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Lesson

A Creator's Rights and Responsibilities

What rights and responsibilities do you have as a creator?

Grade

4

Time

45 mins.

Objectives

  • Define "copyright" and explain how it applies to creative work.
  • Describe their rights and responsibilities as creators.
  • Apply copyright principles to real-life scenarios.

Vocabulary

attribute . copyright . intellectual property . license . plagiarism
attribute giving credit to the person who created something, such such as listing the author's name and date, or a citation
copyright legal protection that creators have over the things they create
intellectual property the ownership of something you create, giving you a right to how others use it
license a clear way to define the type of copyright creative work has so others know how they can use it
plagiarism taking someone else's work or ideas and pretending they are your own
Standards
This lesson meets standards for Common Core ELA, ISTE, CASEL and AASL.
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Lesson Plan

45 mins.