[cc-community] What about Safe Creative? (sorry if off-topic)
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Wed Apr 2 01:36:20 EDT 2008
Ocetalo wrote:
> I'd like to hear your opinions about Safe
> Creative<http://www.safecreative.org/home.shtml>,
> if you've tried it or know about it. I apologize if this is off-topic, but
> and I don't know where else to ask. Of course the same Safe Creative website
> wouldn't be the most objective place.
So, it's a private copyright registry?
Um. I guess that's okay. But doesn't your country have a national
copyright registry?
In the United States, it's the Library of Congress. And I would trust
them a LOT more than "some website I found".
I don't think you have to be a US citizen to register a US copyright, so
even if you aren't, you could probably use the US Library of Congress in
the same way as you would use this private service.
I don't remember how much the registry fee with LoC is. I'm sure it
costs something, so that might be an issue. Otherwise, I can't think why
I would trust a private company like "Safe Creative" to do this task.
So "what I think" is that it's not exactly a scam, but hardly necessary.
There are public institutions that do this job, and they are going to be
much more credible in court (if it comes to that).
Cheers,
Terry
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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
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