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The Importance of Intellectual Property

Wa sat. I mean, prised by b bother jobbers. The son li es was like winning the lottery. Iwas my dea come true./nAnd also, my my income at the time was probably enough, sub one thousand dollars a month. So i'm paying some of my bills, still getting help from my parents and my sister, my grandmother, probably, they would always bring over food whenever they visited. U know the tale, youre gong to matce, take some food./nAnd the job i tool yo, which was foresee tat, i took it for a few reasons. First, they allowed me to retain the intellectual property to the code i was creating rights. Normally when you join a company like google, you sign over the rights to everything you create. There. Count like a musician giving away their masters. And a i to me, ip writes were incredible importance. I don't only want to work for comhowthiy would allow me to keep that? How were you so smart to know that at 20?/nI just read a lot of./nWred, a lot on lines. So ye, people talk about this. And also, coming from a music background, i was very young, oor studied a ton of music history, and was very familiar with the moton artist, and others that, oh, ye, their sort of original work just signed every./nThe main takeaway from.

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