Monday, October 10, 2011

Copyright Assignment

The first video I choose was created by a member of the Society of Robots (www.societyofrobots.com) to show users a time-laps of the construction of a simple line following robot.


This video is centered around a personal video that the author filmed himself of him building a robot he designed.  This is, of course, his own intellectual property and is free to show. However, the movie is overlayed with a music track that, presumably, the poster did not compose himself.  Nowhere, either at the beginning or the end, is there any mention of an author for the song.  The description of the movie, likewise, does not include any credit.  There are also several animations from an unidentified CAD program of pieces of the completed robot.  Since the design is original, the only question here is whether the computer program can be shown without giving credit.

The second video detailed how to make the perfect omelette.

This video appears to be a digital recording of a British cooking show. As such, it would be a violation of copyright to post it to youTube without obtaining permission from the broadcaster or publisher.  There is no mention of such permission or even network show times in the video description. This video is most likely in violation of copyright.