Frequently Asked Questions about Safe Creative
- What is the Safe Creative?
- What is the difference between Safe Creative and Creative Commons, GPL, etc...
- How can I avoid someone stealing my work from me
- What type of work can I register?
- Can I register a blog?
- What type of registrations can be made in the Intellectual property of Safe Creative?
- What is the registration of work?
- What is the registration of rights?
What is the difference between Safe Creative and Creative Commons, GPL, etc...
Creative Commons or GPL are models of licenses that the authors can adopt instead of establishing just one model in particular, to determine what rights of their work are released or are reserved.
As the author you have personal and patrimonial rights over your work and you may opt for one of these options or any other valid option, defining how these rights are dealt with. The author will always have to prove that he is the author, to be able to make use of these rights, or to avoid copyright infringement by others.
To do this Safe Creative, a free platform for registration and accreditation, supports authors providing legal valid proof.
How can I avoid someone stealing my work from me
Submitting drafts of articles, novels, plans, projects, etc to third parties implies a risk for the author, which on many occasions' results in plagiarism or the infringement of the authors' rights.
In order to defend or demonstrate the condition of author, valid proof must be provided, for example via registration or certificates of registration previously made by the author. By incorporating a stamp on drafts, or finished work stating the author and rights are registered in Safe Creative is a powerful measure of dissuasion.
What type of work can I register?
The intellectual property registry is currently in the testing phase (beta). At the moment the following documents may be registered:
- Literary and scientific work (articles, books, novels)
- Plays
- Musical compositions
- Comics and magazines
- Projects, plans and architectural designs or engineering plans
- Any type of private document that might require a certificate of authority with date and time.
In the future the registry will include all types of creative work subject to rights of intellectual property.
Can I register a blog?
Yes you can register a blog in the Safe Creative Register, but this is a registration with special characteristics, as in reality it is not a registration of work or of an author, but information of rights and the author automatically inherits the work that you publish in the blog, if not otherwise indicated. This is because a blog, from the point of view of the intellectual protection rights is not so much a work but a publication medium that can support one or various works, each of which may or may not be from the same author, and may have the same or different types of licenses.
If you register a blog information is public so that visitors will be able to consult via Safe Creative the identification of the author registered and the license by default of the published contents.
What type of registrations can be made in the Intellectual property of Safe Creative?
In the intellectual property of Safe Creative there are three types of registrations:
- Blogs or web sites, as indicated in the question, Can I register a blog?
- Registrations of works.
- Registrations of rights.
What is the registration of a work?
It is the registration, with the date and time annotation, in the safe Creative register of the work and the name of the author and the indication of the type of work: literary, scientific, art, project, etc. for later reference of certification
What is the registration of rights?
It is the registration with annotation of date and time that the author reserved or yields: recognition, distribution with or without commercial aims, modification, etc. The author of the work can register the type of licensing rights and modify them whenever.
The registration rights can make reference to a pre-defined license of relevance and general knowledge: GPL, LGPL, Creative Commons...