Copyright Primer
Fair Use Copyright Quiz
by Hall Davidson
1. Basically, copyright law was created in this country to protect individuals and companies from having their work ripped off.
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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".
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
3. 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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
4. 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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
5. 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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
6. 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. This use is permissible.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
8. Asking for permission is key to fair use protection in education.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
10. Using a legal copy of the program Webwhacker, a district technology specialist downloads and caches educational and non-educational web pages for school Internet trainings. This is fair use.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
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?
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
18. 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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
19. 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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
20. 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. This is fair use.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
21. 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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
22. 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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
23. A teacher with Internet connection in her classroom pays for only one Internet account to AskMeThings, a dot com. The teacher lets every student use it. This is permissible.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
24. An enterprising media aid tapes 60 Minutes every week in case teachers need it. This is fair use.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False
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.
TrueÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ False

This interactive quiz was adapted from: 
The Copyright Primer: Fair Use Copyright Quiz 
http://www.mediafestival.org/quiz1.pdf 
Fair Use Copyright Quiz Ð Answers 
http://www.mediafestival.org/answ1.pdf 
© 2002 Hall Davidson. Used with permission. 




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