Week 8: Themes of Collaboration

Group Presentation 3: Intellectual Property (Interactive Architecture & GeriAmbiance ) 

For this weeks group presentations, two groups presented on the same topic of Intellectual Property. I found both groups to convey different ideas on the topic which kept both presentations interesting. 

Interactive Architecture took the conventional approach discussing terms and defining intellectual property by breaking it down into these categories:

• Patents 
• Trademarks 
• Designs 
• Copy-Right 
• Other such as Domains, Common law and Circuit Layouts    

Interactive Architecture used various specific example which was good when differentiating the types of intellectual property. These example included the Toyota Hybrid, Apples Retina Display and the apple vs Samsung law suit which were all patents. These real example were most engaging and images accompanied on slides clearly portrayed what they were talking about. Images however where not referenced. 

GeriAmbiance with the second presentation took a very different approach by relating Intellectual property to their project. They proposed as if their project was a running business and the problems/opportunities they would face. For example when using things such as the Microsoft Kinect you need authorisation from its owners (microsoft). Also when using the Crysis SDK the user must also download copies to view projects as you do not have the right to ship and version out. An important point was put forward to Investigate into these permissions. The slides and images were not engaging and not really any example shown on screen.