Protecting your own work
There are a few exceptions to this rule:
- If you produce work for your employer as part of your job, your employer usually owns the copyright, unless you have a contract that assigns the copyright to someone else.
- When you create a "work for hire". That is when someone pays you money to create something. In that case, the copyright belongs to them.
There's a phrase for those things that we create. It's "intellectual property".
"Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce." -- World Intellectual Property Organization
Here's the checklist for what we will cover in this section of the tutorial:
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After completing this section of the tutorial, you will:
- Identify what is needed to establish copyright for your own works
- Identify different types of Creative Commons licenses
- Identify strategies for working with publishers