Week 7 Lecture- Creative Commons, Free and Open Source Software
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Here is a video describing Creative Commons.
1. What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university?
Creative Commons is a licensing concept created by Creative Commons that builds upon traditional copyright practices to define possibilities that exist between the standard "all rights reserved" full copyright and public domain "no rights reserved". A Creative Commons license lets you dictate how others may use your work. The Creative Commons license allows you to keep your copyright but allows others to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit and only on the conditions you specify. For online work you can select a license that generates "Some Rights Reserved" or a "No Rights Reserved" button and statement for your published work.
Under the rules of Creative Commons, people wanting to use other people's work must adhere to the creative common licences posted with the original piece of work. The picture below lists the available creative common licences, full descriptions of each licence can be found at Creative Commons Australia website which is the Australian regulator of Creative Commons licences
Under the rules of Creative Commons, people wanting to use other people's work must adhere to the creative common licences posted with the original piece of work. The picture below lists the available creative common licences, full descriptions of each licence can be found at Creative Commons Australia website which is the Australian regulator of Creative Commons licences
2. 3 Examples of works that are licenced under Creative Commons.
This album is the first independent release from Nine Inch Nails following its announcement that it had severed its ties with Interscope Records. The album was released under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-SA), and in a variety of differing packages at various price points, including a US$300 "Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition". ''Ghosts'' was initially released digitally on the official Nine Inch Nails website without any prior advertisement or promotion. Via the official Nine Inch Nails YouTube profile, a user-generated "film festival" was announced, where fans were invited to visually interpret the album's music and post their results. The album was nominated for two Grammy Awards, in the categories "Best Rock Instrumental Performance" and "Best Box Set or Limited Edition Package". These nominations represented the first time music released under a Creative Commons license had been nominated for a Grammy Award.
A short film titled "Big Buck Bunny" created using Creative Commons Lincence's.
Blogger the very technology I'm using to write this blog exists because of Creative Commons Licences
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.
CC Hold Music? Yes, Really.
Fred Benenson, August 20th, 2009
Digium, the parent company that hosts and maintains the open source telephony & PBX project called Asterisk, recently replaced the on-hold music featured in their distributions to CC BY-SA licensed works from OpSound. Using freely licensed CC music in open source projects has always made sense to us, but Digium’s John Todd discusses why they finally made the switch on the company’s blog:In some nations (Australia and France, to pick two that have been brought to our attention) there are some who are claiming that we do not have the rights outlined above, and that our users therefore are in a similar situation where they may be in violation of license terms.John goes on to explain that since CC licenses are easy to use, well defined, and accepted internationally, the choice was clear to them:
This is very far outside of Digium’s ability or interest to manage, nor do we wish to become involved in the protracted series of legal proceedings required to sort out this licensing issue. So we have chosen another path that is more clear to us: we will eliminate the files of questionable license from Asterisk, and replace them with music that has clearly defined and more acceptable licensing terms which are compatible with both the Asterisk license, and with any reasonable redistribution methods that might be used by others who re-package Asterisk.
You would already be using some of the biggest creative commons licence users and not even know it..
think:
WIKIPEDIA!
4. Have a look at Portable Apps ( a pc based application) - provide a brief description of what it is and how yout think this is useful.
Portable apps is a computer software program that is able to run independently without the need to install files to the system it is run upon. Portable apps are commonly used on removable storage devices such as a USB and Cd. Portable apps provide the user with independence. Portable apps allow the user the freedom to manouvre the technological landscape of how they see fit, without restrictions. University students rely many times on USB which is a portable application. It allows us to contain information from our home computers and be brought to university on a simple USB and have the information we need there and then.
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