Copyright education resources
These resources by the Authors’ Licencing and Collecting Society are designed to educate children and young people on the importance of copyright; what it means, how it protects authors’ written work, and why it matters for writers and creatives.
UNDERSTANDING AND COMMUNICATING ABOUT COPYRIGHT
A Guide for Young People
This booklet is designed to teach you more about:
- writing as a skilled profession
- ownership of written work
- what copyright is and what it does
- why it’s important to writers/creators
- why it should be important to you as a creator yourself
- what you can and can’t use and how
- how this applies to digital as well as written media, including
streaming services and accessing books online - the difference between copyright and plagiarism.
UNDERSTANDING AND COMMUNICATING ABOUT COPYRIGHT
A Guide for Children
This booklet is designed to teach you more about:
- what it means to have a job as a writer
- what copyright is and how it protects written work
- why copyright is important to writers and creators
- why you should be aware of copyright for yourselves
as writers and creators - who owns written work
- what copyright does
- how to keep to copyright rules — what can and can’t be
used in schools and classrooms.
