Presentation: Reading Image Licences for a School Website

Slide 1 of 7 · Settling starter · IT · Year 8

3 minutes

Reading image licences: 6 photos, 3 jobs, and a teacher who is wrong

You have a worksheet and a stimulus sheet, Image licence pack: Ysgol Bryn Alaw website team. Mr Pugh has found 6 photos and thinks they are all free to use. You are a Digital Leader. Today you read the licence under each photo, decide which photo can be used for which job, and explain it so clearly he cannot argue.

While the register is called: write your name, class and date on your worksheet, then read section 1 of the stimulus sheet, The email, and section 3, Licence key.

Starter question: Mr Pugh says “if we give credit we can use anything”. Which line in section 4 of the stimulus sheet says he is wrong?

DCF: Citizenship → Digital rights, licensing and ownership No computers needed · highlighters for Step 1

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Hand out: one worksheet per pupil, one stimulus sheet between 2, and highlighters. No computers are needed. The school, Mr Pugh, the photographers, the photo website LluniauAgored and Bae Photos Ltd are all invented; the licences themselves are real Creative Commons licences used on millions of images online.

Say aloud: “Name, class and date at the top. While I take the register, read Mr Pugh’s email in section 1 and the licence key in section 3. A licence is the set of rules the photographer attaches to their photo saying what you may do with it. Then find the line in section 4 that proves his last sentence wrong.”

Starter answer: section 4 says “Giving credit is not the same as having permission.” Also acceptable: “Being easy to find online does not make a photo free to use”, and that copyright protects a photo automatically as soon as it is taken.

Slide 2 of 7 · Today’s brief and key words · IT · Year 8

2 minutes

Your brief: two questions for every job, then prove it with the licence words

You will explain 6 licence terms in your own words (Step 1), fill a grid of 6 photos against 3 jobs (Step 2), answer close-reading questions quoting the exact licence words (Step 3), write 2 credit lines (Step 4) and reply to Mr Pugh in 80 to 120 words (Step 5). For every job ask: does it change the photo? and does it make money?

Licence

The rules a creator attaches to their work. Creative Commons licences are built from conditions: BY, NC, ND, SA. CC0 means the creator gave up their rights.

Derivative

A changed version of the work, for example cropped into a strip with words written on it. ND forbids sharing one; SA makes you share it under the same licence.

Commercial

A use mainly meant to make money, such as printing the photo on hoodies sold for £25. NC forbids it, even for a good cause.

DCF: Citizenship → Digital rights, licensing and ownership LNF: Literacy → Reading → Understanding, response and analysis

Slide 3 of 7 · Step 1: key words · IT · Year 8

6 minutes

Step 1 on your worksheet: highlight each term in the licence key, then explain it in your own words

Highlight BY, NC, ND, SA, CC0 and the all rights reserved notice on the stimulus sheet. Then explain each term in the table in your own words. Do not copy the key word for word. Row 1 is on the board; copy it, then do the other 5.

Term	What it means, in your own words
Attribution (BY)	You must name the person who made it, link to the licence and say what you changed.

Step 1 on your worksheet · 6 minutes Own words, with an example where it helps

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: “Highlight the 6 terms on the stimulus sheet. Row 1, Attribution, is on the board: copy it. Then explain Commercial, Derivative, ShareAlike, Public domain and All rights reserved in your own words. If you have copied the key word for word, you have not done the task.”

Quick check: Commercial: using it mainly to make money, such as on something you sell or in an advert. Derivative: a new version made by changing the original, for example cropping it and adding words. ShareAlike (SA): if you make a changed version, you have to let other people use your version on the same terms. Public domain (CC0): nobody owns the rights any more, so anyone can use it for anything without asking. All rights reserved: the owner keeps every right; you must ask them and get permission first.

Slide 4 of 7 · Step 2: which photo for which job? · IT · Year 8

13 minutes

Step 2 on your worksheet: fill the grid, one photo at a time

For each photo and each job write Yes or No. If it is Yes with a condition, write the condition too. Job A, the banner, changes the photo (cropped, words added). Job B, hoodies sold for £25, makes money. Job C, the news story, is unchanged and not for sale. Row 1 is on the board; copy it.

Photo and licence	Job A: banner (cropped, words added)	Job B: hoodies sold for £25	Job C: news story (unchanged)
1 Pen y Fan, CC BY	Yes: credit, and say it was cropped and words added	Yes: credit	Yes: credit

Step 2 on your worksheet · 13 minutes Two questions each time: does it change the photo, does it make money

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: “Row 1 is on the board: photo 1 is CC BY, so every job is Yes as long as we give credit. Copy it. Then go photo by photo, reading the licence under it and asking the 2 questions. Write the condition next to every Yes, not just the Yes.”

