Presentation: Copyright in Art

Slide 1 of 7 · Settling starter · Art · Year 11

5 minutes

Copyright in art

You are the copyright checker for a Year 11 exhibition. Copyright in the UK is automatic: the moment you finish an original drawing, painting or photograph, you own it, and nobody may copy it, adapt it or put it on the internet without your permission or a licence.

While the register is called: write your name, class and date on your worksheet, then read sections 1 and 2 of the facts sheet, Copyright and licence facts. Highlight the counting rule for expiry dates.

Starter question: An artist died in 1939. On what exact date does copyright in their paintings expire?

DCF: Citizenship → Digital rights, licensing and ownership No computers needed · every fact you need is on the facts sheet

Slide 2 of 7 · Today’s brief and key words · Art · Year 11

2 minutes

Your brief: expiry dates, an exhibition audit, 2 printable credits

Part A: work out when copyright expires on 5 works. Part B: audit 6 situations from the exhibition and decide whether each use is allowed, and under which rule or licence. Part C: write 2 attribution lines that could be printed next to the work. Part D: one paragraph.

Adaptation

A remix, collage, tracing, crop or recolour of someone else’s work. Making one is an act copyright controls, so changing a work does not make it yours.

Creative Commons (CC)

Permission given in advance. 6 licences, all requiring credit. SA = ShareAlike, NC = NonCommercial, ND = NoDerivatives. CC0 is a public domain dedication, not a licence.

TASL

A usable credit names Title, Author, Source and Licence, and says what you changed.

DCF: Citizenship → Digital rights, licensing and ownership “I changed it by 20 per cent” is not a rule and never has been

Slide 3 of 7 · Part A: when does copyright expire? · Art · Year 11

8 minutes

Part A: the expiry table

Use the table in section 2 and the counting rule: the clock runs to the end of the calendar year, then the period is added. Give the exact expiry date, show the calculation, then say whether the work is in copyright today.

Work	Expiry date and working	In copyright today?
Painting by Gwen John, made 1920. The artist died in 1939.	Artistic work: 70 years after the author’s death. End of 1939 + 70 = 31 December 2009.	No, in the public domain since 1 January 2010.

Part A on your worksheet · 8 minutes Recordings and page layouts have their own terms, not the artist’s

Slide 4 of 7 · Part B: audit the exhibition · Art · Year 11

20 minutes

Part B: 6 scenarios, 3 columns each

Work in pairs but write your own sheet. For each scenario: allowed, allowed with conditions or not allowed; the licence, exception or rule from the facts sheet that decides it; and what the pupil must now do.

Scenario	Verdict	Rule, exception or licence	What the pupil must do
1. Nia scans a 1935 Gwen John portrait out of a library book into her annotated sketchbook as coursework.	Allowed	The painting left copyright on 31 December 2009, so it is public domain. The illustration for instruction exception covers annotated coursework anyway.	Write the source under the scan (book title, publisher, year). Classwork only: do not sell the scan or put the page on the school website.

Part B on your worksheet · 20 minutes, in pairs A verdict without a rule from the facts sheet is only an opinion

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: “20 minutes for the 6 scenarios. Scenario 1 is on the board as a model. Discuss with your partner, but each of you writes your own sheet. Every verdict must name a rule, exception or licence from the facts sheet, and every ‘not allowed’ needs a lawful way forward.” Do not show the worked example until Part B is finished.

Quick check: 2. Owain, CC BY-SA, sold for £25: allowed with conditions. CC BY-SA permits adaptations and commercial use; he must credit the photographer and release his painting under CC BY-SA 4.0 (ShareAlike travels onto his own work), and tell the buyer. 3. Megan, CC BY-NC in a £300 paid café mural: not allowed. NonCommercial bars use aimed at money, even when the money goes to the school; swap to CC BY, CC BY-SA or CC0, or ask the photographer in writing for a commercial licence. 4. Jac crops a CC BY-ND photograph: not allowed. Cropping is an adaptation and NoDerivatives forbids sharing adaptations; the credit does not cure it. Place it uncropped or ask permission.

