Emily's Creative Media Blog: February 2014

Digital Copyright & Permissions - http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/copyright-and-digital-images/#cp2

Copyright law in the UK is based upon a number of pieces of legislation, case law, directives, treaties and conventions, as well as interpretation.
Digital material can be replicated, handled, stored and compressed at virtually with no worries about cost, the concepts of copyright. This results in a digital landscape where content is very easy to find, but any use of it is limited within the context of the copyright legislation. Although the copyright legislation is extremely thorough, there are a number of reasons why copyright, as applied to digital images, not as simple as it looks. There is no such thing as electronic or digital copyright.
Copyright will still protect digital images by applying the same standards in which copyright is applied to in the correspondent world, though it is not as straightforward to apply the concepts of copyright to certain types of digital content such as machine-generated materials and multimedia.

Copyright is not the only rights issue that will have an impact on digital images. Other rights issues may include: moral rights; subjects of privacy and of children and adults appearing in photos; trademarks; design rights; and obscenity and indecency. Within a digital setting, Moral Rights are important to follow because of which content can be altered, changed and manipulated. If digital images are reproduced electronically, it is important to make certain that they are reproduced in their entirety except if consent has been secured from the rights owner.

Copyright is an automatic right afforded to creators of original works giving these creators exclusive rights to control copying, adaptation, issuance of copies to the public, performance and broadcasting of the work that they create. In return for licensing their materials the creators are entitled to receive royalties.

Copyright protection is only given in certain curriculums of work: these must exist in material form as ideas are not given protection. This means, for example, that while an illustrator may have an idea for a drawing; it is only once it is given a tangible expression (i.e. it is drawn) that it will be protected by copyright. In conclusion copyright it is only allowed if the work is original, which means the work isn't copied from somewhere else and if it is done by someone who is qualified, a British subject or someone who normally lives here, or the material must first be published in this country.

How long can copyright be applied for? (Literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works)

For literary and artistic works, if the originator is known, the rule is that copyright persists for 70 years from the end of the year that the originator died. If the originator is unknown then the rule of 70 years applies from the end of the year it was available. Unpublished literary works, in many circumstances, will remain in copyright until 31st December 2039 irrespective of when they were created.

Any photograph made in the UK or by a UK citizen later than August 1989 will be in copyright for the life of the photographer with an added 70 years.

If the original item was in copyright at the time the photograph was taken, then the photograph is a violation of copyright if permission was not decided. This may mean that you can own the copyright in the photograph but you can't do anything with it, because you are violating the copyright of the original object. If you want to take a photograph of an object in copyright, then you should apply for permission, stating what you want to do with the photograph.

Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/about

If you want to give people the right to share, use, and even build upon a work you’ve created, you should publish it under a Creative Commons license. CC gives you flexibility (for example, you can choose to allow only non-commercial uses) and that protects the people who use your work, so they don’t have to worry about copyright violation, as long as they abide by the conditions you have specified.
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ + http://www.fotopedia.com/wiki/Creative_Commons#!/items/rodrigo-e4a4ae94b5192f36a5957e422bc4af82

Flickr and Fotopedia have a page specifically for the creative commons, there are four categories and these are:

Attribution means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.
Non-commercial means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for non-commercial purposes only.
No Derivative Works means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
Share Alike means:
You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

Wikimedia - http://www.wikimedia.org/

these links are from - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary
http://viintage.com/
http://publicphoto.org/
http://www.1millionfreepictures.com/

Fonts and typefaces

What is a font?
A font is a type of text, that has its own unique style. They come in two main styles being, Sans Serif and Serif, Sans means 'Without' in French and a Serif is decorative line on letter: a short decorative line at the start or finish of a stroke in a letter. So Sans Serif (Without decoration) looks like this:

Lorem ipsum

and Serif (decoration) looks like this:

Lorem ipsum

What is a typeface what is font style? (size/bold/italic etc.)
A typeface is the a style of printed character, e.g. Bold 'B' Italic 'I' or Underlined 'U', you can also vary the size of the font with the drop down menu of numbers, which represents the font size.

What is condensed and extended font?
Condensed font is a font in which the set-widths of the characters is narrower than in the standard typeface.
Extended font is the same font as condensed but with standard width of characters.

Condensed font:
Lorem ipsum

Extended font:

Lorem ipsum

What is Didot?
Didot is a name given to a group of typefaces named after the famous French printing and type producing family. The typeface we know today was based on a collection of related types developed in the period 1784–1811. Firmin Didot cut the letters, and cast them as type in Paris.

Find examples:

Photos of text to show example

What do they mean or what impressions do they give the reader?
If the text is ALL IN CAPITALS it gives the impression that what they are reading is breaking news or something important.
If the text is all in lower case writing it could give the impression that the article is acute and not as important as the other ones in the magazine.

Size (Does it matter?)
Magazine front sizes never go above a size 14. If its any bigger it will take up too much room.

Compatibility issues?
If you download a font on your computer and create a DPS that you need to email over to a proof reader, they may not (most probably not) have that certain font downloaded on their computer, so therefor causing compatibility issues.

Drop cap