Week 7- Tutorial task

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

Definition of: Creative Commons

An organization that has defined an alternative to copyrights by filling in the gap between full copyright, in which no use is permitted without permission, and public domain, where permission is not required at all. Creative Commons' licenses let people copy and distribute the work under specific conditions, and general descriptions, legal clauses and HTML tags for search engines are provided for several license options.

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=Creative+Commons&i=40468,00.asp

Creative Commons can be relative to my experience at Uni because it gives me freedom to embark on an old idea. I can build on the work of others if i stick to the copyright laws that the creator has set. This would allow me to take an idea further or alter something to make it better, i can experiment with someone else's work legally. Dj's do this quiet often as they remix songs together and create a single song into different genre's whilst obiding the copyright laws. In uni this makes it legal to put my work into practise in hopes of learning and expanding my degree. Appropriating art, using images in my slideshows, post things on my blog, edit music, learn from other creations. Creative Commons.org explains this more clearly..

We provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.

Creative Commons

This video is what its all about

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

#1

#2

#3

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.

http://www.informaworld.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/smpp/section?content=a727322970&fulltext=713240928

This article focus's on copyright laws of folk music and its commercial control. It talks about thelengths a copyright should be restricted to and the rights folk music should have to prevent people changing it completely. It also speaks about the gradual extension of copyright regulation and how it has changed over the years. '1) continuity, whereby the same songs can be found in different places, (2) variation, whereby subtle differences may be found in each manifestation of the song and (3) selection, whereby variants of the song will be judged by the community and accepted and passed on or, if not favoured, discarded.' are the three things a folk song should have. Compilations, infringement and copy right and leasing are all big threats to the folk music industry. They state 'the folk song is, by definition, and as far as we can tell, by reality, entirely a product of plagiarism' and question the right of Creative Commons.

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

(2) An application stored on a USB flash drive that can run on a computer without leaving any trace of itself when the application is finished. It is designed to restore all changed settings when the program is closed. Non-U3 portable applications are typically dependent on a particular brand of USB drive. U3 applications require U3-enabled flash drives.

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Portable Apps allows people to carry information on their USB, ipod or memory card without leaving any traces of it behind when it is disconnected. Portable apps are a free collection of games, computer applications and files that can be put onto a USB for easy access. Its handy when on the go. People can download programmes they want and use them on public computers that wouldn't normally have these programs and when they disconnect the USB all information will be terminated off the public computer.

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