Internet Privacy in the new millennium

After this week's privacy status hoax on Facebook I thought it was a good time to speak about internet privacy specifically for artists. The nature of privacy and the importance of maintaining your rights to work as an artist has become an increasingly necessary discussion in the new millennium so we will talk about some of basics of copyright, privacy, rights, watermarks, wrongful appropriation, and digital citizenship today in class. At this point everyone should know the how to copyright your images in programs such as Adobe Photoshop but its also important to know some of the details of the agreements that we approve when using programs such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Blogs.  We will begin by reading the two articles and viewing the short video about the hoax posted below then we will have a discussion:

NY Times: Art Is Long; Copyrights Can Even Be Longer

NY Times: How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet

Newsy: Facebook Privacy Status Hoax Circulates

Here is a link to a page with some additional resources from the Art-Support group that deals with watermarking and copyright in artworks.