| The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use (con'td)
Source: techlearning.com
Copyright Quiz #2
Answer True or False to the following 20 questions.
Click "Copyright Q#2 Key" link above for the answers.
Part I: Computers and Software
1. A student snaps in half a CD-ROM the teacher really needed for her next
class. The teacher decides to make a back-up copy of all her crucial disks so
it never happens again. This is permissible.
2. A technology coordinator installs the one copy of Photoshop the school owns
on a central server so students are able to access it from their classroom
workstations. This is a violation of copyright law.
3. A school has a site license for version 3.3 of a multimedia program. A
teacher buys five copies of version 4.0, which is more powerful, and installs
them on five workstations in the computer lab. But now when students at these
workstations create a project and bring it back to their classrooms, the
computers (running 3.3) won't read the work! To end the chaos, it's
permissible to install 4.0 on all machines.
4. The state mandates technology proficiency for all high school students but
adds no money to schools' software budgets. To ensure equity, public schools
are allowed to buy what software they can afford and copy the rest.
5. A geography teacher has more students and computers than software. He uses
a CD burner to make several copies of a copyright interactive CD-ROM so each
student can use an individual copy in class. This is fair use.
Part II: The Internet
6. A middle school science class studying ocean ecosystems must gather
material for multimedia projects. The teacher downloads pictures and
information on marine life from various commercial and noncommercial sites to
store in a folder for students to access. This is fair use.
7. An elementary school designs a password-protected Web site for families and
faculty only. It's OK for teachers to post student work there, even when it
uses copyright material without permission.
8. A student film buff downloads a new release from a Taiwanese Web site to
use for a humanities project. As long as the student gives credit to the sites
from which he's downloaded material, this is covered under fair use.
9. A technology coordinator downloads audio clips from MP3.com to integrate
into a curriculum project. This is fair use.
10. A teacher gets clip art and music from popular file-sharing sites, then
creates a lesson plan and posts it on the school Web site to share with other
teachers. This is permissible.
Part III: Video
11. A teacher videotapes a rerun of Frontier House, the PBS reality show that
profiles three modern families living as homesteaders from the 1880s did. In
class, students edit themselves "into" the frontier and make fun of the
spoiled family from California. This is fair use.
12. A student tries to digitize the shower scene from a rented copy of Psycho
into a "History of Horror" report. Her computer won't do it. The movie happens
to be on an NBC station that week, so the teacher tapes it and then digitizes
it on the computer for her. This is fair use.
13. A history class videotapes a Holocaust survivor who lives in the
community. The students digitally compress the interview, and, with the
interviewee's permission, post it on the Web. Another school discovers the
interview online and uses it in their History Day project. This is fair use.
14. On Back-to-School night, an elementary school offers child care for
students' younger siblings. They put the kids in the library and show them
Disney VHS tapes bought by the PTA. This is permissible.
15. A teacher makes a compilation of movie clips from various VHS tapes to use
in his classroom as lesson starters. This is covered under fair use.
Part IV: Multimedia
16. At a local electronics show, a teacher buys a machine that defeats the
copy protection on DVDs, CD-ROMs, and just about everything else. She lets her
students use it so they can incorporate clips from rented DVDs into their film
genre projects. This is fair use.
17. A number of students take digital pictures of local streets and businesses
for their Web projects. These are permissible to post online.
18. A student wants to play a clip of ethnic music to represent her family's
country of origin. Her teacher has a CD that meets her needs. It is fair use
for the student to copy and use the music in her project.
19. A high school video class produces a DVD yearbook that includes the year's
top ten music hits as background music. This is fair use.
20. Last year, a school's science fair multimedia CD-ROM was so popular
everyone wanted a copy of it. Everything in it was copied under fair use
guidelines. It's permissible for the school to sell copies to recover the
costs of reproduction.
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