Copyright

In this tutorial you will be asked questions to test your background knowledge of Copyright Law. Try to answer each question. Click here to Check Your Answer to see if you are correct. On the test therewill be questions testing your factual knowledge of Copyright Law as well as case studies that you will need to analyze to determine if Copyright Law has been violated.

• Determine whether or not specific examples of classroom copying are violations of US copyright law;
• Identify examples of classroom copying which fall with the Fair Use Doctrine
• Apply the copyright law and Fair Use Doctrine to information in a variety of formats (e.g. textbook, videotape, audiotape, computer software, etc.)

Questions

1. What is the purpose of Copyright Law?
2. What is protected by Copyright?
3. What is not protected by Copyright?
4. What rights does a copyright holder have?
5. What is the Public Domain?
6. What is included in the public domain?
7. What is the Fair Use Exclusion?
8. What items are covered under the Fair Use Exclusion?
9. What is the "Four-factor Test" for fair use?
10. How does Fair Use apply to computer software?
11. How does Fair Use apply to music?
12. How does Fair Use apply to graphic images?
13. How does Fair Use apply to multimedia?
14. How does Fair Use apply to the internet?
15. How does Fair Use apply to performances?
16. How does Fair Use apply to television and video?
17. When is it okay to make copies?
18. What three criteria must you meet in making multiple copies for the classroom?
19. What is the difference between plagiarism and copyright violation?

Case study 1

Mr. Hughes uses computers at both school and home. Last year, he purchased a desktop publishing program for his home computer. Other teachers are impressed with the class newsletters and instructional materials he has produced using this program. They want to learn to use it as well. Mr. Hughes offers to help them learn, but first loans the program disks to three other teachers so that they can load the program onto their own home computers. He then meets with the teachers to show them how to use the desktop publishing program. Is he in violation of copyright and why?

Case study 2

Throughout the year, Mr. Ricci watches for holiday specials on network television. He videotapes the programs and then brings them into his school, where he keeps a collection of these tapes. As the holidays approach, he selects videotapes from this collection to show when his class has holiday parties. Is he in violation of copyright and why?