Copyright Primer

Fair Use Copyright Quiz

1) Basically copyright law was created in this country to protect individuals and companies from having their work ripped off.

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False The purpose of copyright was to support the

‘advancement of science and the useful arts’. Science at the time was used interchangeably with knowledge.

Copyright gives credit to an author, but was not meant for the material to never be used.

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 room to reward students with perfect attendance that week.

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False Entertainment and reward are explicitly

excluded under copyright and guidelines.

3a) A teacher buys a single-user program with department money and puts it on the LAN (network). It is frequently used by several teachers at the same time. This violates the software policy. Is the district liable?

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True The district is liable and must enforce its

written policy, not just post it. Someone needs to monitor the network and the standalone computers.

3b) 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. Is this fair use?

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False The Adobe license specifically forbids this. The

would like licenses for each working machine.

A single license usually requires a unique computer.

3c) Are these cases binding in court?

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Remains to be seen A software license only requires the user to

‘click to accept’. Users rarely read the entire agreement.

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. Is this fair use?

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False Using the entire program is not necessary.

Selecting the relevant clip would be more appropriate.

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. Only one class can use it at a time.

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True The principle should hold, but should check

the license.

6) Purchasing a computer program is the same as licensing it.

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False In some cases, such as a site license, one

physical or digital copy is provided, and each install is dictated by the licenses. As more installs are needed, additional licenses can be acquired. A license is a ‘right to use’.

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.

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True The video was legally obtained, used for

educational purposes, and only the relevant section was shown.

8a) Copyrighted material used without permission in multimedia projects may remain in the student’s portfolio forever.

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True As long as the project is not publicly

distributed, the student may archive their work.

The limited audience (student, faculty) allows this use of material.

8b) Asking permision is key to fair use protection in education.

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False The notion of fair use was specifically created

to avoid the need for permission by setting guidelines of use.

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.

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True This program is specifically created for

educational purposes and is meant to be rebroadcasted in the classroom.

10) Using a legal copy of the program Webwhacker, a district technology specialist downloads and caches educational web pages for school Internet trainings. This is fair use.

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True While permission would be preferable,

internet sites by design are copied locally in order to be viewed and for speed performance. Copying them to another location is an extension of the normal hosting process.

11) A science teacher asks the school librarian to record a great episode of Reading Rainbow on its original broadcast. He figures on using it for years. His students digitize parts for a class project. This is okay.

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True This program specifically allows educational

redistribution. Digitizing is allowed under fair use.

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.

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False Since internet postings are automatically copy

written, this material cannot be posted since it is not his work. An offline page or private project would be acceptable.

The audience is too broad and there is little educational purpose.

13) A student doing a multimedia report copies the Quicktime movie of Kennedy’s “We shall go to the moon” speech from a CD-ROM. Her teacher posts the project on the LAN. This is fair use.

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True The school network is not publically

accessible, so the audience is limited. Also the clip length is appropriate and for an educational purpose.

14) A school purchases a typing tutorial program and houses it in the library. It us checked out to students to take home. By enforced policy, the homes erase the program at the end of the checkout period. Permissible?

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True Checking out is fine since the install only

exists on one computer at a time, but the process must be enforced.

15) A student building a multimedia art project uses copyrighted images of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings downloaded from the web. He submits this to a festival and wins the $1000 prize for the school. Permissible?

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True The festival is not paying for the student work,

but rather rewarding it. Since the material was previously created for a legitimate purpose, this is acceptable.

16) The teacher of the winning multimedia project mentioned above shows it at an art conference for educators. The teacher’s attendance fee is waived due to this presentation. This is fair use.

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True Fair use extends to teacher training and

conferences.

17) A health teacher tapes a Seinfeld episode on personal hygiene. The local TV station denies permission when asked and states this is a violation of policy. Are they correct?

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False The television has no say on how the material

is presented nor do they own the license. Congress allows all broadcasts to be held for 10 days, and schools may retain them longer.

18a) A student brings in a cassette copy of the National Anthem which he copies from and audio CD his mother purchased as Target. Another student on her team digitized this for a project. This copy is fair use.

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False For fair use to apply, the source must be

legally obtained. The original student would be allowed to use the material, but not the second student.

18b) From iTunes, a gifted student downloads an MP3 music file of a hit rap song for and anti-violence video his team made. This is fair use.

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True While the MP3 format may have an associated

stigma, it is a common format and traditional fair use policies apply.

18c) Defending her point of view, a suspended student reuses the same unauthorized copyrighted material on the school web pages which she originally used in the school paper. Is this fair use.

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True Journalism is protected. While the original

source is not allowed, it can be reproduced to illustrate a point.

19) A high school sells a student video yearbook made by volunteers for $25 to raise money for equipment for the school. All the money goes to the school. The use popular music clips. The songs are fully listed in the credits.

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False This example provides no educational purpose

and is not included in a curriculum. Being used in a school setting is not the same as being used in an educational setting.

20) A school can only afford one copy of KidPix. It loads this onto the library computer and all student and all classes have access to it all day. The player is installed onto all lab computers to view work. Permissible?

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True The player is known as freeware and is

specifically created to view work created from the mastering program. The master program complies with its license by only being installed once.

Another example would be the Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer.

21) A teacher creates his own grading program. He transfers to another school and forgets to delete the program. He sues the school and wins. Is he likely to received a monetary reward.

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False While the school must discontinue use, there

was no monetary loss associated with the use, since the program was created for non-commercial uses, and there was no license agreement.

22) An elementary school transcribes the lyrics from the album CATS for the school musical. There is no admission charge. Is this fair use?

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False Copyright holders retain the right to sell their

work. Although the play is held in a school, it is not for an educational purpose. Free admission does not bypass the need to pay for the license.

23) A classroom on the Internet pays for only one Internet account to AskMeThings.com. The teacher lets every student use it. Permissible?

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True Internet accounts usually permit multiple

logins. If they do not wish this to occur, the website programming will disallow it, and there will not be an issue.

24) An enterprising media aid tapes 60 Minutes every week in case teacher need it. This is fair use.

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False Schools may not tape in anticipation of a

request.

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 lose.

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False Since the program was not on the network,

the school can not be held accountable since it cannot monitor these types of transactions.

(Bonus) Copyright protection is essential for superior artistic output.

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