According to wikipedia.org, this is what Intellectual Property Rights are.
" Legal concept which refers to creations of the mind for which exclusive rights are recognised. Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary and artistic works; discoveries and inventions: and words, phrases, symbols and designs. Common types of intellectual property rights include copyright, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and some jurisdictions trade secrets."
Before you fully understand what Intellectual Property Rights are,you have to know what trademarks, industrial design rights, patents and trade secrets are, so in these next few posts I will talk about them.
-Rebecca Hickey
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Copyright.
According to About.com this is the definition of Copyright.
"Copyright refers to laws that regulate the use of the work of a creator, such as an artist or author. This includes copying, distributing, altering and displaying creative literary and other types of work. Unless otherwise stated in the contract, the author or creator of a work retains the copyright.
For a copyright to apply to a work, it must be an original idea that is put to use. The idea alone cannot be protected by copyright. It is the physical use of that idea, such as an illustration or a written novel, that is covered under copyright law."
Basically, copyright protects others from using something that you've produced and from gaining profit or credit for it. Once your creation is under copyright, you and you alone can use it unless you state in your contract that you have given another person permission to use it.
The only thing that the copyright does not stop people from doing is using the general idea of your creation. For example, you've written a novel and in that novel one of your character's says "Oh my jellybeans that is one big fish!" and you describe that they're wearing a red hat and a yellow raincoat. Some time after you publish your novel, a film comes out with a scene that is similar to a part of your book, in the film one of the main characters is wearing a yellow hat and a red raincoat and is saying "Oh my jellyfish, that's a Godzilla of a creature there Phil!" Even though the person that wrote the film may have read your novel and ripped off the idea and made a scene from it, you cannot claim any profit that the film will have made because it is nothing like the part in your novel even if it is similar to it.
Sometimes people can get confused and mistake something that someone has made as an alteration of what you have produced. In some cases the person will have copied someones work and changed one thing to try and get away with it, but in some cases an artist or creator may have been influenced by your work and decided to do it in the style that you have worked in.
It can get complicated when something like this happens, but if you are careful and do not use parts of other peoples work then nothing bad will happen.
Now I know what you're thinking... Copyright is confusing, but it really isn't. If you're careful you won't get into any legal troubles. If you do want to use something that isn't yours then state who it is by, where you found it to show evidence that you own to rights to whatever you're using. If you cannot find any information about what you want to show, then ask someone if they who or can find out who it is by. Doing this will help the person that owns the copyright out and give them the credit that they deserve, because after all, everybody hates a copycat.
-Rebecca Hickey
"Copyright refers to laws that regulate the use of the work of a creator, such as an artist or author. This includes copying, distributing, altering and displaying creative literary and other types of work. Unless otherwise stated in the contract, the author or creator of a work retains the copyright.
For a copyright to apply to a work, it must be an original idea that is put to use. The idea alone cannot be protected by copyright. It is the physical use of that idea, such as an illustration or a written novel, that is covered under copyright law."
Basically, copyright protects others from using something that you've produced and from gaining profit or credit for it. Once your creation is under copyright, you and you alone can use it unless you state in your contract that you have given another person permission to use it.
The only thing that the copyright does not stop people from doing is using the general idea of your creation. For example, you've written a novel and in that novel one of your character's says "Oh my jellybeans that is one big fish!" and you describe that they're wearing a red hat and a yellow raincoat. Some time after you publish your novel, a film comes out with a scene that is similar to a part of your book, in the film one of the main characters is wearing a yellow hat and a red raincoat and is saying "Oh my jellyfish, that's a Godzilla of a creature there Phil!" Even though the person that wrote the film may have read your novel and ripped off the idea and made a scene from it, you cannot claim any profit that the film will have made because it is nothing like the part in your novel even if it is similar to it.
Sometimes people can get confused and mistake something that someone has made as an alteration of what you have produced. In some cases the person will have copied someones work and changed one thing to try and get away with it, but in some cases an artist or creator may have been influenced by your work and decided to do it in the style that you have worked in.
It can get complicated when something like this happens, but if you are careful and do not use parts of other peoples work then nothing bad will happen.
Now I know what you're thinking... Copyright is confusing, but it really isn't. If you're careful you won't get into any legal troubles. If you do want to use something that isn't yours then state who it is by, where you found it to show evidence that you own to rights to whatever you're using. If you cannot find any information about what you want to show, then ask someone if they who or can find out who it is by. Doing this will help the person that owns the copyright out and give them the credit that they deserve, because after all, everybody hates a copycat.
-Rebecca Hickey
The Legal and Ethical constraints of social media and website design.
