"Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation that provides 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.
CreativeCommons.org
This can be useful for the uni experience because it gives us more freedom to use parts of other peoples ideas and build upon them to create something that shows our own creativity based on the idea of others.
Q2
One of Creative Commons creations is the Web SitCom " Where are the Joneses?" This is an online comedy based on a woman that is the result of a sperm donation and finds out she has 27 siblings. We follow her on her journey to find all 27. First episode from YouTube:
Another product under the CC licencing is the group blog Boing Boing. This is a video from their last post;
The third CC work I found is a series of films made as a parody of Star Trek, called Star Wreck. The first one is from 1992 and is a really simple, animated version compared to the latest one which have real actors in it.
Q3
http://search.informit.com.au.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/fullText;dn=174541;res=AEIPT
Summary
In this article, Fiona Migan writes about how schools can benefit from Creative Commons and describes CC as a "progressive approach to copyright". Under this types of licensing, the schools can use peoples creations such as textbooks, filmclips and music without breaking the law. Schools can use parts of creations despite "All Rights Reserved", but this involves a lot of rules and restrictions such as a set number of pages from a book, or only a certain percentage of somebody's work. Type of work and when it was created decides how long these copyrights apply.
The creator determines for how long the creation is bound by copyright, and after this set time it becomes public and receives the tag "No Rights Reserved". One example of this is the song Waltzing Matilda.
Creative Commons realised the wide range from something tagged with All Rights Reserved to No Rights Reserved, and today it's 6 main licenses in use;
- Attribution Non-commercial No derivatives ("Free advertising" - most restrictive)
- Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (remix, tweak, build upon - derivative works licensed same way and credit to the creator)
- Attribution Non-commercial (Same as above, except derivative works does not need to be licensed in same way)
- Attribution No Derivatives (Unchanged and in-whole redistribution with credit to creator)
- Attribution (Most accommodating of licenses)
Q4
Portable apps is lite versions of their "mother software" on our computers. They give us the opportunity to bring all our favorite programs and even our own settings, wherever we go.
http://portableapps.com/
It is very useful in several ways. One example is that we can sync our laptops with our smart phones, and all we need is the phone in our pockets when we're out and about and we still have all the information we need. We can plan our lives at home, and still keep track by using our phones, or even our portable hard-drives, Ipods & USB flash drives.
As a BlackBerry user I can check my email and Facebook on the go, and browse the web anytime I need it. Even though it's moderated versions of the original software, it's always built in a way that we hardly ever notice the difference.
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