Hello Everyone! My name is Natalie Pernites, and I am excited to be apart of this program. After watching the introductory video on copyright, I have learned a couple of things. I knew that there were copyright laws out there, but I did not know that you can really copyright anything! The line that suck out to me from the video was ” you can even copyright your kindergartner’s photo”! I found that very interesting. I also learned that if a school is unsure if it violates copyright law or not, they will most likely lean towards assuming that it is. After hearing that, it makes sense; the school doesn’t want to be in hot water.
After watching the video, I do have two questions that I am curious about. As I stated earlier, I learned that anything can be copyrighted and that it is easy to take and change a little, so where does Wattpad fit into this? Does Wattpad get some of the money since these authors post on their site or just the author and are they both protected under the same copyright? My other question is where does fan fiction fit into this copyright scheme? If people are taking characters from other work and writing fan fiction on them, is it technically copyright infringement?
Natalie Pernites 
For those who don’t know, Wattpad is a self-publishing author site. They say that the copy and paste function has been disabled to prevent people from taking one another’s work.
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I too thought it was interesting about the Kindergarten picture being copyrighted. It makes sense though. I wrote a story when I was in 1st grade and my sister stole it. To this day she says it does not count because it was not copyrighted. Now I am off to go tease her!
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