What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university?
Creative Commons: (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[1] The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy to understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons license. This simplicity distinguishes Creative Commons from an all rights reserved copyright. Creative Commons was invented to create a more flexible copyright model, replacing "all rights reserved" with “some rights reserved”. Wikipedia is one of the notable web-based projects using one of its licenses.
The organization was founded in 2001, with support of the Center for the Public Domain. The first set of copyright licenses were released in December 2002. In 2008, there were an estimated 130 million works licensed under Creative Commons. Creative Commons has been embraced by many as a way for content creators to take control of how they choose to share their intellectual property.
Creative commons is relevant to university study as it allows for peoples essays and journal articles to be easily accessed and viewed for future assignments.
- Möller Erik, The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License, in Open Source Jahrbuch 2006.
- Plotkin, Hal (11 February 2002). "All Hail Creative Commons: Stanford Professor and Author Lawrence Lessig Plans a Legal Insurrection". SFGate.com.
- Schloman, Barbara F. (13 October 2003). "Creative Commons: An Opportunity to Extend the Public Domain". Online Journal of Issues in Nursing.
- Stix, Gary (March 2003). "Some Rights Reserved". Scientific American 288: 46. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0303-46.
- Weitzman, Jonathan B., and Lawrence Lessig. "Open Access and Creative Common Sense." Open Access Now, 10 May 2004
- Creative Commons home page
Find 3 examples of works created by creative commons and embed them in your blog.
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 app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your own PC. And when you unplug the device, none of your personal data is left behind. http://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app
I guess the initial benefit of portable apps is that it is 100% free, it allows people to have access to their computer (in a sense) without having to carry around their PC. It means that you could bring all of your stuff to uni on one USB and work from their. allowing quick easy access anywhere any time.
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