18. Invention, intellectual property and income¶
Assignment
Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project, and prepare drafts of your summary slide (presentation.png, 1920x1080) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~10 MB) and put them in your root directory.
Slide
Video
NOTE: The actual video is in my root directory of my GitLab repo here, but it did not render when linked with an HTML tag, so the video below is the same but is hosted on Vimeo instead.
Final Project Dissemination Plan
As my final project focuses on restoring the original decentralized philosophy to in-person Bitcoin transactions, I intend to make my final project fully open-source. In order to keep the project open-source whilst protecting the intellectual property that I have developed throughout the past several months, I decided to persue the Creative Commons website and search for an adequate license that would protect my work but also provide others with the opportunity to further develop my project. After browsing the various licenses available on the Creative Commons website, I decided that the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License would be best for my project in order to prevent others from commercializing my invention whilst also allowing others to build upon and improve my invention. Creative Commons provides some useful code below each license to display the badge for my respective copyright below the piece of intellectual property that I copyrighted. I've included the code snippet below to display what the copyright looks like when you register for it.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
(c) Jack Hollingsworth - (Date Published)
This work may be reproduced, modified, distributed, performed, and displayed for any purpose,
but must acknowledge the Re-Decentralized BTC ATM.
Copyright is retained and must be preserved. The work is provided as is;
no warranty is provided, and users accept all liability.
Drafting my final slide
After creating my dissemination plan for my final project and copyrighting my final project under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, I was ready to begin drafting my slide to display my final project during my final presentation. I decided to use GIMP for the development of my slide, as it is an intuitive open-source photo-editing software that I have become relatively familiar with throughout my Fab experience. The below photo is not transparent because the only transparent GIMP logo that I could find on Google was repeatedly flagged by my antivirus software.
As I completed my work on my slide relatively late, I only ever ended up creating a single draft of the slide which is the one that I shared with Dr. Gershenfeld during the oral defense of my final project. The final slide that I created is included below. For this week's assignment, I also needed to upload the png of my slide to the root directory of the GitLab repository for this site. As Visual Studio Code imposes an upload file size limit on pushes from the IDE, I needed to use the GitLab Web IDE to upload the uncompressed version of my final slide in the dimensions that Neil requested. Due to the large file syze of the image and the amount of people that were likely pushing their images at the same time as me, the image did take roughly 30 minutes to pipeline, but it eventually was successful.
I included images on my slide of all of the major components that my final project consisted of. Obviously, there were many more processes that I used to make the project function as intended, but I wanted to highlight some of the most notable and integral components of the project on its slide. I also wrote a brief description that describes the purpose of my project which is found in the top left corner of the slide.
Filming and Editing My Final Video
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For the creation of the video for my final project I decided to use Filmora. Filmora is an intuitive video-editing software that allows for the speedy creation of professional-quality videos, which is precisely what I wanted to bolster my great final project to Neil during my oral defense.
To start, I imported all of the media that I planned on including in my video into a folder on the Desktop of the PC that I run Filmora on, and imported this folder into the unique Filmora folder associated with my current project that I was editing within the software.
After importing the correct music, the process was as simple as dragging and dropping video clips that I wanted to include in my video into the correct location and adding titles and transitions to certain parts of my video.
After finishing the editing process of my video, I was ready to export it as an mp4 and push it to my Fab GitLab repo. After exporting the video from Filmora, it revealed a file size of 189.9 MB, which is significantly higher than the 10.00 MB limit that Neil stressed throughout multiple lectures.
After employing various online video compressors, I managed to reduce the size of my file to just 11 MB while still keeping it in a very watchable quality. My video is linked below and can be watched on the documentation page for my final project as well.
Conclusion
There was no group assignment for this week's work as everyone was working on their final projects at this point. Overall, the work that I conducted this week helped me prepare for the dissemination of my final project and taught me a lot about distributing media about future projects in a format that viewers want to watch.