There are many things that you have to think about in order to make a website free of anything that could be considered illegal. Some of the things that you should be looking at is copyright, intellectual property rights, permissions, sensitivity to groups of society, explicit content and safeguarding. All of these things must be checked before and during the process of creating a website.
To understand what these things are, they must be researched and quite a bit. I shall be making posts that discuss each of these things and how you can use them to prevent anything bad happening from what you put on a website.
-Rebecca Hickey
To understand what these things are, they must be researched and quite a bit. I shall be making posts that discuss each of these things and how you can use them to prevent anything bad happening from what you put on a website.
-Rebecca Hickey
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Three good websites. (Number Three.)
To conclude the posts on good websites, I give you this last one to look at.
This is the website for the American fashion designer Marc Ecko.
(http://www.marcecko.com/#/?query=08c77e3874039c55254ad8118086b967)
As well as using this website to support his designs, he also uses it to promote the many causes that he likes to help out.
I have chosen to post about this website last because I felt that it was the most important out of the three that I have researched. This website not only gives the viewer what they want, it also gives them information about other things that they may be interested in.
Seeing as the person who the website is about has taken such an interest into updating it frequently with things that he cares about, I think that with this personal feel, it will attract more people to view his designs which is a very clever strategy.
Here is an image of the homepage for Marc Ecko. As you can see, there aren't many colours used which makes a change from most homepages. You can see mostly black & white with the occasional red, yellow or gold.
As soon as you go onto the website, this is what should show up. The idea for the page is that when you move your mouse, the homepage also moves with it to different sections of that page. This gives you a choice of how you want to navigate.
When you move your mouse to the center of the page, this is what it looks like.
As you can see, the links to the different pages and sections of the website have been displayed as images hanging on a wall, surrounding a small image of the designer. I think that this makes the website more interactive, which will not bore the viewing audience.
The funny thing about this website is that at the bottom of the page, the copyright logo says, "2008 Marc Ecko Enterprises". The website's theme has not been updated since 2008, that's 5 years! It must be doing well if it hasn't changed its theme in years.
If you go to the left of the page, you will notice that there are two frames with links to a Facebook page & a blog.
Of course this is normal for a website to contain links of other things in relation, but you don't always see a blog. This can also be a good factor for gaining for viewers and customers.
The link to the blog just so happens to be a Tumblr account. (How very original Marc.)
I think that by having the blog as a Tumblr will attract a younger audience and maybe strike the curiosity of an older audience because of the content that it will show.
When you start to move your mouse around the page, you notice the many images of things surrounding the Marc Ecko logo. If you look at them clearly, some of the titles do not really fit in with fashion, but if you view some of these sections, you will see that fashion does in fact link to these subjects. Fashion can be used to express, promote, or make a statement of a person's opinions and feelings which is how this website is different from the others. The designer, uses his designs & website to his advantage which helps a lot of people.
This, is also one of the reasons why I thought this website was brilliant. It uses the idea of fashion and expands it, which is basically the role of a website anyways, to expand your idea.
For people that do not have time to navigate the website using just the mouse and images, there is also a type of drop-box that lists all of the websites content. If you hover your mouse to the top if the page, it should show up.
This, is what it looks like.
Instead of having a gallery like most fashion based websites, in one of the sections, there is a hyperlink to the Marc Ecko clothing page where you can buy and browse his different styles and creations. I found that his clothing page, was one of the best that I have seen because it is very easy to find everything that you want.
I think that overall, this website looks clean and it is fun and easy to use. It is probably aimed at a younger generation, but it may be aimed at others because of the non-fashion based content. The layout it very original and the colours that have been used do not clash, which is a good point. I think that this website is very modern with a hint of warmth and welcoming which is great as a USP. This is probably one of the most appealing websites that I have been on and I don't see why others won't like it. If I was to number this website out of 10, It would definitely get a 9.5. (It gets a 0.5 off for all the links)
-Rebecca Hickey
This is the website for the American fashion designer Marc Ecko.
(http://www.marcecko.com/#/?query=08c77e3874039c55254ad8118086b967)
As well as using this website to support his designs, he also uses it to promote the many causes that he likes to help out.
I have chosen to post about this website last because I felt that it was the most important out of the three that I have researched. This website not only gives the viewer what they want, it also gives them information about other things that they may be interested in.
Seeing as the person who the website is about has taken such an interest into updating it frequently with things that he cares about, I think that with this personal feel, it will attract more people to view his designs which is a very clever strategy.
Here is an image of the homepage for Marc Ecko. As you can see, there aren't many colours used which makes a change from most homepages. You can see mostly black & white with the occasional red, yellow or gold.
