Förhållningssätt till plagiat inom bildämnet

The purpose of this study is to gain insight on how art teacher’s reason about what is “plagiarism” in the subject of art. This study focus on how different art teacher´s reason on the boundaries of plagiarism. What are the rules of duplicating an image before it is looked upon as plagiarism? The five interviewed teachers refer in its reasoning to the main curriculum and the rules of copyright; they also support the negative view of the plagiarism in the world of art. The theory of originality is a theory that deals with the vision of the originality in contemporary time. It is a theory that opposes the romanticism view on the original and question the traditional approach to the artist's ability to create out of nothing. This theory combined with the main curriculum and the rules of copyright are used in this study to analyze teachers' approach and way of thinking about the boundaries of plagiarism in art class in upper secondary level. The results show that the teachers consider this topic to be complicated, and think differently about the restrictions. Keywords: ar