisign).
Level 4: The user logs in Safe Creative using a digital certificate issued by a Public Administration (at this moment: Spanish electronic identity card and FNMT digital certificate)
Providing the highest identification level is important not only to make a rigorous authorship proof, but also to be able to provide you access to your account in case you lose your e-mail account.
6 commentsJune 6th, 2011
How to upload a file for evaluation
Marta Palacio
If you want to attract people interested in buying or licensing your work without sharing the full version freely, you should upload a file for evaluation. You can show the first chapters of your novel, the first song of your album, a fragment of your picture, or your photo in low quality: a preview that allows other users to know what they are acquiring.
Learn how to upload it in this tutorial:
Safe Creative: How to upload a file for evaluation
Add commentMay 3rd, 2011
Safe Creative in 5 minutes
Marta Palacio
https://www.safecreative.org/work/1103198762541
Add commentMarch 23rd, 2011
Licensing for Commons shows its support to the Good Samaritan Orphan & Needy School project.
Marta Palacio
We’re going to direct the Licensing for Commons humanitarian help towards those small projects with big dreamsn, and which have it more difficult when looking for help than important NGOs. One of those projects needs urgent help: Good Samaritan Orphan & Needy School (GSON), also known as the “Bunabumali Orphanage Project“.
Answering to the request of its manager and Safe Creative’s friend Emmanuel Norman, and with the approval of MSF, from now on this project is the one which is is going to recieve the humanitarian contributions.
With Licensing for Commons the diffusion of creativity helps altruistic projects aimed at spreading culture freely (CC) or humanitarian actions (GSON).
About Bunabumali Good Samaritan Orphan project
4 commentsMarch 14th, 2011
ForCommons licensing: Copyright solidarity
Marta Palacio
- Allows authors to channel part or all of their copyright income to a non profit organization.
- Médecins Sans Frontières and Creative Commons will be the first organizations to benefit from the system.
Madrid, March 9, 2011 .- Creative Commons, Médecins Sans Frontières and Safe Creative have launched Licensing For Commons a new solidarity licensing system that allows authors to channel part or all of the sales or licensing income of specific works to a solidarity action. Médecins Sans Frontières and Creative Commons will be the first organizations to benefit from the system.
The operative is quite simple: when registering a work in the online copyright certification registry Safe Creative, authors might establish what percentage, if any, of the revenue received by licensing or selling the content will be sent to a worthy cause and to what specific organization. From there on, Safe Creative will send those amounts, once genereated by end users purchases, to the referred organizations.
“We wanted,” – says Juan Palacio, CEO at Safe Creative, – “to help transform the dissemination of creativity into solidarity actions too. Our goal is that the Internet shared creativity might become basic support for non-profits.” At launch, the platform allows to choose between two internationally recognized organizations; one for its fundamental work in promoting the open dissemination and protection of culture, Creative Commons, and another for its outstanting humanitarian work, Médecins Sans Frontières.
The author decides the price per copy of their work or licensing agreements to be payed, and notes how much he or she wants to channel to the non-profit. In line with its own values and principles, Safe Creative does not benefit from the use of its platform for Licensing for Commons, as will donate to the same organization and at the same percentage as the author does the proportional cost of the transaction commission.
“Convinced that there is a new reality regards communication and distribution in the field of copyrighted content,” says Juan Palacio, “we have been the first ones to launch, within the online copyright certification service Safe Creative, a platform to allow direct and independent licensing rights with the content rights holders. Now we endow an innovative dimension of solidarity which we call ‘For Commons’ that, in line with the values of Safe Creative, makes possible the transformation in real tangible solidarity of part of the value that people share on the Internet, as each author determines. ”
Safe Creative is an online copyright certification registry in line with the digital reality and new tendencies. It is a Spanish Internet pioneer project that developed the first platform for registering, reporting and self-independently manage copyrights, and open to all possible rights protection policies. There are already more than half a million works enjoying Safe Creative features and more than 50,000 registered creators and rights holders.
Solidarity creativity in one click.
The system uses the licensing and sale platform of Safe Creative and allows, in only three simple steps, to share creativity and solidarity
Update March 14th 2011: Instead of MSF, donations will be able to be made to GSON (Bunabumali Project, Uganda) as urgent help is required there.
2 commentsMarch 8th, 2011