Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Photoshoot 2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4OYubExw6FiN1hCQkJScGZTYnM/edit?usp=sharing

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Unit 51 Task 2 – Digital Copyright & Permissions

What is copyright and what is its relevance to digital images?

In the UK, copyright is an automatic right given to the creators of original works giving these creators exclusive rights to control copying, if the owner allows people to use there material the creators are entitled to receive royalties from the person using the material. Copyright and moral rights protect human innovation, creation and invention from being stolen from the original owner.Like property, IPR can be sold, bought, hired and passed on. The Patent Office has responsibility for managing how IPRs are administered in the UK. In the UK, copyright protection is only given to certain classes 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 given protection when the idea has been drawn out rather than just an idea.

Copyright legislation

The Copyright law in the UK is based upon a number of pieces of legislation, case law, directives, treaties and conventions, as well as interpretation.The Copyright Designs and Patent Act 1988 was the first revision of the Copyright Laws in the UK for 32 years and came into effect in August 1989.

Duration of copyright

Under the present legislation, each classification for copyright has a fixed term for which copyright will last. For literary and artistic works, if the creator is known.the general rule is that copyright lasts for 70 years from the end of the year that the creator died. If the creator is anonymous then the rule of 70 years applies from the end of the year it was published. However and photograph made in the UK or by a UK citizen since August 1989 will be in copyright for the life of the photographer plus 70 years.

Fontsquirrel.com -  Each font has an row of symbols indicating what typical uses we think it allows for free. Please read the license though on any font you plan to use just to make sure. The symbols look like this: ZYMm. If the symbol is dark, then we think it can be used legally, if it is light then we think it can't. Keep in mind that we may have missed something, so if you REALLY like a font, read the license for yourself. If you aren't sure, contact the designer and ask.


http://www.freephotosbank.com/ - Copyrights & Author Ownership

Any photos/pictures posted by the author “freephotosbank” are free to use as long as you are using them for a website, book, magazine, etc. You cannot download our photos to sell as is or modified from any source. To use our photos/pictures you must accredit us on the work that you used the photo/picture on/in for the use of them or we will consider it a copyright infringement.
Any photos/pictures posted by other authors remain their property and it is their decision to license the photo to you. We at FreePhotosBank.com do not retain the right to license other photographer’s/author’s material at this time. Please feel free to use our “contact” function within the photographer’s profile to contact them and ask permission. 

http://www.grsites.com/archive/textures/ -  Are these buttons/logos/menus/text boxes really free for me to use as  I like?
Yes,they are your to keep and use how you like. No questions asked

http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/copyright-and-digital-images/#cp3



Font and Typefacefont is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface, a typeface face is is a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features.A font style refers to a motif or design that affects a set of letters, numbers, symbols or punctuation in a text. This is usually in terms of size and appearance and includes various attributes for instance bold, italic and underline. Didot is a name given to a group of typefaces named after the famous French printing and type producing family.


                                    
This is an example of condensed text. As you can see the text is spaced together closely.

This is an example of extended text. This text is very spaced and has a bigger gap in between lines than normal text.
This is an example of kerning, the effects of this are not very noticeable until you look closely.