Mario Pena
It has been incredibly difficult to pick the best ones, but after many hours of deliberation we can announce the winners of the contest for applications and plug-ins for Safe Creative’s API. And are:
1st prize: José Pascual Ortiz Sanchez
With his proposal: SafeBook
What to point out?: A great application for Facebook, therefore with great projection which allows registration of any file besides images in the social network. The product is well documented and has a clear code with comments.
He will get a Sony Vaio W11S1E/T
2nd Prize: Daniel Herrero Davila
With his proposal: Zend PHP Wrapper
What to point out?: This is a complete wrapper for a especially important framework. The code is well documented and clear. Includes illustrative usage examples.
He will get a PS3 Slim 120 GB
3rd Prize: Alberto Luis Gimeno Brieba
With his proposal: Work Shaver
What to point out?: Simplifies the selection of the type of license. It has a very good presentation and can tie in to social networks. Good usability and integration with the operating system. Creates an API in Objective-C.
Will win a portable Console GP2X Wiz
We also want to thanks and congratulate the other participants for their contributions and hard work. We will comment some of the most prominent of them in coming posts.
The jury has been composed by:
David Castanon (Safe Creative Technical Director)
Jorge Guillen (Safe Creative Software Engineer)
Manuel Polo (Safe Creative Software Engineer)
Pablo Carranza (Safe Creative Software Engineer)
January 15th, 2010
Mario Pena
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE SAFE CREATIVE API’S CONTEST (.pdf)
1. ORGANIZING COMPANY
The organization of the contest for the development of programs, software or plugins for Safe Creative’s API is promoted by Safe Creative S.L., with ID Number B99161739 and legal address in Saragossa, at Calle Bari 39, Edificio “Binary Building”.
2. OBJECT OF THE CONTEST
Safe Creative is an open platform for copyright registration and information. Safe Creative presents a new access means to the system: an API (Application Programming Interface) or interface that shall be used by other programs and systems in order to render certain operations relating to the automatic registration and consultancy of Safe Creative’s data base.
We want to celebrate the launch of this innovative system to register and consult the works deposited at Safe Creative, with a contest among the best programs rendering operations of registration or consultation with Safe Creative’s registry through its API, i.e., registration through third parties’ software, content management systems, remote look up to the works’ rights or authors, etc.
3. ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS
The participation in this contest means the fully and unconditional acceptance of the present binding terms. The fulfillment of the requirements established herein is compulsory to accept the candidates as valid participants.
4. PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS
Any person included and over 18 years old, who accepts the present terms, may be accepted as a participant, excluding the employees of the organizing company.
The participant must be the author or right holder of all the intellectual property rights over the software subject of this competition or, in case it is partially based on third parties’ code, she shall have the duly authorization of the right holder in order to participate in this competition (for example, through the so-called “Open Source Licenses”).
5. DURATION
The competition will start on October 1st, 2009 at 00:00 GMT and will end on December 31st, 2009 at 23:59 GMT.
6. DELIVERY OF THE WORKS
Users interested on participate in this competition must fill out correctly the form available at Safe Creative’s blog (http://en.safecreative.net and http://labs.safecreative.net) and send it to the email address apicontest09@safecreative.org.
In the form, the participants must provide the URL where the candidate’s project will be published, or must send along with the form the source code and the compiled binary, with an installable or executable file.
7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The participant guarantees that the software sent to Safe Creative is original and, thus, does not infringe third parties’ rights (including but not limited to Intellectual Property Rights, Trademarks, Patents, etc.). Therefore, the participant shall indemnify and hold Safe Creative harmless from any claims, damages, expenses, loss or liability of any kind or nature, brought by any third party for the infringement of his legitimate rights.
All the works must bear a GPL-License (from the Free Software Foundation) on any of its versions or any other license that permits the free and open availability of the source code of the project, including the permission to make derivative works based on it.
The work must include the text of the license, whether it is published or sent directly to Safe Creative, along with the authors involved in the project.
A breach of these requirements will mean the non-participation or the expulsion of the candidate from the competition.
Safe Creative will make available, when tested, all the candidates works; the projects will be available respecting each license at Safe Creative’s download area, at the URL facilitated by the participant, or in any other place that Safe Creative might decide in the future.
8. PROHIBITIONS
It is strictly prohibited the deliverance of malicious software, viruses, Trojans, or any other piece of software that render concealed functions or non-related with the purposes stated in Point 1, or that, in any way, could harm computer systems, hardware or could violate the binding laws. The breach of this rule will mean the unconditional disqualification of the participant and the reservation of taking legal actions against him.
