UK Lesson Plan

Copyright and Fair Dealing (UK)

What rights to fair dealing do you have as a creator?

Age

12–13

Time

50 mins.

Objectives

  • Define the terms copyright, public domain and fair dealing.
  • Identify the purpose of the four exceptions of fair dealing.
  • Apply fair dealing to real-world examples, making a case for or against.

Vocabulary

copyright . fair dealing . licence . public domain . sampling
copyright legal protection that creators have over the things they create
fair dealing the circumstances in which copyrighted works can be used without permission from the copyright owner
licence a clear way to define the type of copyright a creative work has, so that others know how they can use it
public domain creative work that's not copyrighted and free to use without permission
sampling reworking a portion of a song or sound recording into a new composition
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Lesson Plan

50 mins.