Instructions:
Answer True or False.

[Source: "Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use" at
www.techlearning.com]

1)
A teacher buys a single-user software 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.
      True              False

2)
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.
      True              False

3)
Copyrighted material used in multimedia projects may remain in the 
student's portfolio forever.
      True              False

4)
A science teacher asks the school librarian to record a great 
episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy on its original broadcast date. 
He figures on using it for years. This is permissible.
      True              False

5)
A school purchases one copy of a typing tutorial program, which is 
housed in the library. It is checked out to individual students to 
take home for two-week periods. This is permissible as long as the 
homes erase the program at the end of the two weeks.
      True              False

6)
A student brings in a cassette copy of the national anthem that he 
copied from a CD lent to him by a friend. Another student digitizes 
this into a PowerPoint presentation. This is fair use.
      True              False

7)
A school can only afford one copy of Kid Pix. The librarian loads 
this onto a library computer and all students and all classes  have 
access to it all day. The teachers copy and install Kid Pix Player 
on their classroom computers to evaluate the students' work. This 
is permissible.
      True              False

8)
An elementary school transcribes the lyrics from the album "Cats" 
and puts it on as the school mini musical. A teacher plays the 
music by ear on the piano and the students perform every song. 
There is no admission charged. This is legal.
      True              False

9)
A professor at a prominent University of California campus copies 
an expensive software program for every student in his class. This 
state university is taken to court by the copyright holder. The 
university loses.
      True              False

10)
The owner of the local video store supports the school by donating 
one video rental free to the school every Friday. The video is 
shown in the multipurpose room to reward students with perfect 
attendance that week. This is fair use.
      True              False

11)
A history teacher taped the original ABC news report showing 
Richard Nixon leaving the White House after he resigned. She made 
it at home on her personal VCR and used her own tape. She uses the 
entire news program every year in her classroom. This is fair use.
      True              False

12)
A student doing a multimedia report discovers how to copy a 
QuickTime movie of Kennedy's "We Shall Go to the Moon" speech from 
a CD-ROM encyclopedia. He presents the report to his class, then 
posts it on the school server. This is fair use.
      True              False

13)
A student finds a photo online dramatizing a pre-Columbian Viking 
landing in America. Since the school symbol is the Viking, he uses 
this photo as a graphic element on the school's web page---giving 
credit to the site from which it was copied. This is fair use.
      True              False

14)
A student building a multimedia art project uses copyrighted images 
of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings downloaded from the Web. He submits 
this project to a multimedia competititon honoring classroom work 
and wins a prize for the school. This is covered under fair use.
      True              False

15)
The teacher of the winning mulitmedia project mentioned above shows 
it at an art conference and the teacher is awarded free attendance 
because he is a presenter. This is fair use.
      True              False

16)
Using a legal copy of the program Web Whacker, a district 
technology specialist downloads and caches educational and non-
educational web pages for school Internet training. By copying 
these pages onto the school's server she is violating copyright law.
      True              False

17)
"Seinfeld" has an episode on personal hygiene that a health teacher 
tapes and uses the following week in class. The local tv station 
denies permission when asked and states this is a violation of 
copyright law. They are correct.
      True              False

18)
A high school video class produces a student video yearbook that 
they sell at community events to raise money for equipment for the 
school. They use well-known popular music clips. The money all goes 
to the school and the songs are fully listed in the credits. This 
is covered under fair use.
      True              False

19)
A teacher creates her own grading program for use with her 
students. She transfers to another school and forgets to delete the 
program from the network. Everyone at her old school copies and 
uses the program. She sues the school and wins. She is likely to 
receive a significant monetary reward.
      True              False

20)
A library aide records "60 Minutes" every week in case teachers need 
it. This is fair use.
      True              False