As soon as you go onto the website, this is what should show up. The idea for the page is that when you move your mouse, the homepage also moves with it to different sections of that page. This gives you a choice of how you want to navigate.
When you move your mouse to the center of the page, this is what it looks like.
As you can see, the links to the different pages and sections of the website have been displayed as images hanging on a wall, surrounding a small image of the designer. I think that this makes the website more interactive, which will not bore the viewing audience.
The funny thing about this website is that at the bottom of the page, the copyright logo says, "2008 Marc Ecko Enterprises". The website's theme has not been updated since 2008, that's 5 years! It must be doing well if it hasn't changed its theme in years.
If you go to the left of the page, you will notice that there are two frames with links to a Facebook page & a blog.
Of course this is normal for a website to contain links of other things in relation, but you don't always see a blog. This can also be a good factor for gaining for viewers and customers.
The link to the blog just so happens to be a Tumblr account. (How very original Marc.)
I think that by having the blog as a Tumblr will attract a younger audience and maybe strike the curiosity of an older audience because of the content that it will show.
When you start to move your mouse around the page, you notice the many images of things surrounding the Marc Ecko logo. If you look at them clearly, some of the titles do not really fit in with fashion, but if you view some of these sections, you will see that fashion does in fact link to these subjects. Fashion can be used to express, promote, or make a statement of a person's opinions and feelings which is how this website is different from the others. The designer, uses his designs & website to his advantage which helps a lot of people.
This, is also one of the reasons why I thought this website was brilliant. It uses the idea of fashion and expands it, which is basically the role of a website anyways, to expand your idea.
For people that do not have time to navigate the website using just the mouse and images, there is also a type of drop-box that lists all of the websites content. If you hover your mouse to the top if the page, it should show up.
This, is what it looks like.
Instead of having a gallery like most fashion based websites, in one of the sections, there is a hyperlink to the Marc Ecko clothing page where you can buy and browse his different styles and creations. I found that his clothing page, was one of the best that I have seen because it is very easy to find everything that you want.
I think that overall, this website looks clean and it is fun and easy to use. It is probably aimed at a younger generation, but it may be aimed at others because of the non-fashion based content. The layout it very original and the colours that have been used do not clash, which is a good point. I think that this website is very modern with a hint of warmth and welcoming which is great as a USP. This is probably one of the most appealing websites that I have been on and I don't see why others won't like it. If I was to number this website out of 10, It would definitely get a 9.5. (It gets a 0.5 off for all the links)
-Rebecca Hickey
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Research.
Last week, my tutor told the class that we each had to get one book out of the college library that we thought would help us with the research for our website. At first I thought, "I am really not going to find anything about what I want to do..." but I was wrong. I found the perfect book. "The Guinness Guide To 20th Century Fashion" has actually been really helpful and useful. I would never have had the idea for the theme of my website if I hadn't read it. Each page of the book describes in detail what people wore in each decade of the 20th century and how things have changed from the start. This book has really helped me and has strangely been very interesting. I think that I will use books more often in the future to gather information because I think that there are things in books that you just cannot find on the internet.
-Rebecca Hickey
-Rebecca Hickey
The different pages of my website.
The draft designs that I have been working on gave me lots of ideas of how I want my website to look. Through messing around with different ideas, I have been able to finish the design for my pages. These are the examples of what I want it to look like.
Website Open Site Page:
Homepage:
Icon Page:
Hairstyles Page:
Clothes Page:
Jewellery Page:
Gallery Page:
The reason that I have used these colours, pattern designs and font is because it is very art deco. Art Deco is something that has never gone out of fashion and is something that has influenced many people. I thought that if I made my website in this style, it would attract people to view it.
As you can see, I haven't put any information or images on any these design pages. I haven't done this yet because I am still in the process of writing all of my information down and getting my images to the standard that I want; because I want some of my own drawings to be in the gallery, I won't have any of my content mocked up for a some time.
-Rebecca Hickey
Website Open Site Page:
Homepage:
Icon Page:
Hairstyles Page:
Clothes Page:
Jewellery Page:
Gallery Page:
The reason that I have used these colours, pattern designs and font is because it is very art deco. Art Deco is something that has never gone out of fashion and is something that has influenced many people. I thought that if I made my website in this style, it would attract people to view it.
As you can see, I haven't put any information or images on any these design pages. I haven't done this yet because I am still in the process of writing all of my information down and getting my images to the standard that I want; because I want some of my own drawings to be in the gallery, I won't have any of my content mocked up for a some time.
-Rebecca Hickey
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