Reusing Someone Else's Work: Licences and Giving Credit · seed 1 · A4, ink-friendly. The answer key prints on its own page for grown-ups.

Borrow It Fairly

Computing · Digital Literacy · ages 11-13
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. What must a credit usually name?

    • Your shoe size
    • The author, title and where found
    • Your favourite colour

  2. What does it mean that a picture belongs to its maker?

    • You must read its licence before reuse
    • You may do anything with it
    • Only teachers may view it

  3. Putting an idea in your own words means you need not name its thinker.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. When should you write down a source you used?

    • Years later from memory
    • Right away, while you still have it
    • Never, sources do not matter

  5. A licence forbids changes but allows sharing with credit. You want it cropped into a poster. What now?

    • Crop it anyway
    • Credit a different maker
    • Pick another picture whose licence fits

  6. Exact copied words need quotation marks plus the name of who wrote them.

    Circle one:   True   False

  7. A friend says crediting ruins a slide. What is your reply?

    • Slides need no makers ever
    • Credit lines let readers reach the original
    • Only songs need credit

  8. Your class fair sells prints to raise funds. A picture forbids commercial use. What is true?

    • Selling its prints breaks the licence
    • School fairs override licences
    • Credit alone fixes selling
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Answer key

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Borrow It Fairly W1-mt_SeLxugBmM7-s1

  1. The author, title and where found · Those three let any reader track down the original.
  2. You must read its licence before reuse · The maker sets the rules, and the licence states them.
  3. False · The idea still belongs to its thinker, so name them anyway.
  4. Right away, while you still have it · Tracking as you go beats hunting for sources later.
  5. Pick another picture whose licence fits · Match your plan to the licence, or find a picture that fits.
  6. True · Marks show the words are borrowed, and the name shows from whom.
  7. Credit lines let readers reach the original · A short line under the picture keeps reuse honest and traceable.
  8. Selling its prints breaks the licence · A sale is commercial, so a ban on selling rules that picture out.
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