Week 7 Tutespark

Week 7 Tutespark

Try some free software - good examples which are free and easy to download are: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Gimp, Audacity, amsn, pidgin, etc.

Try to use it exclusively for a few days - then decide whether you like it or not! Say why/why not.

I have used AGP anti-virus for a long time, this is free updates regularly and is easy to use. I have not found any issue with it and am happy to use it.
I also use VLC as a media plying software, it covers most current codex and displays the media i wish with no difficulty, I tell all my geek friends and we enjoy the ability to download it when and where it is required.
Also I have Firefox on my desktop I have used this browser for a number of years, I find it easier than explorer and it is more reliable, as it does not experience errors and closures that i have found.

Tutorial Task 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?
This site http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ explains the concept and shows the characteristics of creative commons licenses. An example is

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

I believe being made aware of creative common licencing will allow me to use products to best effect within the legal system and help me in achieving results required for any task. That is, I can find items that will help me show what i desire through using shared creations that I have the right to legally use while acknowledging the creator, also this method will not costing me financially.

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

1) The following YouTube clip is under the CC licience. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA



2) This site http://search.creativecommons.org/# linked to http://www.archive.org/details/the-last-man-on-earth

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Based on the chilling Richard Matheson science fiction Classic "I am Legend" and later remade as "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston. This classic features Vincent Price as scientist Robert Morgan in a post apocalyptic nightmare world. The world has been consumed by a ravenous plague that has transformed humanity into a race of bloodthirsty vampires. Only Morgan proves immune, and becomes the solitary vampire slayer.


This movie is part of the collection: Sci-Fi / Horror

Director: Ubaldo Ragona
Audio/Visual: Mono, Black and White
Keywords: horror; Sci-Fi; Drama
Contact Information: http://shortfilms.tk/

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

3)A down loadable book on this site http://thepiratesdilemma.com/download-the-book at the bottom of the link the CC is clearly visible.

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.

I read over this article at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february06/vandergraaf/02vandergraaf.html
I felt it a good idea to include the abstract as this shows the relationship to the creative common licensing subject.

D-Lib Magazine February 2006 Volume 12 Number 2 ISSN 1082-9873 Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals The Authors' Perspective
	Esther Hoorn University of Groningen, Faculty of Law Maurits van der Graaf Pleiade Management & Consultancy

Abstract This article presents results of a survey undertaken as part of a series of work packages under a joint initiative by JISC and SURF to explore the attitudes of authors in the UK and the Netherlands towards Open Access. The Open Access environment has created a number of entirely new copyright models, which stand in contrast to the traditional academic journals in which the copyright has to be transferred from the author(s) to the journal publisher. The following emerging copyright models in OA journals were identified: a model in which the author keeps the copyright: this was preferred by nearly half of the respondents two models in which the author shares the copyright (with Creative Commons licences): these were preferred by nearly a third of the respondents a model in which the author transfers only the exploitation rights to the journal publisher: this was preferred by a small minority. These and other results seem to reflect a desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals. Libraries and academic institutes are already taking part in the scholarly communication copyright debate and could use these results to align their positions with the academics' views.

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.

Week 6 Tutespark

Who owns the content you put on the internet on various sites?

This includes pictures, video, text, etc?

Think about all the content you upload onto social networking sites - Do you own it?

Who has the right to use your creations?