Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons: An Active-Learning Exercise for Studio Art Students

Authors

Arthur J. Boston, Murray State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Peer Reviewed/Refereed Publication

Publication Date

1-15-2020

Publication Title

Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship

Department

University Libraries - Public Services

College/School

University Libraries

Abstract

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.

Comments

Supplements for this article, including the worksheet, activity slide presentation, and students examples are freely available on the publisher site.

https://www.jcel-pub.org/jcel/article/view/8193

Recommended Citation

Boston, A. J. (2020). Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons: An Active-Learning Exercise for Studio Art Students. Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 3(3), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v3i3.8193

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.