KopyKat File 8: Work For Hire
On 01.26.10, in KopyKat Files
If you are a designer, your bread and butter is your creative work. Unfortunately, the internet and other digital technologies have made it easier for copycats to steal your work or pass it off as their own. The law of copyright is there to protect you. But if you don’t know how copyright works or how you can use it to protect your work, it is pretty useless.
In this series of articles, we hope to arm you with some working knowledge on copyright and how you can use it to protect your creative work.
What is copyright?
Without getting into the legalese, copyright is basically the right to stop other people from copying, publishing or adapting your creative work without your permission.
Looking at from the opposite angle, the owner of the copyright in an original work has the exclusive right to copy it, publish it, display it, distribute it, or make new works from it.
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