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<\/a>\nHello there! This is Collapick calling.<\/p>\n
We are active bloggers and journalists, and we have been working hard since March to make life easier for us \u2013 and for all other bloggers, professional journalists and big media companies out there.<\/p>\n
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We have created a tool called (yeah, you guessed) Collapick<\/strong>. It\u2019s a software tool enabling the use of Creative Commons material simply and efficiently.<\/p>\n Let me start by praising Creative Commons: They\u2019re awesome. The bad news is, finding and using Creative Commons licensed material depends on the user\u2019s own knowledge and expertise. There are many different levels of license agreements, and a user unfamiliar with the subject may not understand them thoroughly.<\/p>\n Then the good news: we have solved the problem. Collapick enables the use of Creative Commons material respecting the terms of the license and without the user having to become familiar with the nuances of various licenses. Collapick helps the user to find Creative Commons material, pick them from any website and use them on a site or a blog.<\/p>\n Now, to make this a bit more clear, let\u2019s meet our friends (fine, our secret identities) The Blogger and The Professional Journalist.<\/p>\n The Blogger<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m a blogger. I started telling about my life and interests to my friends, but nowadays I have almost 1500 followers. Isn\u2019t that great!<\/p>\n I\u2019d like my posts to be as nice as possible, so I\u2019m adding lots of photos and videos. I\u2019m not much of a photographer, so I prefer to use pictures by someone who actually knows what (s)he\u2019s doing. I don\u2019t want to pay for those photos, so I use stuff published under the Creative Commons license. But I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s not easy!<\/p>\n First, I need to find my photo. Sure, it\u2019 easy to find a Creative Commons licensed picture of a cat, but if you need, say, a photo of this season\u2019s white and blue tunic with khaki pants, it suddenly gets much harder.<\/p>\n I finally found my photo! Now I have to add it to my blog. I copy, save, then go to my blog, add, and finally publish the photo. It\u2019s not rocket science, but I\u2019m wondering if this could be done a bit faster.<\/p>\n Oh, yeah, before I publish, what were those license agreements again? Crap, can\u2019t really member what these symbols mean. It says I can \u201cadapt\u201d, \u201cmodify\u201d or \u201cbuild on\u201d, but what does that<\/em> mean? Should I credit someone? What kind of symbols do I have to add to my blog post? I mean, how am I supposed to remember what all of these tiny pictures are about?<\/p>\n I don\u2019t really want to go through all those agreements again. Should I just use the photo and hope no one will notice I\u2019m breaking the copyright?<\/p>\n Luckily I can use Collapick.<\/strong> Let\u2019s log in!<\/p>\n First, Collapick will help me to find the photo I need. It\u2019s not just a meta search engine, such as Creative Commons\u2019 own Search<\/a> but a database of Creative Commons material (text, photos, video).<\/p>\n There, I found my photo! I don\u2019t have to save it to the computer or copy and paste the photo\u2019s web address to my blog. I simply click the photo, and voil\u00e0! Collapick added the photo to my blog.<\/p>\n But not just the photo. Collapick also automatically added all the information that needed to go with the photo. I don\u2019t have to keep adding and remembering all the Creative Commons licenses. Collapick will recognise the license and add all the necessary info to my blog.<\/p>\n The Professional Journalist<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m a professional journalist. Our magazine has 50\u00a0000 readers and almost twice as much people will visit our site every month. We use freelance photographers, but we also use photos published under Creative Commons. I just hope it would be easier to find and use it.<\/p>\n Luckily I can use Collapick.<\/strong> Let\u2019s log in!<\/p>\n I do the same things that my pal The Blogger did. Collapick helps me to find and add photos to our site. So there. We believe that simplifying complex license terms will interest both media businesses and private individuals. A user unfamiliar with licenses may use Collapick to exploit Creative Commons materials reliably and within the bounds of copyright law, letting the software do the work. The amount of free, readily available information increases, it becomes easier to use and the possibilities for communication improve significantly.<\/p>\n What have we been up to since March? Hello there! This is Collapick calling. 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\nThe amount of material published under Creative Commons license grows at an incredible pace, and an increasing number of commercial media and private individuals make use of Creative Commons material.<\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nThere\u2019s a lot of good stuff there! Even the very big media companies know that. Many of them, like BBC<\/a>, NBC<\/a> and Al Jazeera<\/a>, use and produce more and more Creative Commons licensed material.<\/p>\n
\nWhen I signed in, I told Collapick I\u2019m going to use the photos on my magazine\u2019s website. If I try to use a photo I should not use \u2013 for example, one that can be used only for non-commercial purposes \u2013 Collapick warns me. This way I don\u2019t accidentally break the copyright without noticing.<\/p>\n
\nMostly coding. We have three people working with the code and one doing the graphic design. Testing of the second version has been going on for a month now, but we still want to make many improvements before we introduce Collapick to the big audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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