Photos for brushes project

Class 1:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hw3xmg2s2bijcwp/go-pro-shots.zip?dl=0

Class 2:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/prc16j8i3nz444t/gopro-02.zip?dl=0

Illustrator Shapes for Project

Download link for illustrator shapes - section 1:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/thumaq93xjsf2mw/shapes-01.zip?dl=0

Download link for illustrator shapes - section 2:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lg4k96a6k6hmh2e/shapes-02.zip?dl=0

Some cool vector art, by a variety of artists:

Fernando Togni

Caramelaw

Konstantin Shalev

Various

More various

What's due Tuesday: Fair Use Image and Writing

On Tuesday, your "Fair Use" image is due at the beginning of class.

Please keep your source images as well as our finished image, so we will more clearly be able to evaluate whether you have a possible case for "fair use" of those source images. Remember, in class you will present your image, and make your case that your image is a legally protected image; the class will act as the "prosecution," making the argument that your image is not protected by "fair use,' and is in fact in breach of copyright law.

You need to be prepared with a written statement of roughly a page in length, outlining your legal "fair use" defense. What elements of your work correspond to the protections of fair use, and how can you back that up with an argument focusing on your intentions and the evidence of what's there in your work? For instance, you might think of your work as a "parody," but what is the actual satirical comment you're making with the work, and how is that commentary supported by the images and the way they're used?

The intended venue of the work could have a strong bearing on whether your work is "protected" or not -- so please explain if the artwork is intended to be shown on a T-Shirt, in a gallery, on a billboard, or what have you. Please refer to the previous post for some links on fair use and copyright.  A successful defense of of your image will address at least some of the "four guidelines" for fair use:

1. The Transformative Factor: The Purpose and Character of Your Use

2. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work

3. The Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Taken

4. The Effect of the Use Upon the Potential Market

How does your image relate to each of those guidelines?

In addition (on a separate page), I want one paragraph explaining what you would change about copyright law. Would you reduce the term of copyright, or extend it? Would you add clearer guidelines for the amount of a copyrighted work that can be used in fair use? Would you introduce more specific standards for setting or reporting damages for copyright infringement? Would you create any broader categories for fair use? Would you create a copyright version of "attribution," where you have broader range of use as long as you have an explicit acknowledgement of your copyrighted sources?

So, by Tuesday, have:

1. Your fair use image

2. Your one-page defense (printed out)

3. Your one-paragraph revision of copyright law (printed out)

Tuesday's homework: "Fair Use" idea and sketch

For Tuesday's class, come prepared with a sketch for your idea for the "fair use" project. You need to use something that's copyrighted – an image, a photo, a logo, a tagline, a story, a song lyric, whatever it may be – and you need to change it enough that you think you'd have a "fair use" case for your use of the copyrighted material.

Obviously we're creating this project for class, but I want you to imagine your fair use project being used in some other venue. The intended venue of the work could have a strong bearing on whether your work is "protected" or not -- so please imagine the artwork is intended to be shown on a T-Shirt, in a gallery, on a billboard, or what have you.

If you want to refresh yourself on some copyright info, there are free digital versions of a Duke Copyright Fair Use comic here:

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.php

Again, fair use can be invoked for the following reasons:

To report on news
To make a parody
To copy for class
To criticize
To quote for scholarly purposes
For research

For the purposes of this project, you'll be leaning on either the "parody" or "criticism" angle.

There are also "four guidelines" for fair use - we'll examine this more closely on Tuesday's class:

1. The Transformative Factor: The Purpose and Character of Your Use

2. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work

3. The Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Taken

4. The Effect of the Use Upon the Potential Market

More detailed info here:
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-b.html

Midterm files

For the midterm, I'm collecting the following projects. Please bring all your projects to date to class. You should give them filenames like this:

"(2-digit project number)-(your last name)-(project title).fileextension"

So if your name is Jane Smith, and the project was the self portrait, you would name the file:

01-smith-selfportrait.jpg

If you have more than one image for the project, append letters (A,B, C):

01-smith-selfportrait-A.jpg
01-smith-selfportrait-B.jpg

All the files should be flattened files.

And here are the project titles I'd like you to use.

1. Digital self-portrait, from three scans:

01-lastname-selfportrait

2. Text/image combo project (at least two versions)

02-lastname-textimage-A
02-lastname-textimage-B

3. The response to the collage artist

03-lastname-collageresponse

4. The "composite" project (something small made large, or something large made small)

04-lastname-composite

5. The "fake news" project

05-lastname-fakenews

6. The "multiple me" project

06-lastname-multiple


In a folder called "Writing," you should have:

1. A short reaction to "To Thine Own Selves Be True."

01-lastname-selves

2. A three-page response paper to a collage artist.