Lesson Objectives
- Define the key concepts of inspiration, appropriation, copyright, and fair use and examine how they relate to creative work.
- Understand the legal and ethical debates that surround using other people’s creative work.
- Consider the perspectives of the original creator, potential audiences, and the broader community when using others’ material.
Creative Work
- Vocabulary
- inspiration: something that influences, propels, or inspires you to create something new.
- appropriation: to use someone else’s creative work to make something new, often without their permission.
- Discussion:
- When you create things, do you ever get your inspiration from other people’s creative work? What are some examples?
- When you create things, do you ever appropriate, or use someone else’s creative work, to make something new? What are some examples?
Copyright and Fair Use
- Vocabulary
- copyright: a law that protects ownership of and control over the work someone creates, requiring other people to get the creator’s permission before they copy, share, or perform that work.
- fair use: the ability to use a small amount of copyrighted work without permission, but only in certain ways.
- The creative work of others is protected by copyright. To use copyrighted work legally and ethically, they must observe the following rules:
- Copyright Rules
- Check who owns it
- Get permission to use it
- Give credit to the creator
- Buy it (if necessary)
- Use it responsibly
- Copyright Rules
- Sometimes it is legal to use other people’s creative work under the principle of fair use, but only if you give them credit and use it in certain ways.
- Fair Use Rules
- Use a small amount (not the whole thing)
- Rework and use the material in a different way from the original work
- Add new meaning to the material and make something new out of it
- Don’t use the material for profit, and use it only for certain purposes, which include:
- schoolwork and education
- news reporting
- criticism or social commentary
- comedy or parody
- Fair Use Rules
Assignment DCU3.5
- Obtain your group members from your instructor as well as your group description from below:
- Musicians who use sampling and remixing in the music they create
- Musicians who have been sampled or remixed without credit, permission, or payment
- Fans who like both kinds of musicians
- People in the recording industry who make money from selling music
- Lawyers whose job is to protect artists from copyright violations
- Make a copy of this Google Document, rename it Music Industry-(Your Initials), and move it into your Lesson 3 folder. Complete the assigned tasks from the instructions within the document.
Assignment DCU3.6
- After completing the assigned tasks in Lesson 3 above, share your Lesson 3 folder with your teacher. Your folder should have the following files in it:
- Respect
- Photo Book
- Video Piracy
- Music Industry
Lesson 3 Quiz-DCU
- Complete the Lesson 3 Quiz for the Digital Citizenship Unit.
