week 7 tutorial

1.
What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university
Creative Commons describe themselves like this;

"Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.
We provide 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".

For me studying in the field of psychology, creative Commons is to some extent not relevant, but if i was studying something more creative like media or something, i would have gained a lot from using things that is creative commons licensed.

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

the first one i found was SpinXpress, its a search engine that allows you to search within CC licenses.



the second i found was the ever famous band Radioheads song "house of cards", made a music video using data from Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License on the Google Code site.


The third CC work i found was a parody of Star Wars called "star wreck" its a very simple film, the first one made all the way back in 1992. They can all be found under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercials licence.




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.
Portable Apps is a computerbased software, which can be applied in various technological gadgets such as USB-pens and PDAs. These are "lite" versions of your favourite computer applications, and are very useful in the way that you can bring these programs wherever you go.