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Hi, I'm Chris, part of the team here at Treehouse.

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Before I came to Treehouse, I worked for a large non-profit on the team that ran their website.

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One day we got a letter from a large stock photography company.

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They said, "Hey, you guys are using some of our images on your website

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"and you didn't pay for them, so here's a bill for thousands of dollars."

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It turns out a web designer who had left the company years ago,

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ahd just grabbed the images from who knows where, probably Google images,

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thinking it was no big deal.

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Well, it took a few years for it to be a big deal,

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but it was a big deal.

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If they hadn't left already, they probably would have lost their job over it.

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So knowing not to go to Google images for your sites content, is important for sure,

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but it's only the beginning when we're talking about copyright.

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Understanding the basics of copyright and licensing

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is important for anybody working in a creative field.

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That doesn't just mean film-makers and musicians.

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We're talking web designers, developers, mobile devs, you're all artists.

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The work that you creat is creative.

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You're not just hammering away on some factory assembly line.

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You're using your creativity to make websites, to make iPhone apps, whatever it is.

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And you not only create copyrighted works every day,

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you work with them, you use the copyrighted work of others

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whenever you install a new piece of software, add a stock photo to your site,

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even working with fonts requires a little bit of copyright knowledge.

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This series of videos is going to give you that good foundation of knowledge

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that will allow you to work within the law, to read license agreements,

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protect your own work, and even freely share what you create with the rest of the world.