5. Ffion, CC0 pattern recoloured on T-shirts, no credit: allowed. CC0 is a public domain dedication, so commercial use and adaptation are permitted and no credit is required; she should screenshot the CC0 page and credit anyway. 6. Photograph of a Kyffin Williams painting on the public school website: not allowed without permission. In copyright until 31 December 2076; photographing is copying and uploading is putting it on the internet. Illustration for instruction covers a lesson, not publishing to the world. Write to the rights holder through the gallery, or advertise with pupils’ own work.

Slide 5 of 7 · Parts C and D: attribution lines and the paragraph · Art · Year 11

10 minutes

Part C: write the 2 attribution lines, then Part D

C1: the label for Owain’s painting in scenario 2. Remember what ShareAlike forces him to do with his own version. C2: a CC BY 4.0 photograph of Conwy Castle, converted to black and white and otherwise unchanged, used on the exhibition programme.

TASL model from section 5: “Cwm Idwal at Dawn” by Rhiannon Elis, from Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: cropped to a square and converted to greyscale. This adaptation is also released CC BY-SA 4.0.

Part D, if you have time: a classmate says “If I change someone’s artwork enough, it becomes mine.” Write 4 or 5 sentences explaining exactly why that is wrong, using the word adaptation and naming 1 exception that does let them reuse work at school.

Parts C and D on your worksheet · 10 minutes Title, Author, Source, Licence, and what you changed

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: “10 minutes. Write both attribution lines so they could actually be printed; the pattern from the facts sheet is on the board. C1 must pass the ShareAlike promise on. If you finish, write the Part D paragraph.”

Quick check, Part C: both lines need title, author, source and licence, and must state the change. C1 ends with the ShareAlike promise, for example “Changes: used as the reference for this new acrylic painting. This painting is itself released under CC BY-SA 4.0.” C2 reads like “‘Conwy Castle from the quay’ by Rhys Morgan, from Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY 4.0. Changes: converted to black and white; otherwise unchanged.” Pupils may invent the title and photographer if the worksheet gives none.

Quick check, Part D: a secure paragraph says making an adaptation is itself one of the acts copyright controls, so permission is needed before tracing, cropping or recolouring; there is no percentage rule; and the illustration for instruction exception allows reuse in coursework and assessment but not selling or publishing online.

Slide 6 of 7 · Partner check · Art · Year 11

3 minutes

Swap sheets and challenge any verdict that does not name a rule

Swap with a partner. Tick their sheet against the success criteria. Challenge any Part B verdict that gives an opinion without a rule, exception or licence. Take your sheet back and correct 1 thing.

I can work out the exact date copyright expires on a painting, a recording and a published layout, using the end-of-calendar-year rule.
I can decide whether a use is allowed and name the licence or exception that decides it, not just my opinion.
I can explain what ShareAlike, NonCommercial and NoDerivatives each stop a re-user from doing.
I can write an attribution that names title, author, source and licence, and states what I changed.
I can explain that adapting a work is itself controlled by copyright, so changing it does not transfer ownership.

3 minutes · partner check Finished early? Make Megan’s mural lawful without changing the image

Slide 7 of 7 · Plenary review · Art · Year 11

2 minutes

Quick-check answers before handing in

Check your main answers before your worksheets are collected.

Question	Correct answer
When does copyright in Kyffin Williams’s paintings expire?	End of 2006 + 70 = 31 December 2076. Still in copyright.
Jac credited the photographer. Why is his cropped CC BY-ND photograph still not allowed?	Cropping is an adaptation, and NoDerivatives forbids sharing adaptations. The problem is the change, not the credit.
What does ShareAlike force Owain to do?	Release his own painting under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a compatible licence, and credit the photographer.

Check your name and class are on your worksheet Leave the facts sheets on the desk for the next class