Economic Change

RAI Trade

Between the privatization of state-owned monopolies on the one hand and advances in information technology and e-commerce on the other, European economies are undergoing drastic changes to keep up with the times. Module one of this program focuses on institutional change, as the British electricity market undergoes privatization, while module two examines technological change through the case study of the German online bookstore ABC Bucherdienst, a part of Amazon.com. (30 minutes)

Managing Databases

ClickView Pty Limited

Data is of extremely limited value unless it can be quickly and easily sorted, searched, and linked to other data-tasks at which database management systems excel. This program takes viewers through the fundamentals of making and maintaining a database: creating a basic table structure, setting up relationships, creating a data capture form, formulating queries, setting up reports, and creating and running macros. Featured DBMSs include Oracle, DB2, Access, MySQL, 4D, and FileMaker Pro. Viewable/printable educational resources are available online. (26 minutes)

TEDTalks: Larry Lessig—How Creativity Is Being Strangled by the Law

TED

Harvard professor Larry Lessig has become a true hero to artists, authors, scientists, coders, and opiners everywhere as one of the founding authorities on copyright issues. As corporate interests have sought to rein in the forces of Napster and YouTube, Lessig has fought back, appearing recently before the U.S. Supreme Court to extend copyright protection from 50 to 70 years. The net’s most celebrated lawyer, Lessig chairs Creative Commons, a nuanced, free licensing scheme for individual creators, and is also the founder of the Center for Internet and Society. “Lessig has built a reputation as the king of Internet law and as the most important next-wave thinker on intellectual property,” says New York Magazine. In this TEDTalk, he cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the “ASCAP cartel” in his argument for reviving our creative culture.

Microeconomics: Understanding the Market System

ClickView Pty Limited

Using easy-to-understand visuals and explanations, this program explores the branch of economics that focuses on the elasticity or sensitivity of consumers at the household level and of producers at the company level. Viewers are introduced to the central problem of scarcity and the allocation of limited resources in order to produce (and consume) goods and services. Main concepts include the market system, the law of supply and demand, price elasticity, market structures, market failures, and governmental responses to those failures. Other terms students will encounter include production capacity, price floor, price ceiling, perfect competition, monopoly and monopolistic competition, and oligopoly. Viewable/printable educational materials are available online. (20 minutes)

Municipal Court in Cuba, 1996

The WPA Film Library

Cuba: inside a municipal courtroom, court in session; panel of 3 judges, of defendant giving testimony, stenographer working Copyright The WPA Film Library.

This Day In History: December 31, 1983 – AT&T Broken up, Last Day of Ma Bell

The WPA Film Library

AT&T's monopoly of the U.S. telephone industry ends.

Understanding Intellectual Property

Seven Dimensions

In this film, learn about intellectual property law and contractsfrom lawyer Angela Perry. She explains intellectual property ownership, why it can be unclear whether an employee or a business owns ideas, and how to clarify these boundaries in employment contracts. She explains the ownership and transfer of intellectual property, and distinguishes IP, copyright and trademarks. She differentiates and explains confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements. She explains how a company can value IP as an asset. She explains the difference between ownership of domain names and business names.

Deluged By Data: The Infobesity Epidemic

Point du Jour International

We live in an era when we are obsessed and bombarded by data—whether we love it or loathe it. The average person now takes more photos in a month than the whole planet did 50 years ago. Visit a rock concert and there are more camera flashes than lighting effects, more cell phones clicks than musical notes. Endless new fitness, health, and biofeedback apps are overwhelming us with vast amounts of raw personal information. Some experts think we all suffer from data overload and “infobesity “—and need a “data diet.” We’ll meet the data lovers and skeptics and wired, tired people who go ZERO TECH to escape being deluged by data.

Monopoly—Economics U$A: 21st Century Edition

Annenberg Learner

In 1890, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act broke up the monopoly that John D. Rockefeller and his company, Standard Oil, had on the oil industry. In 1914, the federal government was sold on the concept of universal telephone service provided by Ma Bell, a monopoly that was ended by the development of a new technology. In 1998, the U.S. government filed a suit against the world's largest software company, Microsoft, for participating in anti-competitive practices. These stories explain what monopolies are, and why government sometimes chooses to intervene.

Beyond Innovation: Episode 5

A Tall Order Limited

A digital bank eliminates branches, an algorithm learns your shopping habits and a robot trains to save lives. Plus, Anthony and Michael speak with the man investing Snoop Dogg’s money. Hosted by venture capitalist Anthony Lacavera and technology journalist Michael Bancroft. Other featured guests include: Anne Boden, CEO, Starling Bank; Paris Petgrave, Co-Founder and CEO, We Love Work; Jessi Baker, Founder and CEO, Provenance; Karan Wadhera, Managing Partner, Casa Verde Capital and Dr. Alex Allan, Co-Founder and CTO, Kortical.

