OPENING QUESTION:

We know that "Star Trek Continues" posted a copywrite (-ish) notice on their website.

Clearly they were hoping avoid entanglements with the Star Trek copywrite holder (CBS).

Why were they (and every other fan-based Star Trek video production organization) unsuccessful?

LEARNING OBJECTIVE:  

During today's class I will:

• make a coherent argument as to weather current copyright laws are helping or harming society using evidence from an article.

• explain how copyright and Creative Commons Licenses can be applied to digital works of creativity

CALENDAR:

I'm thinking Unit Test on Monday (10/7/2024)

WORDS FOR TODAY:

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• innovation: "A new or improved idea, device, product, etc, or the development thereof
• prototype: "A proof of concept"
• CPU: Central Processing Unit
• Binary: 0's & 1's - Base₂
• Octal: Base₈
• Hexadecimal Base₁₆ - 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F
• Byte: one binary 'word'
• Bit: one binary 'letter' - either a 0 or 1
• Abstraction: "The difference between the user layer and the software/hardware layer"
• Compress -​ to decrease the number of bits used to represent a piece of information

Heuristic - a problem solving approach (algorithm) to find a satisfactory solution where finding an optimal or exact solution is impractical or impossible.

Lossless Compression - a data compression algorithm that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data.

Lossy Compression - a data compression algorithm that sacrifices some amount of the original data to decrease file size

Image - A type of data used for graphics or pictures.

metadata - is data that describes other data. For example, a digital image may include metadata that describe the size of the image, number of colors, or resolution.

Pixel - short for "picture element", the fundamental unit of a digital image, typically a tiny square or dot that contains a single point of color of a larger image.

Image - A type of data used for graphics or pictures.

metadata - is data that describes other data. For example, a digital image may include metadata that describe the size of the image, number of colors, or resolution

 

WORK O' THE DAY: 

Contrast "Open Source" software with copywrited software.

Compare "Creative Commons" software with copywrited software.

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Now please take a gander at the US Copywrite Office website

Are our current copyright policies helping society or hurting society?