Activities Answer Sheet
Secondary Level
The following answers relate to the separate
activity PDFs produced by ALCS
Activities Answer Sheet
ALCS has published a series of activity information sheets about copyright that go alongside
these information sheets. The information sheets are divided up into primary and secondary school
level information as are the activities. The answers to the secondary level activities can be found below
Activity 1: Copyright Crossword
1. Royalty
2. ALCS
3. Author
4. Illegal
5. Licence
6. Publish
7. Reproduce
8. Book
9. Writing
Activity 2: Who Does What?
ALCS – Collects money for authors for books, plays, magazine articles, and other writing which has been reproduced under licence.
CLA – Issues licences to schools and other organisations that want to reproduce parts of books.
PLR – Collects money for books that have been borrowed from libraries and pays it to authors.
NLA – Licences schools and other organisations that want to reproduce items from newspapers.
PRS – Collects licence fees from music users and distributes it to music creators whose work is protected by copyright.
DACS – Collects money on behalf of designers, artists and photographers whose copyrighted work
has been reproduced.
Activity 3: You Ask the Questions
These are suggested questions only.
Q1. Who collects money for writers?
Q2. Is it ok to photocopy chapters from books at school?
Q3. What’s the current act that governs copyright?
Q4. Why should we pay to copy a writer’s work?
Q5. Who issues licences to schools and universities to allow them to photocopy parts of books?
Q6. How do I know if my school has a licence?
Q7. I’ve bought a book for myself, the content therefore belongs to me, doesn’t it?
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Activity 4: Design an Awareness Raising Poster
N/A
Activity 5: Copyright Carnegie Quiz
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C – book for under 16s published the previous year.
B – Siobahn Dowd
A – ALCS
D – librarians
D – 1988
C – Anne Fine, Peter Dickinson, Jan Mark, Robert Westall, and Margaret Mahy.
A – the prize began 70 years ago in 1937 and none of the authors has yet been dead for more than 70 years.
D – Junk by Melvin Burgess.
A – a 19th century industrialist who left an enormous fortune ‘for the improvement of mankind’.
C – the school has paid for an appropriate level of licence from the CLA.
A – without it writers don’t get paid for their work so they might stop writing.
B – was withheld because no book was considered suitable.
B – Chartered Institute of Librarians and Information Professionals (CILIP).
C – June
D - the same book also won the Kate Greenaway award for its illustrations.
Activity 6: Copyright Elimination Puzzle
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bog / child
almond / mark
right / photo
per / mission
pigeon / post
theft / stealing
(a) monster calls
river / boy
citizen / ship
handles / wolf
illegal / unlawful
media / rights
Answer: licence
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