Week 7 Tutorial task

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


Creative Commons is a not for profit organisation that works to increase the level of creativity in 'the commons', which is the public's use for legal distributing, sharing and reusing. Creative Commons provide tools and licences that give individual and corporate creators a chance to copyright their creative work. This can be seen with the term 'all rights reserved' to 'some rights reserved'. This licensing framework could be relevant to my experience at university as it can be used as a tool to protect my creations (art, photography, text) from being illegally used or not represented as my work.
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/62/Creativecommons-informational-flyer_eng.pdf

2. Find 3 examples of works created by creative commons and embed them in your blog.
Three works I found made by Creative Commons are:


Nasty Old People, a swedish film directed by Hanna Skold used on the file sharing site The Pirate Bay. 











The parody sci-fi film the Star Wreck, one in the series of the Finnish Star Trek parody.



The Slip, an album produced by American rock band Nine Inch Nails also used a creative commons licence. This is a clip of one of their songs head down, in their album The Slip. 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_available_under_a_Creative_Commons_License

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.


Michael Baumann explores an insider's guide to Creative Commons. For internet users, the issue of copyright has been a hot topic since the beginning of the Internet. Today, law states that if you create something, it is copyright, which means no one can use it without permission from you. If we think about the internet today, what if we wanted to share this material? Everything on the net today is about sharing and reusing files. Creative Commons comes in, where you are able to partially copyright and people are now able to use your content, but you still get the credit. 


Creative Commons has four principal licensing conditions; Attribution, Share Alike, Noncommercial and No Derivative Works. All of these provide different levels of copyright, depending on what you want. For example, Noncommercial means anyone can copy your work, however no one can use it for commercial purposes. Although, Creative Commons stresses two important points. It is not a replacement for copyright and it may not be covered worldwide. However, it is a useful tool that benefits most internet users.


http://HY8FY9JJ4B.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/summon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=An+Insider%27s+Guide+to+Creative+Commons&rft.jtitle=Information+Today&rft.au=Michael+Baumann&rft.date=2009--1-0-&rft.issn=8755-6286&rft.volume=26&rft.issue=9&rft.spage=15&rft.externalDBID=IFT&rft.externalDocID=1878390111

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.


Portable applications are software programs that you can run from a flash drive or removable drive without installing them. What this means is you can leave your lap top at home and use a client machine (someone else's computer) without leaving any traces on their computer. These have become very popular with all sorts of industries, for example, design, blogging or business purposes. I think Portable Apps can be very useful in different professions, in particular design. Lets say you wanted to visit a potential client, you could run a program like Inkscape and briefly draw something up so they can see your skills and determine if you were the right candidate to create their design.


http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/70-free-useful-portable-applications-you-should-know/