A Creator's Rights & Responsibilities
Lesson 4
It’s common for kids to use images they find online, for school projects or just for fun. But ids don’t often understand which images are OK to use and which ones aren’t. Help your students learn about the rights and responsibilities they have when it comes to the images they create and use.
Essential Question:
What rights and responsibilities do you have as a creator?
Students will be able to:
Define “copyright” and explain how it applies to creative work.
Describe their rights and responsibilities as creators.
Apply copyright principles to real-life scenarios.
Key Vocabulary
attribute
giving credit to the person who created something, such such as listing the author?۪s name and date, or a citation
copyrights
legal protection that a creators have over the things they create
intellectual property
the ownership of something you create, giving you a right to how others use it
license
a clear way to define the type of copyright creative work has so others know how they can use it
plagiarism
using someone's creative work without providing attribution or credit
