Week 7 - Tute Task

This weeks Tute Task is to answer the following questions:

1. What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university?

Creative commons is like copyright, but you are allowed to reproduce someone else's work as long as they are credited properly. This is extremely relevant to university as we use a lot of referencing in our assignments, and using a source that has creative commons is much easier than using a source that is just copyrighted.
http://creativecommons.org.au/learn-more/licences

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

I know things on Wikipedia should be taken with a grain of salt, however in this case it pointed my toward three examples of works created by creative commons (and you can view the film there!):
Elephants Dream
Al Jazeera also has broadcast footage created by creative commons. This was confirmed in the tutorial today. You can find them at: http://cc.aljazeera.net
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_available_under_a_Creative_Commons_License
The last work I found was a journal article I found on JSTOR:
California Law Review
Vol. 92, No. 5 (Oct., 2004), pp. 1331-1373

Published by: California Law Review, Inc.

http://www.jstor.org.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/stable/3481419

3. Find an academic article which discusses creative commons using a database or online journal. Provide a link to and a summary of the article.

I searched for AGES to find an article, and eventually came across this one: An Insider's Guide to Creative Commons.
It talks about how before creative commons, something copyrighted could not be reproduced somewhere else no matter what. It talks about the four conditions you can apply to your creative commons: attribution, share alike, noncommercial, and no derivative works. It simplifies the idea, and helped me get my head around it.

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 pretty much a collection of computer programs (things like the Internet, graphics, games and office programs) that you can load onto a USB and take anywhere with you. This is good when you travel a lot (or any time really). You don't need to drag around a laptop with you, and you can save things without leaving anything behind on the host computer. I've never even heard of it before, but I'm pretty keen to download it now!

These are my answers for this weeks Tute Task, thanks!

Emily