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I'm going to walk you through the process of copyrighting something right now.

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This is a blank piece of paper.

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Nothing on it, nothing to copyright.

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But if I draw something real fast,

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I'll show you my skills.

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Copyright.

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That's it, that's literally it.

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I made it and now it belongs to me.

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No lawyers, no stamps, no little copyright symbol or date at the bottom.

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Just my drawing, no matter how crude, on a piece of paper.

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The second you've created something, it's copyrighted.

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It's yours.

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As long as what you've created is in some tangible form—

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you can see it, you can feel it, you can hear it, whatever,

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it is copyrighted.

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You can't copyright an idea if you haven't fixed it into some form that other people can see.

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You might have a great idea for a website,

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but unless you actually build that website in some form,

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it's not really yours yet—you can't copyright an idea.

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But what if someone has the same idea and builds something similar about the same time?

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How can you prove that yours was the original idea and the original work?

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We'll talk about it toward the end of the course, but for now,

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just know that creating the thing in the first place

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is far and away the most important step.

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If you have an idea, execute on it.

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Don't wait, make it.