COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 34 You be the Judge

Students go into groups and acted a jurors for a selection of some real but mostly hypothetical court cases involving libel, privacy, and fair use.

I was surprised by the degree of consensus.

COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 33 Copyright & Patents

We quickly reviewed some of the copyright issues we considered in the last class.

We looked at Patents

My new machine has arrived :-)

Unfortunately I am still missing a few cables to connect it up to the classrooms. So students won't see the impact until next semester. But hopefully from now on I will lose fewer recordings of classes.

I'm mostly looking forward to being able to edit video with ease.

It's lightening fast. And things that took minutes now take seconds.

COMP6023 Legal Issues Handouts

I believe I have accurately gauged the demand for paper handouts on the legal aspects of web publishing that we will be discussing over the next few classes. But if I have not, you can find links to everything here.

If you want even more please go to the COMP6023 resources page.

Libel
Tweet Revenge: Tory to sue 10,000 Twitter users who branded him a paedo.

Lalit Modi loses appeal against £90,000 libel award.

Facebook Libel.

Court refuses access to papers.

Lawyers for Rehab force website to remove article.

High Stakes in Oprah's Cow Row.

Movie could not libel mobster.


Image
Sarkozy and Bruni win Ryanair Payout.


Hate Speech
Bob Dylan investigated over incitement to racial hatred claim.

Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act (2006).

David Irving jailed for Holocaust denial.


Copyright
Who owns Sherlock Holmes?


Trade Secrets
Injunctions granted to spice burger firm.


Patents & Trademarks
People's Republic of Cork Trade Mark at Irish Patents Office


Privacy & Filtering
Max Mosley wins landmark privacy case against Google over S&M pictures.

COMP6023 DCOM1 Class 33 Free Speech and its limits

We looked at free speech and its limits. We discussed libel, hate speech, and blasphemy.

COMP6023 DNET1/COM1c Class 33 Legal Issues: Free Speech, Copyright

We looked at Free Speech and its limits. We discussed libel, hate speech, and blasphemy.

We began our look at intellectual property issues and discussed copyright. We will continue with copyright in the next class.

COMP6023 DCOM1 Class 30 Transparency & PNG

We looked at transparency and the PNG format.

We discussed the merits of GIF, JPEG, and PNG, and in which circumstances which might be the best choice.

COMP6021 Class 32 Tutorial

Today's class was a tutorial. We looked at dithering questions from the set of sample questions.

Working out the weighted average of the RGB values is easy enough. But generating a dithering pattern from a patent and a target simulated colour, is a bit trickier.

Students should expect a dithering question on the summer exam.

COMP6023 DWEB1 Classes 31 & 32 Labs

Students worked on the assignments

COMP6021 Class 31 Lab

Students worked on the assignment.

COMP6021 Class 30 Block Matching Algorithms

We looked at sub-optimal block matching algorithms (BMAs) for motion compensated video compression. I got the feeling that students weren't especially interested in this.

COMP6023 DCOM1b Classes 31 & 32

Students worked on the assignments. I am keen for students to finish soon. There is no reason to delay. Students already have all the information they need to complete all the assignments.

COMP6023 ITM1 Classes 31 & 32 Labs

Students worked on the assignments. I am keen for students to finish soon. There is no reason to delay. Students already have all the information they need to complete all the assignments.

COMP6023 DNET1/COM1c Class 30 Transparency, PNG, & Video

There were only 8 students in class and not all of them were awake.

We looked at transparency and the PNG format.

I outlined how video compression works.

COMP6021 Class 29 Video Compression

We looked a Bi-directional prediction and Block Matching.

I gave students a short exercise to see how time consuming block matching is.

COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 30 Legal Issues

I talked a little bit about libel, hate speech, and community standards.

We began looking at copyright and will continue in the next class.

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COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 29 Transparency, PNG, Video Compression

We looked at Transparency and PNGs.

We looked a little bit at how video compression works. Students who want so know more can find more detail in COMP6021 classes.

COMP6023 DCOM1 Class 26 GIF & JEPG

We looked at GIF & JPEG

COMP6021 Class 28 Video Compression

We began our look at video compression. We will continue with video compression in the next class.

We mentioned frame rates in class. I capture the lectures at a mere 1 frame per second.

COMP6023 DWEB1 Classes 27 & 28 Dithering lab

Students did a dithering exercise using Photoshop.