Now that you can make a live website, it is important to take a moment to observe the etiquette, rules, and laws of working with web content. It's wrong to assume that you can just copy and paste text from another person's website as long as you credit the original author or that you can conduct an image search and just save what you find to use on your own page.

An abundance of created works are in digital format, and anybody can get hold of work presented on the web. To ensure people can rightfully claim their own work, inherent protections have been established.

Anything a person makes that requires thought and creativity is their intellectual property. Once people put their ideas and inventions into a tangible form (and this does include digital format), it belongs to them. Certain things that aren't unique to an individual, like facts, cannot be claimed as intellectual property. However, if a person writes an essay about a fact, nobody else can use the essay without the author's permission because it contains original, created work.

Advancements in AI technology and digital platforms have made it tricky to enforce ownership rights. When copyright infringement has been committed, how is it handled? Who is liable? How do we protect our work? Over the next few pages, we’ll discuss the concepts and resources that have come about to address creators' rights while still encouraging the sharing of ideas and creativity.