According to Lecture 7

A shared culture.

http://creativecommons.org/

When I did my 3 minutes video, I used creative common pictures and music. My first expression was not so good. I realized that is difficult to find useful pictures, in useful colors, and appropriate music for my tute task. However, after 30 minutes of my work with this web site, it became easier to find appropriate information, because I understood how to work with this web site, and where I should search the information.


· “Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally”: creative commons.

The main idea of Lecture 7 was on concept of free culture and free division of the contents which takes place within an Internet and as it relates with the copyright in general. One of the examples of such free culture is Creative Commons.

“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.”

Creative Commons was founded in 2001, and since that time, this corporation growth increasingly mainly because it ensure free licenses and other legal instruments to register creative work with freedom which the founder wants that it bore, thus others can participate, repeatedly mix up, use commercially, or any combination of it. So, the main aim of the creative commons is to share the information legally. In 2008 it was estimated 130 million Creative Commons licensed works. The whole item of it, protect the founder from other use of their work, with the purposes of which they did not intend. In addition, the large part of philosophy of the Creative Commons has appeared from users who wanted more freedom with the various computer softwear.

“The Idea that we can voluntarily relax our copyrights in the interests of sharing comes from the Free Software movement.”

· Free and open source software.

There was the time, when computer software, when people are shared the codes between each other. This was the best time for software programs and everything was free. However, during the time, software industry was growing with the high speed, and many restrictions have been made by companies. For instance: Microsoft. So, in 1981 Richard M Stallman started the Free Software foundation. His aim was to create absolutely free software like it was before. He believed that users should be allocated by the right on ' four freedom. In addition users should be able to adapt the program for their own requirements, to operate the program as they like, to extend their changes, to remove copies and finally to have a choice to improve the software. Finally, as I understood Richard Stallman created legal document (GNU), to control Four Freedom which had controlled what you can and can’t do with software.
Nowadays there are such concepts like open software. The main advantage of such software, is that it is free, and you can have specially features in it.

“The name free software is replaced with Open source.”

There are examples of free software (open source): Linux,Firefox,OpenOffice etc.
I never ever used free software on my computer. However, after this lecture I installed free software on my computer, just to find differences. So, I found it interesting to use, to found out new abilities and features which you can’t find in Windows, and it is absolutely free. In some ways, I found it better than Microsoft.

To sum up, the main aim of Creative Commons is that this corporation gave us an opportunity to share information legally. People are uploading their music, pictures, photos, and other staff to show their talent to other people and to look what others are gave to look for. It is interesting, to know that people are uploading their photos from flickr, because they want to share their photos with others people all over the world. This idea is great, and carry peace and sort of friendship in it, mainly because people are share and not steal, and they help each other. In my opinion, Creative Commons is useful website, and I think that I’ll be using it anyway.