Week 5 ICT Tools - Flickr (Creative Commons)

Week 5 Entry

This week in the e-learning tutorial the following tools were examined:

-Ning
-Voice tread using creative commons approved Flickr
-Incompetech (royality free music)
-Media fire






Also in the tutorial this week the legal, safe operations online were highlighted as a matter of high importance.





In this entry the following tool will be elaborated upon:-

• Flicker

What is Flickr?

Flickr is a tool that allows the user to upload, edit or manipulate the images, organise the images into categories and much more.

This ICT tool has an editing function to manipulate the image which is a similar attribute as the Picnik tool.

Here are some other abilities that this tool possesses:-

• Share photos with family, friends and the online community.





• make prints, calling cards, photo-books, slideshow-DVDs, postage stamps and much more.

Flickr and the creative commons

Creative commons is a nonprofit organisation that increases sharing and collaboration. The creative commons give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The creative commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of "all rights reserved" to "some rights reserved."

What is the meaning of Some Rights Reserved?

Creative commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright and the public domain. From all rights reserved to no rights reserved. Creative commons licenses help you to keep your copyright while allowing certain uses of your work.

How many and what are the creative common licenses?

There are six main licences offered when choosing to publish your work with a Creative Commons license. The six licences start with the most accomodating type of that can be chosen to the most restrictive.

1) Attribution

2) Attribution Share Alike

3) Attribution No Derivatives

4) Attribution Non-Commercial

5) Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

6) Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

What is the meaning to the licences -

Attribution means-

others are able to copy, distribute, display and perform your copyrighted work - and deravative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.

Share Alike means-

others are able to distribute derivative works only under a license that governs your work.

Noncommercial

other are able to copy, distribute, display and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only.

Derivative Works means-

others copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Thanks for reading muy

Rambling Rose

References

http://creativecommons.org/