Week 7 Lecture summary

The lecture for today had focous on creative common licences and open source software. the lecturer Adam talked about the 3'C. Community----Collaboration--choice. Todays consequences for using someone else's work without their permission, could end with legal repercussions. to make other peoples work available to the public community, Creative Commons was formed, in a attempt to make a middle between the two opposites . CC goal was not to remove copyrights but to make the copyrights law not that strict, and to provide a collaboration of sorts in the online community.

According to the Creative Commons Australia website http://creativecommons.org.au/about Creative Commons is " an international non-profit that provides free licences and tools that copyright owners can use to allow others to share, reuse and remix their material, legally." in other words, anyone who want to share their work, without the hazzel from the copyright law, are free to do so. There is several ways the owner can decide to what extent their work can be used. The original owner must be credited for their work, and the owner can decide whether or not, the work can be used for commercial or non-commercial use.
To best say what CC is, i found this very informative and funny video describing Creative Commons:

The third and final C, Choice. Adam talked about the freedom to choose what free software you can use to fit your needs and recommends. however it must be said that to sell software to another user is illegal, so to fix that problem it was given another name "open sources".

This leads over to this weeks 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"?

I had heard of the software, except from GIPM, it is a free editing program for pictures.

I downloaded the version of the software for Mac users, that off-course took some time. I have always been a fan of editing pictures so this suited me very well. Like it always is for me when it comes to new thing, there is always something that i need to learn. For me the best way of doing that is to search for tutorials on www.youtube.com i typed inn Gimp tutorial and up came this, i found it really helpful and easy explained, after looking at a few tutorial clips a was ready to go. I really recommend this to people like me, not Pro´s on Mac, but like to edit.