1. * A Creator’s Rights * A Creator’s Responsibilities
Digital Citizenship
Unit 3
* A Creator’s Rights * A Creator’s Responsibilities
* Rework, Reuse, Remix
(Material referenced from Common Sense Education October 2015)

2. Unit 3 – A Creator’s Rights
Goal and objective is to understand that copyright is a legal system that has been put into place to protect the rights of the creator as well as discuss the different types of licenses to protect your work.

3. Key Vocabulary
creative work: any idea or artistic creation that is recorded in some form, whether it’s hard copy or digital
copyright: a law that protects your control over the creative work you make so that people must get your permission before they copy, share, or perform your work

4. Key Vocabulary
Creative Commons: a kind of copyright that makes it easier for people to copy, share, and build on your creative work, as long as they give you credit for it
license: a clear way to define the copyright of your creative work so people know how it can be used

5. Copyright “To-Do-List”
You can use things you find online as long as you:
check who created it
get permission to use it
give credit to the creator
buy it (if necessary)
use it responsibly

6. Additional Words to know
PIRACY: Stealing copyrighted work by downloading or copying it in order to keep, sell, or give it away without permission and without paying.
PLAGIARIZE: Copying, “lifting,” or making slight changes to some or all of someone else’s work and saying you created it.
PUBLIC DOMAIN: Creative work that’s not copyrighted and therefore free for you to use however you want.
FAIR USE: The ability to use a small amount of copyrighted work without permission, but only in certain ways and in specific situations (schoolwork and education, news reporting, criticizing or commenting on something, and comedy/parody).

7. Unit 3 – A Creator’s Responsibilities
Goal and objective is to consider ethical questions about real-life decisions young creators make in exercising their creative rights and responsibilities.

8. Key Vocabulary
piracy: stealing copyrighted work by downloading or copying it in order to keep, sell, or give it away without permission and without paying
plagiarism: copying, “lifting,” or making slight changes to some or all of someone else’s work and saying you wrote it

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

10. Case Study 1 – Emilio’s Amazing Squirrel Photo
When he was at the park, Emilio took an amazing photo of a squirrel hanging with one paw from a tree branch. He uploaded this photo to his Flickr photo-sharing website. He also entered it in the school’s photography contest, and it won first prize! Soon people at school visited his Flickr site to download his funny photo. His friends posted the photo on their profiles, blogs, and webpages. Some people at school printed out the photo and posted it in their lockers. Someone in art class used the photo in a collage. Someone else from another school made T-shirts with the photo and sold them.

11. Plantain Squirrel, Callosciurus notatus, found in Southeast Asia; photo by .Nick Baker

12. Case Study 2 – Paul the Pirate
Paul spends a lot of time online illegally downloading (pirating) music, movies, and games. He then uploads the files and shares them with friends and even on peer-to-peer sharing websites. “I’m spreading the wealth,” he says. One day his older sister finds out what he is doing and tells him, “It’s illegal, it’s stealing!” Paul says, “I don’t care. Why should I have to pay for something when I can get it for free? Besides, these artists and the record companies make tons of money.” His sister then asks, “If you made a song or a movie, would you want people to just get it for free, and without giving you credit?”

13. Case Study 3 – Marissa’s Music Video
Marissa loves to make videos with her friends and upload them to YouTube. She made a video in which she and her friends dressed up and lip-synched to the latest hit song. In the video, they sang the whole song. A few days later, Marissa saw that the music on the YouTube video had been muted. There was a message saying, “This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.” People could still see the video image but not hear sound. Marissa also saw that some mean comments about her video had been posted, such as “Where is the song? Stupid!!!” and “Smart move.”
Lipsync Video

14. Case Study 4 – Copy and Paste Cici
Cici has a big report due for social studies class about the history of the Olympics. But she put it off until the last minute. So she goes online and researches the topic. She copies and pastes information from several different websites into her paper. She then changes a few of the words to make it seem like she wrote it. She doesn’t give credit to the websites she used.

15. Unit 3– Rework, Reuse, Remix
Goal and objectives:
identify the key points required for a creative work to fall under fair use.
judge whether or not the two case studies can be called fair use.
understand the value of fair use by reworking and remixing copyrighted material in a collage or video.

16. Key Vocabulary
rework: to reform, reuse, or remix copyrighted work into something else
public domain: creative work that’s not copyrighted and therefore free for you to use however you want

17. Key Vocabulary
parody: a creative work that is a funny imitation of something and pokes fun at an original work
remix or mash-up: editing together clips of video, sound, images, and text by “remixing” or “mashing” different parts together to create something new

18. Key Vocabulary
fair use: the ability to use copy- righted work without permission, but only in certain ways and in specific situations (schoolwork and education, news reporting, criticizing or commenting on something, and comedy/parody)

19. Examples Common Use Free Books Scary – Mary Shine Brighter DJ Earworm
66 (Old) Movie Dance Scenes Mashup (Mark Ronson- Uptown Funk ft.Bruno Mars)
2015 NFL Bad Lip Reading