SGS Teacher Resources

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