In John Ipolito’s lecture, he touched on the program Publisher a bit while discussing how people can add their own copyright license onto their own work. In today’s society, things can be posted on the internet and go completely viral and the original place where this thing was posted becomes unimportant. It is important to have a way that your piece can lead back to the artist that created it because even if it is all over the internet, it was made by a person and they deserve the credit.

I also liked the challenge of only using 3 clicks to change a file completely. It is important to have the original file of any web based piece if you are trying to modify it. It becomes difficult to try and work with a file that is in its final form. His 3 click challenge successfully showed how computer files can be easily modified when in their original form.

As a web artist myself, I have been affected by both of these issues. There are many new ways of making sure your art is always sourced back to you but that all depends on what platform you’re showing your work on. Some blogging sites are much more lax about sources and people can delete your title or remove the source. I am much more cautious on these sites and don’t post anything that is a completed piece without making sure I have artistic credit.