Copyright compliance and fair Use
The following lesson would be taught before the first class research project. This lesson is adapted from lessons found on Teaching
Channel and Common Sense Media. Students
will engage in identifying copyright and fair use policies. After learning about the terms, and
specifically fair use and Creative Commons, students will work collaboratively
to decide how to use images in a mock project.
Objectives:
Key Terms:
As you watch the video, create a checklist below to help you remember the steps to using someone’s creative work.
1) _____________________________________________________________
2)_____________________________________________________________
3)_____________________________________________________________
4)_____________________________________________________________
5) _____________________________________________________________
- Students will identify legal and ethical issues associated with the use of creative work found on the Internet
- Students will determine whether an image could be used for a project through application of knowledge of copyright and fair use policies.
- Quick Write – imagine you are looking for a set of pictures to use for your Social Justice poster project. You conduct a Google Image search and find five different pictures that you want to use for the project. Is it okay to use the pictures? What procedures would you need to follow to use the pictures?
- Key Vocabulary Handout – once students have the handout, student groups will discuss each entry and generate two questions they have about the terms.
- Whip-Around the room having groups share their questions
- Allow other students to answer the questions; if no answer is available, chart the question for further research
- “Copyright and Fair Use Animation” video – as students watch the video, they create a checklist for fair use on their User Guide.
- Prompt students for the bulleted items in the check list … discuss what each entails
- Mad Men Activity – Hand out the Mad Men Activity Guide to groups. Student groups need to determine whether provided photographs (with copyright/fair use information) would be acceptable in a hypothetical ad campaign.
- Groups go through the photos and decide if, and how, an image could be used.
- Debrief the activity with the class.
- Exit Ticket – In your own words, describe the rules for using someone’s creative work from the Internet. Why are these rules important to know?
Key Terms:
- fair use: the ability to use a small amount of someone’s creative work without permission, but only in certain ways commercial purposes: a use in connection with a business, usually for profit
- copyright: a law that protects a creator’s ownership of and control over the work he or she creates, requiring other people to get the creator’s permission before they
- copy, share, or perform that work
- Creative Commons: a kind of copyright that makes it easy for people to copy, share, and build on someone’s creative work – as long as they give the creator credit for it
- public domain: creative work that’s not protected by copyright and is therefore free for one to use however one wants
As you watch the video, create a checklist below to help you remember the steps to using someone’s creative work.
1) _____________________________________________________________
2)_____________________________________________________________
3)_____________________________________________________________
4)_____________________________________________________________
5) _____________________________________________________________
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