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Copyright Quiz
(©2000 Halldavidson.net, Hall Davidson - Reproduced
with permission for educational purposes)
1.
Basically, copyright law was created in this country to protect individuals
and companies from having their work ripped off.
2.
The owner of the local Blockbuster Video store supports the school by
donating one videotape rental-free to the school every Friday. The video
is shown in the multi-purpose room to reward students with perfect attendance
that week. It does improve attendance. This falls under fair use.
3.
(a) A teacher buys a single-user program with department money and puts
it on the Local Area Network (LAN) . It is frequently used by several
teachers at the same time. This is done in violation of a written district
policy against using single-user programs on the LAN. After two years,
the software company takes action against the individual teacher. The
district is also liable.
3.
(b) The Adobe user license allows ten versions of PageMaker to be spread
across twenty-five machines as long as no more than ten users ever use
the program simultaneously.
3.
(c) This and similar licenses, once agreed to, are binding in court.
4.
On her home VCR, a history teacher taped the original ABC news report
of Nixon leaving the White House after resigning. She uses the entire
news program every year in her classroom. This is fair use.
5.
St. Francis school purchases a single copy of a math program and installs
it on the server so it can be accessed by classrooms throughout the
school and also on the stand-alone computers in the portables. The policy
is that only one class can use it at a time and the policy is religiously
enforced. Permissible?
6.
Purchasing a computer program is the same as licensing it.
7.
A teacher rents Gone With the Wind to show the burning of Atlanta scene
to her class while studying the Civil War. This is fair use.
8.
(a) Copyrighted material used without permission in multimedia projects
may remain in the student's portfolio forever.
8.
(b) Asking for permission is key to fair use protection in education.
9.
An elementary teacher in California loves the cartoon demonstration
of fractions in the TV program Mathworks. He copies the entire program
for every teacher in the school. This is fair use.
10.
Using a legal copy of the program Webwhacker, a district technology
specialist downloads and caches educational and noneducational web pages
for school Internet trainings. This is fair use.
11.
A science teacher asks the school librarian to record a great episode
of Reading Rainbow on its original broadcast on 3/02. He figures on
using it for years. His students digitize parts for a HyperStudio class
project. This is okay.
12.
A student finds a photo online dramatizing a pre-Columbian Viking landing
in America. Since the school symbol is the Viking, he posts this photo
on the school web page. It links back to the original website. This
is fair use.
13.
A student doing a multimedia report copies the Quicktime movie of Kennedy's
"We shall go to the moon" speech from the CD-ROM Groliers
Encyclopedia. Her teacher posts the project on the school LAN. This
is fair use.
14.
A school purchases a typing tutorial program and houses it in the library.
It is checked out to students to take home. By enforced policy, the
homes erase the program at the end of the two week checkout period.
Permissible?
15.
A student building a multimedia art project uses copyrighted images
of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings downloaded from the web. He submits
this project to the California Student Multimedia Festival (and others)
honoring classroom work and wins the $1,000 prize for the school. This
is permissible under fair use.
16.
The teacher of the winning multimedia project mentioned above shows
it at an art conference for educators. It cost $50 to attend the conference
and the teacher is awarded free attendance because he is a presenter.
This is fair use.
17.
A health teacher tapes a Seinfeld episode on personal hygiene for use
the following week in class. The local television station denies permission
when asked and states this is a violation of copyright law. They are
correct.
18.
(a) A student brings in a cassette copy of the National Anthem which
he copied from an audio CD his mother purchased at Target. Another student
on her team digitizes this into a HyperStudio stack and video. This
is fair use.
18.
(b) From MP3.com, a gifted student downloads an MP3 music file of a
hit rap song for an anti-violence video his team made. This is fair
use.
18.
(c) Defending her point of view, a suspended student reuses the same
unauthorized copyrighted material on the school web page which she originally
used in the school paper. The original essay resulted in her suspension.
The use of the material on the web is fair use.
19.
A high school sells a student video yearbook made by volunteers for
$25 to raise money for equipment for the school. They use popular music
clips. The money all goes to the school. The songs are fully listed
in the credits. Fair use?
20.
A school can only afford one copy of KidPix. It loads this onto the
library computer and all students and all classes have access to it
all day. The teachers copy and install KidPix Player on their classroom
computers to evaluate the student work. This is permissible.
21.
A teacher creates his own grading program. He transfers to another school
and forgets to delete the program from the network. Everyone at his
old school copies and use the program. He sues the school and wins.
He is likely to receives a significant monetary reward.
22.
An elementary school transcribes the lyrics from the album CATS for
the school mini-musical. There is no admission charge. Fair use applies.
23.
A classroom on the Internet pays for only one Internet account to AskMeThings,
a dot com. The teacher lets every student use it. This is permissible.
24.
An enterprising media aid tapes 60 Minutes every week in case teachers
need it. This is fair use.
25.
A professor at a University of California campus copies an expensive
software program for every student in class to use. If taken to court
by the copyright holder , the university will certainly lose.
last updated :
February 8, 2005
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