Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons

This article describes an active-learning exercise intended to help teach copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons licenses. In the exercise students use a worksheet to draw original pictures, create derivative pictures on tracing paper, select Creative Commons licenses, and explore commercial usag...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arthur Jason Boston
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas Libraries 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship
Online Access:https://www.jcel-pub.org/article/view/8193
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Summary:This article describes an active-learning exercise intended to help teach copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons licenses. In the exercise students use a worksheet to draw original pictures, create derivative pictures on tracing paper, select Creative Commons licenses, and explore commercial usage, fair use, and copyright infringement. Librarian-instructors may find the completed worksheets to be useful aids to supplement copyright lectures; student perspectives will be integral because they are generating the examples used in discussion. Although a scholarly communication librarian developed this exercise to help introduce some basic copyright information to an undergraduate studio art and design class, the exercise can be performed in a general educational setting.
ISSN:2473-8336