Copyright

How can you protect your work through copyright if it is an automatic right?
The easiest form of copyrighting your work is adding the © symbol, your name (if you are the owner, if you are not, add the owners name) and the year the piece of work was created. These three steps will cover you if anyone should question where the work came from and who the owner is. 

How does copyright effect you?
When you copyright your work it means that your work is protected from being used without your permission. Simply adding a © symbol will ensure that your work is protected from others.

How to ensure that you don't infringe:
There are a few different ways of ensuring that you do not accidentally infringe. Copyright protects the physical work itself not the idea so if you have an amazing idea and find out that someone else has also had that idea then document all research and reference and it will cover your tracks. If the thought crosses your mind that you might have accidentally infringed then you need to ask yourself if you have copied their work or not.

BA (Hons) Degree

You can go into a wide range of careers with a BA (Hons) Degree and can also enroll onto a postgraduate or masters course. There are a lot of different path ways you can take when you have a Degree in Illustration; here are a select few: 

- Fashion Illustrator
- Book Illustrator
- Printmaker
- Publishing
- Postgraduate study; MA 
- Magazine Illustrator
- Teaching
- Architecture 
- Commercial
- Engineering
- Medical
- Product Design
- Science 

After achieving a BA (Hons) Degree the skills you have learned throughout will be helpful with your future plans, whether it be a career in your chosen field or further education. These skills include; printmaking, experience with materials and equipment, problem-solving, concept development, research skills, communication skills, working with clients, promoting your own work and professional practice etc.

http://aub.ac.uk/all/extra/study-abroad/ba-study-abroad/
http://aub.ac.uk/all/extra/study-abroad/pre-masters-study-abroad/
http://aub.ac.uk/all/extra/study-abroad/illustration/

The Pitch

Last week we had to choose one option from the list below and we had to pitch it to the rest of our group.

•iMac

•21.5-inch: 2.7GHz
•Specifications
•2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5
•Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz
•8GB (two 4GB) memory
•1TB hard drive1•Intel Iris Pro graphics
•BlackBerry Smart Phone
•Q5
•iPhone 4s
•iPhone 5s
•HP ENVY 700-060ea Desktop PC Intel® Core™ i7-4770 processor
•Windows 8
•Hard drive: 2 TB
•Memory: 16 GB
•Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660
•Samsung SM-P600 Galaxy Note 3 10.1 16G
•Android™ 4.2 (Jelly Bean)
•298.9 pixels per inch
•Octa Core 1.9 GHz processor
•Android Apps available on Google Play
•MicroSD card slot
•iPad2 16G

I chose to pitch the iMac. 
I realise that there are many arguments regarding whether iMac's or PC is better. In my opinion I think they both have their strong points but I do believe that iMac's are better suited for our industry. I think this is because they are 'artist friendly' as they have many more creative tools and programs than a PC. 
A main reason people are thrown off by iMac's is the price. These people are right in saying that iMac's are very expensive but the product you get is worth the price.