Just shows once again that being a good marketeer is often more important than being a good engineer.
What are the odds that Chris parlays this into a startup or a nice research position somewhere? Either way, the guy now has a TED presentation on his CV and the guys who did all the legwork have no legal recourse because I don't know of any OSI license has a clause about presenting the work as your own for non-commercial purposes.
The only way Chris will get busted is if TED decides to do so and expose themselves for their poor background checking which is a crap-shoot at best.
Sure but I can get up on stage at any conference and talk about copy-righted work all I like so I don't think it matters.
Copy-rights overwhelmingly are concerned with explicitly commercial uses. If I'm using copy-righted work to build up my academic reputation, I don't know if there's anything a copy-right holder can do as the link to money is too tenuous.
I think all the enforcement has to come from the academic side in cases such as these where reputation is all that's in play.
"What are the odds that Chris parlays this into a startup or a nice research position somewhere?"
Any research institution dumb enough to hire him based on work like that is probably not one worth working for. What he showed on stage was approximately the first 3 weeks of an undergrad computer vision project. Anyone who knows anything about AR knows that.
What is sad to me is that he clearly really wanted to be on TED, and if TED asked him to talk about his real work I'm sure we'd all love to watch it. But instead he spent an hour following a tutorial of some OTHER random new cool photogenic technology and TED decided that was good enough to put on their website, even though he personally added absolutely nothing to this technology.
What are the odds that Chris parlays this into a startup or a nice research position somewhere? Either way, the guy now has a TED presentation on his CV and the guys who did all the legwork have no legal recourse because I don't know of any OSI license has a clause about presenting the work as your own for non-commercial purposes.
The only way Chris will get busted is if TED decides to do so and expose themselves for their poor background checking which is a crap-shoot at best.