Safe Creative reserves its right to test, compile and analyze the functioning of the work before publishing it on its website, and before considering it valid for the competition, in order to verify that it comply with the rules stated herein.
9. PRIZES
The prizes are the ones listed below, which will not be exchangeable or refundable:
1.Computer Sony Vaio W11S1E/T
2.Console PS3 Slim 120 GB
3.Portable Console GP2X Wiz
The author will be the sole responsible for the tax obligations related with the prize.
10. JURY, CRITERIA AND JUDGMENT
The Jury will be formed by the Safe Creative’s Technical Team.
The criteria to evaluate the work will be the following:
1.To Simplify or make easier the registration procedure to authors and creators.
2.To provide the knowledge of the rights and the authorized-uses of the works.
3.Originality of the concept: new uses and possibilities on the online content distribution, which may be compatible with the uses of the “Copyright” and “Copyleft” systems.
The jury judgment will be published on January 15th, 2010, at the Safe Creative’s blog (http://es.safecreative.net and http://en.safecreative.net)
The decision of the jury cannot be appealed.
If under the jury’s opinion none of the participant work reaches the standard level of quality, the prize will not be given in whichever category it may be.
11. DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRIZES.
The company will contact the winners through the email address provided on the application form, in order to communicate the prize and arrange the shipment.
The shipment fees for the prizes will be carried by the organizing company.
12. PUBLICATION OF THE WINNERS’ IDENTITIES.
The winners hereby accept the disclosure and therefore the publication of their names and last names on the different media that Safe Creative may consider appropriate.
13. PERSONAL INFORMATION.
The personal data received by Safe Creative from the participants will be included in an automated file property of Safe Creative and treated under the existing legislation in data protection. Participants’ personal information will be used by Safe Creative to carry out the present promotion.
Participants expressly authorize Safe Creative to inform them, through the email, of new services, promotions and commercial actions that the company may organize. The rights of opposition, access, modification or cancelation of these data will be carried out through a written application to Safe Creative, to the email address info@safecreative.net.
14. JURISDICTION AND GOVERNING LAW.
This contest is regulated under the Spanish Law. Safe Creative and the participants expressly renounce to any other jurisdiction but the Spanish one, the Spanish Tribunals will be chosen for any dispute that may arise from the present promotion.
October 19th, 2009
Safe Creative
We ‘ve just published a Mozilla Firefox extension that uses the search api, as an example of API usage, maybe used as an starting point for other uses.
This extensions adds a new contextual submenu to any image loaded in the browser (even from local files). When invoked, the md5 checksum of the image is calculated to call Safe Creative’s search api. If any result is found (with this implementation only exact matches are possible), a new window with work title, author(s) and license is shown. Otherwise, a “No rights info” notice appears.
The extension is open-sourced and available under a MIT license at http://code.google.com/p/rightsinfo/
Also installable from http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/14452
September 21st, 2009
Safe Creative
A new version of Safe Creative API is now available. It allows you to use the Safe Creative Registry platform services in your applications, plug-ins, etc.
If you want to test our API without the responsibility of using real data, we have a sandbox platform at http://arena.safecreative.org which behaves exactly as our production platform. You will need an application key to use the API, which can be requested at arena clicking here. You must create a user account in arena if you don’t have one (remember this is a testing platform and data is not shared with our main system). In arena, API keys activation is automatic, and you can create new users for testing purposes, etc. So just start playing around!
API documentation (draft) can be found at http://labs.safecreative.net/api-doc
Besides, we encourage you to take a look to our first version of semantic API or check our Safe Creative firefox extension.
Please, write to api-management@safecreative.org if you need help.
That’s all! Well… you should also read our API legal terms of use at the end of this post 
Have fun!
Legal terms
If you want to use our API for professional or commercial purposes, please contact us through our form at
http://www.safecreative.org/contact. Our API is free for non-commercial, non-massive and personal use.
To read our full API legal terms of use: http://www.safecreative.org/legal-api
September 16th, 2009
Safe Creative
Now you can register your works directly from your browser!
Install the Safe Creative Register button and register your blog posts and web page contents in a fast and easy way.
The Safe Creative Register button can be used in two different ways:
- If you have a blog on WordPress or Blogspot, you can register your posts by clicking the Safe Creative Register button from the post editor.
- Also, you can register any text on the web by selecting it in your browser and then clicking the Safe Creative Register button.
To install the Safe Creative Register button, visit http://www.safecreative.org/bookmarklet
June 25th, 2009