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Paid Licenses

2:21 with Wilt Chaimberlain

You pay for licenses more often than you might realize. And often paying for something online doesn't mean owning it.

[Chris Zabriskie] You pay for licenses way more often than you think you do. 0:00
So whether you're watching this video on a Windows PC, on a Mac, our own iPad app, 0:03
or on a smartphone, you paid for and agreed to license the operating system software 0:09
running your device right now. 0:15
If you've ever bought a digital version of a video game, 0:17
whether on Steam, Xbox, or Play Station 0:20
you agreed to a license right before you submitted payment. 0:23
The same goes for that Adobe creative cloud account. 0:26
You're licensing all of that software. 0:29
It's not like owning a set of dishes that you can do whatever you want with. 0:31
You don't own a copy of Windows 8, for example. 0:36
You paid for a license to use it. 0:40
Basically any creative work you paid for on the web 0:42
includes a license agreement of some kind. 0:46
This can even include code. 0:49
Code Canyon is a good examplee of a site that sells, as they say, 0:51
scripts and snippets of html5, php, javascript, WordPress themes, and more. 0:55
Remember code is copyrightable. 1:02
JW Player is another premium code example. 1:05
It's a very popular media player on the web. 1:09
You probably run into it all the time without realizing it. 1:11
They charge a monthly fee to remove their watermark and to add further functionality. 1:14
So do you remember earlier when we talked about fonts? 1:19
How you can't copyright a typeface, but you can copyright a font? 1:22
Well, fonts are copyrightable and there are lots of places online to buy a font 1:27
for use in your own projects. 1:32
My Fonts is one of the most popular destinations for fonts on the Internet, 1:34
both paid and free. 1:39
Adobe has their own font store as well. 1:40
But even if you're downloading a font for free, 1:42
there's probably going to be a licensing agreement that accompanies it. 1:45
The web is full of great stuff you can purchase for use in your web and mobile projects. 1:48
Just remember that when you do buy something, 1:55
read the license agreement before agreeing to it. 1:57
I know it's hard and we're used to just saying, "Yeah, whatever, just agree, get me whatever I'm buying." 2:01
But when you buy a font, or a photograph, or a code smippet, or whatever, 2:06
and you don't realize that in the agreement it says you can only use it in a single website at a time, 2:10
or maybe only in sites of a certain size, 2:16
that's important to know in advance. 2:18