Team Teach: Legal and Ethical Property #12
Description
Popcorn Hack 1:
Example: Painting
If you buy a painting from an artist, you own the physical piece, but the artist still owns the rights to the actual drawing on the artwork itself. This means you can hang it on your wall or sell it as you own the physical copy, but you can’t make copies or use it for commercial purposes without the artist’s permission since you don't own the "content" of the piece itself - that is the artist's intellectual property. But, if you hire someone to create a piece for you and the contract clearly states that all the rights are transferred to you, then the intellectual property is yours as well. In that case, you’re free to modify, distribute, or sell the artwork however you want.
Popcorn hack 2:
License: CC BY-ND for Trimester 2 Project: No derivatives allowed at all. (just an example)
CC BY-ND, suits our repository the best as our project will not be open-source and is for public use or viewing. The nature of our repository means that we do not want any copies to be made of it, and want the sole ownership of the code we produce. Therefore, it makes the most sense to have a BY-ND project which prohibits derivatives of our project - we do not want the work our group did for our project in trimester 2 to be copied by anyone - as the intent isn't to share and improve an existing issue in the world.