Week 7

Research and provide short answers to the following questions. Provide references where applicable.

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

Creative Commons is a non- profit organisation that increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational and scientific content) in “the commons” and the body of the work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing and remixing. Creative Commons organisation provides free, easy-to-use legal tools which give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple standardize way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work.

The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright term from the default of ‘all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved”. Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright and the public domain. Therefore, the license is not an alternative to copyright, by working alongside copyright, you can select the best suit you and modify your copyright terms. They have collaborated with intellectual peroperty experts all around the world to ensure what their licenses work globally.

For further information and terms of the licences, please visit Creative Commons website.

Creative Commons: What is CC?.(2010). Retrieved from

http://creativecommons.org/about/what-is-cc

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

Jamendo is a music website and a community of music authors.

All music on Jamendo is free to download and licensed through one of several Creative Commons licenses or the Free Art License, making it legal to copy and share, as well as to modify and make commercial use of for some, depending on the license. Jamendo allows streaming of all of its thousands of albums in either Ogg Vorbis or MP3 format, and downloads through the BitTorrent and eDonkey networks

There are more than 32,000 albums available for download now on Jamendo. Widely varied music genres and styles include: Dance/Electro, Hip-Hop, Metal, Jazz, Lounge, Pop/Songwriting, and Rock

Jamendo.(2010). Retrieved from http://www.jamendo.com/en

MoveOn is an American non-profit, progressiveor liberal, public policy advocacy group and political action committee which has raised millions of dollars for candidates it identifies as "moderates" or "progressives" in the United States. It was formed in 1998 in response to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

MoveOn.ORG: What is MoveOn™?.(2010). Retrieved from http://www.moveon.org/about.html

Ghosts I–IV is the seventh studio release by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released on March 2, 2008. The team behind the project included Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor, studio-collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder, and instrumental contributions from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew, and Brian Viglione. Reznor described the music of Ghosts as "a soundtrack for daydreams", a sentiment echoed by many critics who compared it with the work of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. The songs are unnamed, and are identified only by their track listing and group number.

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".

Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts I-IV.(2010). Retrieved from

http://ghosts.nin.com/main/home


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.

To summuraise the article I found via ProQuest is about the copyright laws which have been around in the US. In the 20th century, the impact of using, reusing and distribution of media and content on the internet is significant. A new copyright protection named Creative Commons, is led to law restriction on the worldwide internet and a new media culture. A set of licensing tools are standing between the "All Rights Reserved" of traditional copyright and "No Rights Reserved" that is the public domain. Creative Commons is a way to have access to the content, in the spirit of the 21th century and without running afoul of the "all rights reserved" mentality.

Gordon-Murnane, L.. (2010, January). CREATIVE COMMONS: Copyright Tools for the 21st Century. Online, 34(1), 18-21. ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 1957509621).


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.

A portable application (portable app) is a computer software program that is able to run independently without the need to install files to the system it is run upon. They are commonly used on a removable storage device such as a CD, USB flash drive, flash card, or floppy disk.

Portable software is typically designed to be able to store its configuration information and data on the storage media containing its program files.

You can download and entitle the benefits of using portable app from Portableapps.com for free, and it is not confused with software portability where software allows to be compiled for different computing platforms. It is convenience that portable application can be run on any computer systems such as Microsoft Windows XP or Vista, certain version of a Linux distro, etc.