19. Invention, Intellectual Property and Income

Assignments

Invention, Intellectual Property and Income

Here you can find a recording of the lecture from the 28th of May.

This week's assignments and learning outcomes, see here:

Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project.
Prepare drafts of your summary slide (presentation.png, 1920x1080) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~25 MB) and put them in your website's root directory

Draft of summary slide

Draft slide

This is the draft slide. I made it with a template from Canva and edited it. I added it to the root of my repository and it appeared on the final presentation page.

Draft of presentation video

Draft video

This is the draft video. Note that the globe shown in the video i used an example from D3js.org by Mike Bostock, and I described my project week 15. Here you can find the full text with the copyright permission from Mike Bostock.

Final presentation video draft

The basics on HTML5 MP4 ffmpeg encoding

HTML5 MP4 ffmpeg encoding

Here are all basics on HTML5 MP4 ffmpeg encoding. Below you can see the settings that I used to compress the draft video and second below you can see the original code. You can change the settings in the window, copy the text and paste it into your terminal. See week 01 for more information and documentation of how I learned to use FFmpeg and image compression.

Screenshot of my settings:

FFMPEG Command for compressing videos. Text can be edited, copied and pasted into terminal:

Licencing

Licence

After listening to Neil Gershenfeld talk about patents and licencing, I thought about if I wanted to use a licence for my work. But is someone else going to be interested in using my work and how would I want my work to be licenced?

Sara Kutkova is a student in Fab Academy 2025 like me, and I read her documentation on licencing. I have used so many open source works and I am glad that the concept of Open source exsists. I would like my work to be open source, just as Sara Kutkova, so that I can contribute to this community, but I would also want to be acknowledged if my work is used.

Sara Kutkova mentions this website where you can read about different types of Creative commons licences.

I chose to use the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence, which is described here. This is a screenshot of what this licence requires:

Licence added to footer

You can add a copyright banner into the footer of your webpage. Read about it here. This is done by adding the following in mkdocs.yml (example taken from the page mentioned):

copyright: Copyright &copy; 2016 - 2020 Martin Donath

If you want to use a HTML code, you can fill in your text and information on the Creative Commons website here. Then you can copy a HTML code and paste it where you want to. I used it and added this to Home on my website:

Dissemination plan

Plan for dissemination

When I began working on my final project, my first thought was on how I would use it to get kids to be interested in learning more. I have been teaching art in an elementary school for many years and I love both working with art in a multidisciplinary way. I think that this project can be useful in STEM og STEAM education and then it would mostly be teachers who would be interested in using this project.

I can think of a few ways to reach those who could be interested. One of them is reaching out to teachers by visiting schools. Another way is to contach those who organize regional meetings for teachers that are held each fall. Many teachers in Iceland use Facebook for exhanging information and I am in a few of such groups. I could tell teachers about the project there.

There is also the possibility of asking for a meeting with the Directors of education in each region in Iceland and introduce the project to them.

One more possibility is to contact media like mbl.is or Vísir.is which are widely read in Iceland and might show interest in writing about the project. Then there is the regional media Austurfrétt.is which many people in the Eastern Iceland read. But to be honest, I am not likely to contact the media. It is more likely that I would contact teachers or Directors of education.

A few people in my hometown know about my project and one of them works at Náttúrstofa Austurlands. Náttúrustofa Austurlands monitors the nature and animals in Eastern Iceland and more. The institution also give lectures and more. The person I mentioned has said that it would be interesting to use this project in some way, so maybe something might be done with it. Only time will tell, but this is definately a probability.