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Copyright and Ethics

Art Education

Useful for: OSSC Art Education Instructor

Overview

Copyright protects creators’ rights; ethical art practice respects ownership, credits sources and avoids plagiarism.

Key points

  • India’s Copyright Act was passed in 1957.
  • For artistic works, copyright generally lasts for the author’s life plus 60 years.
  • Fair dealing allows limited use for education, criticism and review.
  • Creative Commons licences let creators share with conditions.
  • Moral rights protect attribution and integrity of a work.
  • Copying another’s artwork and presenting it as one’s own is plagiarism.

Explanation

  • Traditional crafts are also protected through GI tags.
  • Credit images and sources in projects.
  • Using AI or online images raises new ethical questions.
  • Teach students to ask permission.
  • Public-domain works can be used freely.

Step by step

  1. Identify the art concept, medium or movement asked.
  2. Recall the definition, artist, period or technique.
  3. Choose the option that matches the visual or pedagogical principle.

Examples

  • Using a painting in a class critique with credit → fair dealing.
  • Selling copies of another artist’s design → infringement.
  • A CC BY image used with attribution → licensed use.

Traps and advanced points

  • Trap: Assuming online images are free.
  • Trap: Wrong duration.
  • Trap: Ignoring moral rights.

Quick revision

  • Copyright Act 1957.
  • Life + 60 years.
  • Fair dealing; Creative Commons.

Practice MCQs

  1. In India, copyright is governed by the

    1. Patents Act, 1970
    2. Copyright Act, 1957
    3. IT Act, 2000
    4. Trade Marks Act, 1999

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    Answer: (b) Copyright Act, 1957. It protects artistic, literary and musical works.

  2. In India, copyright in an artistic work generally lasts for

    1. the artist's lifetime plus 60 years
    2. 10 years
    3. 25 years
    4. the artist's lifetime only

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    Answer: (a) the artist's lifetime plus 60 years. After that, the work enters the public domain.

  3. Using someone else's artwork while presenting it as your own is

    1. citation
    2. attribution
    3. licensing
    4. plagiarism

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    Answer: (d) plagiarism. Credit must always be given.

  4. Plagiarism means —

    1. citing sources correctly
    2. presenting others’ work as one’s own
    3. collecting new data
    4. publishing a paper

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    Answer: (b) presenting others’ work as one’s own. It is a serious breach of research ethics.

  5. Informed consent means that participants —

    1. are paid
    2. agree after knowing the purpose and procedure
    3. are chosen randomly
    4. remain unaware

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    Answer: (b) agree after knowing the purpose and procedure. Participants join voluntarily with full information.

  6. Which is the most serious violation of research ethics?

    1. a small sample
    2. fabricating data
    3. using secondary data
    4. a long questionnaire

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    Answer: (b) fabricating data. Fabrication and falsification destroy research integrity.

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