Teach your art students about visual plagiarism with vocabulary and examples.

1. What is Visual Plagiarism?
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2. Visual Plagiarism
• Visual Plagiarism is copying and assuming the
ideas of another artist or entity that owns the
rights to their own visual material. It is
considered unethical.
• This can include artwork like drawing,
painting, sculpture, and photography, as well
as advertisements, logos, brand names, and
other original visual imagery.

3. Examples of Visual Plagiarism

4. Examples of Visual Plagiarism

5. Examples of Visual Plagiarism

6. Examples of Visual Plagiarism
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7. What is unethical in the
classroom?
• Copying blatantly from a photo or image
you find on the internet
• Using a copyright character, such as Hello
Kitty, Winnie the Pooh, Disney
characters, etc.
• Using a trademark logo or symbol such as
the Nike, Volcom, D.C. Shoes, sports
team logos, etc.

8. What is okay?
• Everything an artist produces is in some way
affected by what he or she has seen.
• Borrowing aspects of an image you have seen
online and making it your own is OK
• Using ideas you see to inspire your own work
somehow (similar color schemes, line work,
etc.) is OK
• Ask if you are unsure!

9. Source: http://www.epuk.org/The-
Curve/456/visual-plagiarism