1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,380 [male narrator[ So what can you copyright? 2 00:00:02,380 --> 00:00:05,870 Can you copyright a whole website or just the code of it? 3 00:00:05,870 --> 00:00:09,660 Can you copyright a shirt, a tree? 4 00:00:09,660 --> 00:00:10,920 Hey, Fred. 5 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:11,770 [Fred] Yeah. 6 00:00:11,770 --> 00:00:13,370 [male narrator] I just copyrighted you. 7 00:00:13,370 --> 00:00:15,600 I didn't just copyright Fred. 8 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:16,800 You can't copyright a person. 9 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,340 So what can you copyright? 10 00:00:18,340 --> 00:00:23,130 Websites, the code, the design, and the content. 11 00:00:23,130 --> 00:00:26,930 Mobile apps, iPhone apps, Android apps, you name it. 12 00:00:26,930 --> 00:00:34,710 Videos and movies, songs, recordings of songs—those are 2 different things. 13 00:00:34,710 --> 00:00:42,590 Any kind of original text, including books, articles, website and advertising copy, and song lyrics. 14 00:00:42,590 --> 00:00:47,430 Paintings, sculptures, photographs. 15 00:00:47,430 --> 00:00:54,030 Drawings, video games, fonts—sort of, we'll come back to that in a second. 16 00:00:54,030 --> 00:00:55,710 Plugins. 17 00:00:55,710 --> 00:01:02,710 Frameworks, software, choreography, dance routines if you've recorded it. 18 00:01:02,710 --> 00:01:05,670 Buildings, actual buildings. 19 00:01:05,670 --> 00:01:08,830 Lots of stuff—creative stuff. 20 00:01:08,830 --> 00:01:11,660 Everytime you snap a photo on your smartphone, 21 00:01:11,660 --> 00:01:13,820 that's beautiful, 22 00:01:13,820 --> 00:01:16,280 it's copyright you, this one's copyright me. 23 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,910 Just building a website incorporates all sorts of those things. 24 00:01:19,910 --> 00:01:24,510 From the code and design to photography, the actual text on the website, 25 00:01:24,510 --> 00:01:28,450 a lot of the frameworks and software you use to create and to host it. 26 00:01:28,450 --> 00:01:29,940 All sorts of stuff. 27 00:01:29,940 --> 00:01:32,040 Are you starting to see why copyright's important? 28 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,050 It's not just for the things you make, 29 00:01:34,050 --> 00:01:38,350 but also understanding how to work with the copyrighted materials of others. 30 00:01:38,350 --> 00:01:41,180 We'll be covering that in more detail in the next stage. 31 00:01:41,180 --> 00:01:44,650 So wait, what can't be copyrighted? 32 00:01:44,650 --> 00:01:47,260 Fred cannot be copyrighted. 33 00:01:47,260 --> 00:01:48,950 What else? 34 00:01:48,950 --> 00:01:52,650 Anything not fixed in a tangible form of expression. 35 00:01:52,650 --> 00:01:54,330 So what does that mean? 36 00:01:54,330 --> 00:01:56,800 Basically, it means ideas. 37 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,850 Like we discussed already, you can't just say that you thought of something first. 38 00:02:00,850 --> 00:02:03,780 So it's not enough to have a great idea for an app. 39 00:02:03,780 --> 00:02:08,570 You actually have to make it, you have to put it into that tangible form of expression. 40 00:02:08,570 --> 00:02:11,780 Titles and slogans. 41 00:02:11,780 --> 00:02:15,840 You can't copyright the title of a movie, of a book, an app, 42 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,930 a website, a business, or a song. 43 00:02:17,930 --> 00:02:20,810 Fonts. 44 00:02:20,810 --> 00:02:22,840 I know, I said you could copyright fonts. 45 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:24,870 But you sort of can't. 46 00:02:24,870 --> 00:02:26,970 But you totally can. 47 00:02:26,970 --> 00:02:28,440 It's complicated. 48 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,060 Basically, when we're talking about fonts, 49 00:02:30,060 --> 00:02:33,040 we're really talking about 2 different things. 50 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:38,310 A typeface is the design of the actual letters and numbers. 51 00:02:38,310 --> 00:02:43,620 A font is really a piece of software that tells your computer to display a typeface. 52 00:02:43,620 --> 00:02:49,540 So the design of the letters, the shape of them, the typface is not covered by copyright law. 53 00:02:49,540 --> 00:02:52,110 But you can copyright software. 54 00:02:52,110 --> 00:02:57,130 And a font, as a piece of software, is covered by copyright. 55 00:02:57,130 --> 00:03:01,060 Basically, you should always assume when working with a font on the web, 56 00:03:01,060 --> 00:03:03,390 that the font is copyrighted. 57 00:03:03,390 --> 00:03:07,140 We'll talk a little bit more about fonts when we get to licensing later on. 58 00:03:07,140 --> 00:03:12,420 Familiar symbols, that includes numbers and the alphabet. 59 00:03:12,420 --> 00:03:16,570 Can you imagine if the alphabet was copyrighted and everybody had to pay to use it? 60 00:03:16,570 --> 00:03:20,810 The person who owned the copyright would be rich, but that wouldn't work out so well for the rest of us. 61 00:03:20,810 --> 00:03:24,500 Works created by the United States government. 62 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:29,700 That includes laws, speaches given by the President, reports, that sort of thing. 63 00:03:29,700 --> 00:03:31,710 Facts. 64 00:03:31,710 --> 00:03:36,140 I know that's sort of weird, but any sort of common knowledge. 65 00:03:36,140 --> 00:03:41,610 You can't copyright the fact taht the sun comes up in the morning and sets in the evening, I'm sorry. 66 00:03:41,610 --> 00:03:43,230 Fashion. 67 00:03:43,230 --> 00:03:47,630 Actual clothes, believe it or not, are not copyrightable. 68 00:03:47,630 --> 00:03:50,420 The design printed on them might be copyrighted, 69 00:03:50,420 --> 00:03:52,520 but fashion designs aren't. 70 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,430 Still, copying some else's runway design is a major fashion faux pas. 71 00:03:57,430 --> 00:04:00,730 Ingredients and recipes. 72 00:04:00,730 --> 00:04:05,920 Though if you make a cook book, you can copyright the photos, the descriptions, and other text. 73 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,370 But the recipe itself is not copyrightable. 74 00:04:09,370 --> 00:04:11,540 Blank media. 75 00:04:11,540 --> 00:04:14,260 Nothing on it—not copyrightable. 76 00:04:14,260 --> 00:04:17,110 And domain names. 77 00:04:17,110 --> 00:04:18,779 So you got all that? 78 00:04:18,779 --> 00:04:21,110 You see the difference? 79 00:04:21,110 --> 00:04:23,120 Take a quiz and prove it to me.