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You pay for licenses more often than you might realize. And often paying for something online doesn't mean owning it.
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[Chris Zabriskie] You pay for licenses way more often than you think you do.
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So whether you're watching this video on a Windows PC, on a Mac, our own iPad app,
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or on a smartphone, you paid for and agreed to license the operating system software
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running your device right now.
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If you've ever bought a digital version of a video game,
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whether on Steam, Xbox, or Play Station
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you agreed to a license right before you submitted payment.
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The same goes for that Adobe creative cloud account.
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You're licensing all of that software.
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It's not like owning a set of dishes that you can do whatever you want with.
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You don't own a copy of Windows 8, for example.
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You paid for a license to use it.
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Basically any creative work you paid for on the web
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includes a license agreement of some kind.
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This can even include code.
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Code Canyon is a good examplee of a site that sells, as they say,
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scripts and snippets of html5, php, javascript, WordPress themes, and more.
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Remember code is copyrightable.
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JW Player is another premium code example.
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It's a very popular media player on the web.
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You probably run into it all the time without realizing it.
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They charge a monthly fee to remove their watermark and to add further functionality.
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So do you remember earlier when we talked about fonts?
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How you can't copyright a typeface, but you can copyright a font?
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Well, fonts are copyrightable and there are lots of places online to buy a font
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for use in your own projects.
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My Fonts is one of the most popular destinations for fonts on the Internet,
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both paid and free.
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Adobe has their own font store as well.
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But even if you're downloading a font for free,
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there's probably going to be a licensing agreement that accompanies it.
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The web is full of great stuff you can purchase for use in your web and mobile projects.
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Just remember that when you do buy something,
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read the license agreement before agreeing to it.
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I know it's hard and we're used to just saying, "Yeah, whatever, just agree, get me whatever I'm buying."
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But when you buy a font, or a photograph, or a code smippet, or whatever,
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and you don't realize that in the agreement it says you can only use it in a single website at a time,
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or maybe only in sites of a certain size,
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that's important to know in advance.
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