Big Data, Big Business

CINEFETE

Data is transforming our lives, our work, and the way we think. Through phones, screens, and connected objects, we are creating billions of bytes of data every day. To understand the complexity of this revolution, we travel to four major cities in the world—San Francisco, New York, London, and Paris—to find out how companies like Rocket Fuel, which specializes in data analysis, are changing marketing and online advertising and transforming visitors into consumers. The Economist’s data editor, Kenneth Cukier, and French data specialist Gilles Babinet fully agree: the data war has already begun. All companies are part of it, and one of their primary missions is to reassure consumers on the safety and protection of their personal data.

Business Law

ClickView Pty Limited

Businesses are regulated and governed by a range of laws that exist to provide a framework for fair and proper management and operation of their activities, and to deliver protection to all stakeholders including customers, managers and employees. This film covers a range of legal aspects of business including consumer protection, employee rights, health and safety, intellectual property, privacy and financial reporting. It highlights interviews with a selection of experts in various fields including Neil Willard from Cardiff University, solicitors Jonathan Bashforth and Ruth Smith, European Patent Attorney Richard Howson, Managing Director of Sold Out Software Garry Williams and Tax Manager David Goodchild. It also features street interviews.

Understanding Intellectual Property

ClickView Pty Limited

Why should students value their own and others’ intellectual property? What exactly is intellectual property? This interview led program builds an understanding of: intellectual property; exceptions to copyright; registering IP; why students should be aware of the terms and agreements of social media sites, what Creative Commons is and the different licences, why an IP holder may wish to share material; and what it means when material is in the public domain. A great resource for encouraging students to value IP.

Data Mining: Big Data's Increasing Challenge and Payoff

Films for the Humanities & Sciences

Just as raw materials buried in the Earth yield the occasional gem, raw data can also be mined for value. And as the amount of information available for analysis grows with every bar-code scan and Facebook post, the world of Big Data represents a seemingly endless wellspring of opportunity. But what does data mining involve, exactly? How are the findings used, and why? This program explores the methods, processes, and key functions of data analysis with help from eye-catching graphics and interviews with industry experts. Outlining the applications of data mining in biomedical research, health care, and other scientific arenas, the video also highlights its uses in business, from marketing to risk analysis to retail sales statistics. Privacy and other ethical issues round out the list of topics discussed in this timely, in-depth film. Viewable/printable educational materials are available online. A Films for the Humanities & Sciences Production. (25 minutes)

e-Pirates of the Digital Age: Copyright Issues in Software and Music

ClickView Pty Limited

Piracy is having significant financial impacts on the music, video game, and software industries. Piracy is also affecting the type of music that is being produced and limiting the amount of software available to the public. This program looks at Internet piracy, covering use of copyrighted information, software copyright law, the facts and figures surrounding piracy, and respect of intellectual property. Industry professionals and musicians alike have their say, and help inform viewers as to how piracy affects their livelihoods. Produced in Australia. A viewable/printable worksheet is available online. (26 minutes)

Downloaded

Cinetic Rights Management LLC.

This film tells the story of Napster and its cofounders, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker; the legal battle against it by the recording industry; the failure of the music industry and Napster to reach any agreement; and the eventual fall of Napster. It presents the music industry as foolish for failing to realize that piracy could not ultimately be contained, and for failing to see the opportunities technology presented. It presents the idealism and excitement that surrounded the internet in the 1990s, treating Napster as the embodiment of those ideals. It argues that these ideals continue to thrive and will ultimately triumph.

Non-Alignment Conference, 1955

British Pathe

Non-alignment conference in Bandung: Nations of the Third World (Asia/Africa) attempting to forge solidarity on basis of their status Copyright The WPA Film Library.

Joy of Data

DCD Rights Limited

This high-tech romp reveals exactly what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared, and made sense of. Meet Dr. Hannah Fry who sees data as the essential bridge between two universes; Claude Shannon, who devised a way to digitize all information and launched the ‘information age’; and Donald Davies, the inventor of packet switching. Along the way the film reveals the connection between Scrabble scores and online movie streaming, explains why a herd of Wiltshire dairy cows are wearing pedometers, and uncovers the remarkable network map of Wikipedia.

Introduction to Information Literacy

Motion Masters

Information Literacy is a crucial skill in obtaining knowledge. In this episode, learn how to find credible sources on the internet, read and evaluate a topic critically, and notate your sources. Ethical issues are also addressed.

