Copyright Unit Flashcards
A student downloads an sound clip from MP3.com to integrate into a curriculum project. Fair Use or Not?
Fair Use - because MP3.com pays for its archives, so the material there is legitimately acquired. Plus, it is being used for educational purposes.
Your teacher’s classroom owns one copy of MS Office and installs it on the school server where students from any room can access and use it. This way several students can use it at one time. Fair Use or Not?
Not Fair Use - because more than one person can access it at one time. It would be okay if only one was able to access at any one time.
During parent teacher conferences, the PTA offers to watch parents children by inviting them to watch a popular children’s movie, Ratatouille (2007), in the school auditorium. Educational Fair Use or Not?
Not Educational Fair Use - because this was not used for educational classroom purposes but for entertainment. In this case, Disney would sell you a one-time license for $25 that makes this legal. Call Disney at 818-560-1000, ask for “Rights”.
Your Multimedia teacher has you take photos around town of structures, textures, landscapes, landscaping, etc. for your digital imaging unit. You are to place your best photos on your website. Permissible to post online or not?
Permissible - You own your images so you can post them. Some sites, like Disneyland and architectural landmarks, may be considered copyright material. In this case, they may ask you to remove them from your site. People (not selectively chosen) in public places are as a rule OK in photograph and posting.
A teacher puts a CD-ROM in her book bag to take home. The weight of all the other books in the bag broke the CD. So the teacher decides to make a back-up copy of all her other CDs in fear that it might happen again. Permissible or not?
Permissible - The law allows archival copies, and in some cases, lost, stolen or damaged originals may be replaced with copies if the originals are unavailable or unreasonably priced.
A teacher has created a password protected website for students and parents to access where he/she posts her student’s projects which use copyright protected images in them. Permissible or not?
Permissible - If the site really is protected, then this is considered OK. The teacher should monitor its Web hits, though, and make sure the outside world isn’t sneaking in.
A teacher gets a song and video from a popular file-sharing sites, then creates a lesson plan and posts it on the school Web site to share with other teachers. Permissible or not?
Not Permissible - Legitimately acquired material can be used in classrooms. however, under the current law, no teacher can redistribute such material over the Net or any other medium.
Last year the principal made a video of the student’s Invent Iowa inventions and posters. It was to popular, everyone wanted a copy. Everything on the posters were used properly under the fair use guidelines for education. it’s permissible for the principal to sell copies of video. Permissible or not?
Not Permissible - Fair use allows educational use of copyright material, true, but it does so only if there is no anticipation of wider distribution.
The science teacher has only one copy of the interactive dissection CD. The teacher burns a copy of the CD enough for each student in class. Students can’t take the CD home and will only need it for two days. Permissible or not?
Not Permissible - The number of students who can use a software program simultaneously is restricted to the number of copies the school owns or teacher owns.
A student tries to take a clip from “LesMisérables” DVD from a rented copy. Her computer won’t do it. the movie happens to be on a CBS station that week, so the teacher tapes it and then digitizes it on the computer for her. Permissible or not?
Permissible - Manufacturers are instituting blocking technology, authorized under the law, so newer material like VHS rentals and DVDs block educators from their constitutional right to use material for teaching.
A personal finance class videotapes a guest speaker on “Dining Etiquette” who lives in the community. The class posts the video on the Web with the interviewee’s permission. Another school discovers the guest speaker’s video and a student uses it in his/her foods presentation on dining etiquette. Permissible or not?
Permissible - Just as you can use other people’s intellectual property for educational purposes without permission, so can your own be used.
What year did the first Copyright Act pass in Congress?
1976
How soon can an artist claim copyright?
When the medium is in a fixed form or a form you can use in court to prove it was yours first.
What Copyright Act amendment was created to update the copyright laws for the digital age?
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
What is the maximum length of years the copyright law covers ownership of copyrighted material?
95 years
