Part one of this weeks reading involved the usage of copyrights. The reading explains how copyright works; such as when you work for a company, all your ideas and inventions will belong to the company you worked for and not actually belong to you. Most companies do this and some companies, through my experience, forbids you to do similar work outside of the company as a personal profit to yourself, such as family portrait studios. You sign a contract stating that you can not take photos outside of work for profit.
The reading also covers a doctrine known as the Fair Use Doctrine. This law basically covers that it is OK to use copyright materials for education purposes without permission as well as a few other things.
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