# Making something

Digital content creation: making, changing, and who owns it.

7 screens, about three minutes. Pictures, almost no words.

## You make more than you think.

*Picture: One large box labelled a thing you made.*

A message, a list, a photograph, a form.

## Starting from nothing is rare.

*Picture: Two panels side by side. On the left, a blank page. On the right, the same page with three ruled lines and a green border.*

Most making is changing something that was already there.

## Somebody made it before you.

*Picture: A box labelled somebody else’s work with an arrow into a box labelled your version, and an amber padlock beside the first.*

Whether you may reuse it is a rule, not a feeling.

## Three answers, and you can find out which.

*Picture: Three boxes in a row labelled anyone may, ask first, and no, with the middle one amber.*

The licence is usually written on the thing.

## Put your name on it.

*Picture: A dashed frame labelled what you made holding a green box labelled your name.*

The same rule protects you.

## Do today

Open the last thing you made and check whether your name is anywhere on it.

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