A four-session high school unit on the four kinds of intellectual property, fair use, and the question your student is already living with: who owns what an AI makes.

Nico Brackett is building an apparel brand out of a spare bedroom. His graphics are copyrighted, his brand name is a trademark, the zipper pull he invented could be patented, and his dye formula is a trade secret — four different protections, four different rules. Then he starts generating artwork with AI, and the ownership question stops being theoretical.

If your student makes anything — art, music, code, video, writing they post online — this unit is about their work, not somebody else's.

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Written by a licensed K-12 business teacher with more than thirteen years in the classroom. Built to be taught by a parent with no background in the subject.