This lesson, part of Createschool’s online learning modules for Transition Year students, covers the essentials of digital copyright. It introduces key concepts related to protecting creative digital media, arts, and music content. The course supports learning in subjects like podcasting, filmmaking, music production, and photography, accessible on various devices both at home and in school.

An explanation from Common Sense Education explains the importance of understanding copyright law and fair use for creators. It emphasizes the responsibility to use original works properly, giving credit to others while ensuring creators receive recognition for their own work, promoting ethical and respectful creativity.

Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT train on vast internet content, much of which isn’t licensed. Getty Images has sued major AI companies for copyright infringement, claiming unauthorized use of their visuals in training. A court ruling against AI firms could threaten the industry, highlighting a growing legal battle over AI and intellectual property rights.

This video explains digital twin technology, which creates virtual replicas of real-world products, processes, or places. Digital twins provide valuable insights that were previously difficult or impossible to obtain, making them essential for smart building applications and driving digital transformation across industries.

Digital twins provide virtual replicas of real-world products, revolutionizing industry and IoT by enabling system simulation and testing before physical prototypes exist. They optimize ongoing operations and, when combined with AI, unlock powerful new possibilities. Industry leaders like Siemens are already applying digital twin technology in practical, impactful ways.

Bioinformatics combines molecular biology and data science to analyze vast biological data sets, like genetic sequences, cell populations, or proteins. By using computational methods, it helps scientists understand complex biological information, making it crucial for advances in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology. The Utrecht Bioinformatics Center is a leader in this field.

The Economist explores generative AI, the technology powering a surge of popular online tools used globally. It covers the rapid advancements and growing adoption of the technology, detailing its strengths—such as creativity and efficiency—and its weaknesses, including issues like bias and contextual limitations.

Today, over one-third of U.S. adults own smart speakers, which provide convenience but also generate vast amounts of voice data. This data is used to improve algorithms and target ads, yet there is little transparency about how voice recordings are used or stored, and opting out is often difficult. Tech companies heavily promote these devices to collect valuable user data across many products.

Mick, a Dutch design researcher based in Amsterdam, merges experience in advertising, speculative design, and sustainability to investigate the relationship between physical and digital realms in smart cities. Through speculative design, Mick’s work with the Digital Society School seeks to imagine how digital twin technology will influence the future, affecting control, users, and industries such as healthcare, energy, and fashion.

This video by Vox reveals the detailed, time-intensive process behind creating AI-generated art. It follows the anonymous creator of "Stelfie," a time-traveling selfie character, showing how he maintains consistency using custom 3D heads, sketches, and extensive editing between Photoshop and the AI tool Stable Diffusion. 

The rise of streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu has revolutionized scripted television, offering diverse content but drastically changing how writers work and get paid. Currently, thousands of Writers Guild of America members are striking for better pay, rights, and protections against AI threats, highlighting how streaming has hurt writers’ incomes and career growth.

This video explores the challenging working conditions of Japanese animators, focusing on their low salaries, long hours, and tough job demands. It discusses why the industry remains harsh and resistant to change despite these difficulties. 

This Vox Almanac episode explores the breakthrough of rotoscoping, a technique invented by Max Fleischer that uses filmed footage as a model for animation, creating fluid, natural motion. It began with footage of Max’s brother Dave dancing as a clown, inspiring the classic Koko the Clown cartoons, and remains influential in animation today.

Pixar’s 1995 film Toy Story pioneered CGI animated features, inspiring many studios to adopt its high-quality, photorealistic style known as “The Pixar Look.” This led to visually similar films across the industry. Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse broke this mold with non-photorealistic rendering, creating a fresh, stylized look that has since gained widespread popularity and is expected to shape animation’s future.

DamiLee examines the distinctive artistry and craftsmanship of Studio Ghibli’s animated films—qualities that AI technology cannot reproduce. The video emphasizes the studio’s hand-drawn animation, heartfelt storytelling, and human touch, which together create a depth and warmth that AI-generated art and animation cannot match.

The premiere episode of the ReForm series explores advanced 3D face and body scanning technology used to create digital doubles for films, video games, and holograms. It highlights challenges faced by the Institute for Creative Technologies in achieving photorealistic virtual humans while overcoming the Uncanny Valley.

This episode explores the complexity behind motion capture in movies, video games, and TV, revealing that it’s not just about actors wearing suits but involves extensive editing and processing to create realistic animations. It highlights the importance of post-capture work and offers resources like Plask.ai and Mixamo for trying out motion capture tools firsthand.

In this video, VFX artists Wren and Jordan from Corridor Crew discuss the current state of digital actor technology amid Hollywood strikes. They explore whether advanced visual effects could realistically replace human actors in movies and TV, sharing insights on the capabilities and limitations of digital actor effects today.