Intellectual property law affects every stage of the development and delivery process. Unfortunately, it’s daunting—and, even worse, often deadly boring. As a result, your decision making about what media resources you can actually use might be rooted in ignorance, fear, or frustration, none of which contributes to your project goals. As a result, it’s not uncommon to struggle with how to use free media to enhance your projects while also avoiding accidentally infringing on someone else’s work or exposing yourself to unpleasant legal action.

In this session, you’ll learn about copyright essentials through a surprisingly entertaining and easy-to-understand snapshot of the law and recent cases. Learn how to protect your own work and apply legal concepts, such as the fair use doctrine, to everyday scenarios and become more confident in finding sites that offer public domain, Creative Commons, and open access licensed works. Building this stronger understanding of how you can and can’t legally use media in your work will help you become more productive and focused as you maximize your financial and creative resources.

In this session, you will learn:

• About copyright law and fair-use basics
• Which recent court cases are interesting, relevant, and important
• How to protect your work and avoid being sued
• How to find awesome online media you can use
• About Creative Commons licenses and which are most accommodating
• How to correctly attribute media you use

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, project managers, managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
API for Creative Commons licenses and plugins for proper attribution of work.

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