Intellectual Property and the Internet

Promedion/American MultiMedia

Tracing the origins of the Internet, this program examines intellectual property issues related to trademarks and domain names. It discusses copyrights, derivative works, fair use, and the public domain. It also looks at social media and copyright issues and considers laws and acts relating to intellectual property and the Internet, such as DMCA and OCILLA.

Getting Out of Business: Privatization and the Modern State

The Blackwell Corporation

This program chronicles the rise and fall of the concept that government does a better job of providing transportation, power, or even employment, than does private enterprise. Case by case and country by country, it explains the philosophy of governmental involvement in business and examines the consistent results. The viewpoint is skewed in favor of private ownership and the privatization of government-owned or run industry; but the facts adduced are fair and equable, and the omitted arguments in favor of government intervention will spark research and lively discussion of the entire role of government. (59 minutes)

The Presidents: 1885-1913

History Education

This program presents the American presidency of the Gilded Age, an era of unbridled economic growth that saw the completion of Manifest Destiny. It includes Grover Cleveland’s two nonconsecutive terms in office, William McKinley’s assassination, Theodore Roosevelt’s antitrust assaults on monopolies, and William Howard Taft’s political estrangement from his mentor and friend, TR. Distributed by A&E Television Networks. A part of the series The Presidents. (45 minutes)

The Patent Wars

Global Screen GmbH

This documentary uncovers who profits from intellectual property, and who bears the economic and social consequences. In 2012, giant technology companies like Apple and Google invested more money into patent infringement lawsuits than they spent on the development of new innovations. But it is not a virtual war being fought only over market shares and equity prices. Filmmaker Hannah Leonie Prinzler interviews British inventor James Dyson and American business gurus in Silicon Valley. She visits the world’s patent headquarters in Geneva and travels to India, the world’s largest manufacturer of generic medicines. She investigates India’s measures to protect genetic resources and meets Anil Gupta, the “Gandhi of Innovation.” Finally, she tours an Arizona warehouse where the first open-source car is being developed.

Pay 2 Play: Democracy's High Stakes

TDC Entertainment

In PAY 2 PLAY, filmmaker John Ennis examines how corporations have taken over our democracy as he follows outsiders using their voice to change the game in American politics. He ventures through high drama on the Ohio campaign trail, uncovers the secret history of America’s favorite game, Monopoly, and explores the underworld of Los Angeles street art in a humorous odyssey that reveals how much of a difference one person can make.

Beyond Innovation: Episode 10

A Tall Order Limited

A software platform unifies disparate data, a thousand drones set a world record, and a healthcare startup helps reverse diabetes. Plus, Michael and Anthony speak with astronaut Scott Kelly about what it will take to put humans on Mars. Hosted by venture capitalist Anthony Lacavera and technology journalist Michael Bancroft. Other featured guests include: Girish Pancha, Co-Founder & CEO, StreamSets; Mark Palatucci, Co-Founder, Head of Cloud AI & Machine Learning, Anki; Andra Keay, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Robotics and Sami Inkinen, Founder & CEO, Virta Health.

Beyond Innovation: Episode 14

A Tall Order Limited

Researchers send smells over the Internet, a startup brings the eBay model to the trucking industry and a flying car comes closer to becoming a reality. Plus, famous geneticist George Church explains why he’s willing to pay you to sequence your genome. Hosted by venture capitalist Anthony Lacavera and technology journalist Michael Bancroft. Other featured guests include: Jonathan Salama, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Transfix; Brian Streem, CEO, Aerobo; Ido Gur, CEO, Easy Aerial and Britt Myers, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Homer.

Piracy: Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley

DCD Rights Limited

The Pirate Bay is one of the largest file sharing sites in the world, founded in Sweden in 2003 by Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, and Peter Sunde. Faced with extreme pressure from the US-led entertainment industry, the founders were tried for copyright infringement in 2009. Ben Hammersley visits Stockholm to tell the story of the internet trial of the century and looks at how it affected our relationship with Big Media, copyright, and the notion of ownership online.

Data Storage

CNN

2.5 quintillion—this is the number of bytes of data we produce globally every day. The classic large server rooms we're used to seeing are no longer viable, so the race is on to find a way to store more data in less space. We explore two approaches to the future of data storage: firstly with a visit to Cambridge to see how a European-wide group of scientists is using synthetic DNA to store data, and the potential is mind-boggling—you could store 2.2 million gigabytes in two grams of DNA, or put another way, all the digital information on the planet in a shoebox. DNA is stable to a point and can last for thousands of years, but a group of scientists in Southampton have developed a way of transferring information into glass in a five-dimensional shape. You could store 360,000 GB in a tiny sliver of glass and it could last for billions of years.