A Creator's Responsibilities

Post date: Apr 5, 2017 5:32:26 PM

  • Students will be able to ...consider ethical questions about real-life decisions young creators make in exercising their creative rights and responsibilities

  • understand that piracy and plagiarism are irresponsible and disrespectful behaviors that have ethical and legal implications.

  • brainstorm solutions to dilemmas creators might encounter.

Vocabulary

Piracy: the stealing of copyrighted work by downloading or copying it in order to keep, sell, or give it away without permission and without paying

Plagiarism: the copying, “lifting,” or making slight changes to some or all of someone else’s work and saying you wrote it

cknowledge: giving credit to someone’s work you use by clearly stating their name, title of the work, a year it was made, and a hyperlink

Can you remember when you last copied, downloaded, or shared some type of creative work? Can you think of a time when you used someone else’s work in something you made?

We must EMPHASIZE to you that we often use copyrighted work in our everyday lives: 1) We use and enjoy media as consumers, and 2) We incorporate media into their own creations (blogs, mash-ups, etc.). Whether we are just using the material for enjoyment or using it to create a new work, I must remind you that you should be responsible and respectful of other people’s creative work by providing proper credit. Often this is simply mentioning when you got it from. When we share on social media, the origin often follows. Henry’s StoryHenry's Story Video

There are right and wrong ways to use copyrighted work. People who pirate or plagiarize not only risk getting in trouble at school or with the law, but their behavior is also unethical and disrespectful to creators. Students should always show respect for the creative work they use by acknowledging — or giving credit to — the work they use. Provide an example of a citation (e.g., a bibliography of a book). Reflection and Discussion of Case StudiesDownload to your Dochub the A Creators Responsibility. As a class, we will review the Case Studies.