Copyright & Artistic Integrity
- All artwork must be original.
- If a students use someone else’s work or published image as a basis for their own artwork, there must be significant alteration to the artwork in order to be considered original.
- During individual and group discussions and critiques, students will develop and understanding of what constitutes plagiarism and how to maintain artistic integrity.
- Copyright: the exclusive right granted by law to publish, sell, or distribute a literary or artistic work (protected by copyright).
- Plagiarism: to steal and use (the ideas or writings of someone else as one’s own.
- Integrity: ridged adherence to a code of values.
- Alteration (alter): to change; make or become different; modify.
Creating images: the best solution to prevent infringement of copyrights is:
- Work from your imagination
- Use a camera to create your own images
Assignments & grading:
- If the students uses someone else’s image (actual artwork, photo, or internet image) for inspiration, the student must turn in a photograph of the original artwork for comparison.
- Any assignment turned in for grading that violates copyrights will receive the grade of “0”.
- the student may create a new “project to replace the grade of “0”.
I understand copyrights and will do my best not to infringe on someone else’s artistic creation:
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