Week 7 - Creative Commons

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1. What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university?

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation who made a site which allows people to share their work and build upon the works of others, with the rules of copyright. They provide absolutely free licenses so that the creator still gets credit for his or hers work, but can share their work, remix it or use their work commercially. It is relevant to my own experience at university because it gives me the freedom to share my work with others and use others work with mine. Without the copyright or plagiarism issues.

2. Find 3 examples of works created by creative commons and embed them in your blog.

 The first example is taken from redbubble.com and the artist who created this artwork is; Natalie Perkins. This artwork has been made into t-shirts, greeting cards, matted prints, laminated prints, mounted prints, canvas prints, framed prints and posters. However, the license states that this work must not be built upon, altered or transformed.  

This is the second example - the art school monster, created by Kirsty Hall . This was found from google images and can be found on kirstyhall.co.uk.

The third and final example is of John Wood who decided to release all the music, cover art, promotional text, mix-stems, sheet-music, and lyrics under a CC license. Here you can of course see the cover art.

 

3. Find an academic article which discusses creative commons using a database or online journal. Provide a link to and a summary of the article.

"Information Resources: Creative Commons: An Opportunity to Extend the Public Domain"
Citation: Schloman, B. (October 2003). Information Resources Column: "Creative Commons: An Opportunity to Extend the Public Domain." Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. Available: www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/Columns/InformationResources/CreativeCommonsAnOpportunitytoExtendthePublicDomain.aspx

Summary; The public domain—those property rights that belong to society at large without the restrictions of copyright—has been diminished by copyright legislation and a recent Supreme Court decision. Copyright law is intended to protect the rights of creators for a period of time, after which works pass into the public domain where others can freely use them. However, recent extensions of the length of time a copyright is in effect and the fact that all works are now automatically awarded protection when created serve to curtail what actually moves into the public domain. The result is that the balance between protecting the rights of creators and publishers and the needs of society to insure progress in the sciences and arts has been lost. Believing that many individual creators would not elect to have all the copyright provisions the law automatically bestows, the Creative Commons was founded to provide a legal mechanism for individuals to select the rights they wish to maintain and those that they are willing to cede to others. The goal is to make more information available to the public within a "creative commons" in a way that complements copyright law.

Link:
http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/Columns/InformationResources/CreativeCommonsAnOpportunitytoExtendthePublicDomain.aspx 

4. Have a look at Portable Apps (a pc based application) – provide a brief description of what it is and how you think this is useful.

An application which provides the luxury of having all your pc programs with you at all times. Such as emails, bookmarks and whatever else that is needed to be used on any pc, any time without leaving personal data behind. This is clearly useful as it is free and so convenient for anyone who needs their stuff with them at all times.  Not only that, but this program works with any software that the pc has installed or a hard drive, usb stick - you name it. 

Resources:

http://creativecommons.org/about/

http://www.redbubble.com/people/definatalie/art/1336482-2-i-loved-cupcakes-before-they-were-cool# 

http://kirstyhall.co.uk/2010/03/12/art-school-monster/

http://creativecommons.org/audio/

http://portableapps.com/

http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/Columns/InformationResources/CreativeCommonsAnOpportunitytoExtendthePublicDomain.aspx