Quick check: Photo 2, CC BY-NC: A Yes (the school website is not commercial; credit and say what changed), B No (selling hoodies is commercial), C Yes with credit. Photo 3, CC BY-ND: A No (cropping and adding words makes a changed version), B Yes if printed exactly as it is, with credit, C Yes with credit. Photo 4, CC0: Yes, Yes, Yes, no conditions. Photo 5, CC BY-SA: A Yes with credit, say what changed, and share the banner under CC BY-SA; B Yes with credit; C Yes with credit. Photo 6, all rights reserved: No, No, No, not without written permission.

Walk the room: the 4 checks you can make without any subject knowledge: photo 6 can be used for nothing; photo 4 can be used for everything; photo 2 cannot go on the hoodies; photo 3 cannot be used for the banner.

Slide 5 of 7 · Steps 3, 4 and 5: quote, credit, reply · IT · Year 8

21 minutes

Step 3, Step 4 & Step 5 on your worksheet: close reading, credit lines, your reply to Mr Pugh

Step 3 (8 min): answer (a) to (d) in full sentences. Where it says quote, copy the exact words in quotation marks. Step 4 (6 min): write a full TASL credit line for photo 1 and for photo 5 used as the banner, saying what was changed. Step 5 (7 min): reply to Mr Pugh in 80 to 120 words: 1 photo per job with a reason from the licence, and what to do if he really wants photo 6.

Worked model, Step 4 (a): “Pen y Fan at sunrise” by Tomos Rees, from LluniauAgored, CC BY 4.0. Cropped and text added by Ysgol Bryn Alaw.

TASL = Title, Author, Source, Licence, then what you changed.

Steps 3, 4 and 5 on your worksheet · 21 minutes Quote the exact words · credit is not permission

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: “Step 3: full sentences, and when it says quote, copy the exact words from the licence key or the email in quotation marks. Step 4: the credit line for photo 1 is on the board; write it, then do photo 5 and say what extra condition SA adds. Step 5: a short polite reply, 80 to 120 words, 1 photo per job with the licence reason, and finish with what he must do about photo 6.”

Quick check, Step 3: (a) NC says you may “not use the work for commercial purposes: anything mainly meant to make money”; the hoodies are sold for £25 to raise money, so making money is the main point even for a good cause. (b) ND says if you “change, remix or build on the work, you may not share the changed version”; Job A crops the photo into a strip and writes words across it, and a public website is sharing. (c) “are on the internet and free to use” is wrong because being easy to find online does not make a photo free and copyright is automatic; “if we give credit we can use anything” is wrong because giving credit is not the same as having permission, so photo 6 would still break copyright. (d) Mari chose NC so she does not want people making money from her photo; she did not choose ND, so she does not mind people cropping or changing it, as long as they credit her and are not making money.

Quick check, Steps 4 and 5: (b) “Llyn Padarn in autumn” by Siân Morgan, from LluniauAgored, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and text added by Ysgol Bryn Alaw. This banner is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. The extra condition is that the banner must go out under the same licence so others may reuse it on the same terms. The model reply recommends photo 1 for the banner (CC BY allows cropping and words with credit), photo 4 for the hoodies (CC0, anyone may use it even to make money) and photo 3 for the news story (ND only allows it unchanged, so this is the job it suits), says photo 2 cannot go on hoodies, and tells Mr Pugh to email Bae Photos Ltd for written permission if he wants photo 6. Any of photos 1 to 5 is acceptable for the news story with a reason.

Slide 6 of 7 · Self and partner check · IT · Year 8

3 minutes

Swap with your partner and check against the success criteria

Tick each success criterion your partner’s work meets. Then correct 1 thing: a Yes in the grid with no condition beside it, or a Step 3 answer that explains without quoting.

I can decide whether a use is allowed by checking whether it changes the work or makes money.
I can quote the exact words in a licence that support my decision.
I can infer what a creator wanted from the licence they chose.
I can write a correct credit line and explain my decisions clearly to an adult.

3 minutes · partner check Finished early? Photo 4 needs no credit. Give 2 reasons the school should credit Dewi Lloyd anyway

Slide 7 of 7 · Plenary review · IT · Year 8

2 minutes

Round the room, then quick-check answers before handing in

Everyone names 1 photo and 1 job it cannot be used for, with the reason, nobody repeats one. Then check these answers.

Question	Correct answer
Which photo can be used for nothing, and which for everything?	Photo 6 (all rights reserved) for nothing without written permission. Photo 4 (CC0) for everything.
Why can photo 2 not go on the hoodies?	Its NC condition forbids commercial use, and hoodies sold for £25 are commercial, even for a good cause.
Is giving credit the same as having permission?	No. Copyright is automatic the moment a photo is taken; without a licence you need the owner’s permission.

Check your name and class are on your worksheet Worksheets in · highlighted stimulus sheets stay with the pair