Cover lesson · Art · Year 11 · Advanced
DCF: Citizenship → Digital rights, licensing and ownership
Name: Class: Date:
Print: this sheet, one per pupil, plus the stimulus sheet "Copyright and licence facts", one per pupil or one per pair. No computers needed. Every fact a pupil needs is on the stimulus sheet.
Run: 5 min — pupils read sections 1 and 2 of the facts sheet · 10 min — expiry table (arithmetic, answers are checkable) · 20 min — scenario audit, working in pairs but each writing their own sheet · 10 min — write the two attribution lines · 5 min — swap sheets and tick against the success criteria. The scenarios have right answers; if a pair argues, tell them to name the section of the facts sheet that supports them.
Collect: this sheet. It goes to the class teacher. Keep the facts sheets for the next class.
You are acting as the copyright checker for a Year 11 exhibition. First you work out when copyright expires on five works. Then you audit six real situations from the exhibition and decide, for each one, whether the use is allowed, and under which rule or licence. Finally you write two attribution lines that could actually be printed next to the work.
Use the table in section 2 and the counting rule. Give the exact expiry date, then say whether the work is in copyright today.
| Work | Expiry date and how you worked it out | In copyright today? |
|---|---|---|
| Painting by Gwen John, made 1920. The artist died in 1939. | ||
| Painting by Sir Kyffin Williams, made 1975. The artist died in 2006. | ||
| Landscape by Thomas Jones of Pencerrig, made 1782. The artist died in 1803. | ||
| Sound recording of a male voice choir, first published in 2019. | ||
| The page layout of an exhibition catalogue, first published in 2015. |
Six pupils have submitted work. For each one: is the use allowed, allowed with conditions or not allowed? Name the licence, exception or rule from the facts sheet, and say 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 and sticks it in her sketchbook, annotated, as part of her coursework. | |||
| 2. Owain downloads a photograph of Pen y Fan from Wikimedia Commons marked CC BY-SA 4.0, paints his own version from it, and sells the painting for £25 at the school enterprise fair. | |||
| 3. Megan uses a CC BY-NC photograph inside a mural that a town-centre café is paying the school £300 to install. | |||
| 4. Jac crops a CC BY-ND photograph from a square to a tall strip so it fits his poster layout, and credits the photographer. | |||
| 5. Ffion takes a repeating pattern released under CC0, recolours it and prints it on T-shirts to sell, with no credit anywhere. | |||
| 6. The class wants to photograph a Kyffin Williams painting hanging in a gallery and put the photograph on the school's public website to advertise the exhibition. |
Use the TASL pattern from section 5: Title, Author, Source, Licence, plus what was changed.
C1. For Owain's painting in scenario 2. Remember what ShareAlike forces him to do with his own version.
C2. For a CC BY 4.0 photograph of Conwy Castle that you have converted to black and white and used, unchanged otherwise, on the exhibition programme.
A classmate says: "If I change someone's artwork enough, it becomes mine." Write four or five sentences explaining exactly why that is wrong, using the word adaptation and naming one exception that does let them reuse work at school.