Copyright Quiz

Individuals, who are affiliated with an education institution aren't allowed to use copyrighted text material or motion media from the Internet without obtaining permission from the owner.

False An educator or student can use 10% or 1000 words (smallest of the two) of text material and 10% or 3 minutes (smallest of the two) for motion media works without obtaining permission from the copyright owner.

E-mail messages that are posted on-line aren't considered copyrighted material.

False Copyright protects original works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. Email is consider original work.

When obtaining permission to use copyrighted material, it is not necessary to contact the owner of the copyrighted works.

False It is necessary to contact the owner of the copyrighted works. The owner of the copyrighted material is the only person who can give you permission to use the work.

If I print, copy, and distribute material from the Internet I am not violating the copyright law.

False According to the copyright law, an individual has to obtain permission from the owner of the "original works" if he or she is interested in copying, altering, and/or distributing information collected from the Internet.

If the owner of the copyrighted item doesn't protect their copyright works, they lose it.

False Copyright is never lost, unless it is given away. However, if a piece of material was created prior to the revision of the 1989 copyright law and the "owner" of the copyrighted works did not renew the copyright, that particular piece of work is now in the public domain.

If an article on-line doesn't have the copyright symbol, then it is not consider copyrighted material.

False This was true until the revision of the 1989 copyright law, which states that it is not necessary to indicate a copyright symbol and/or statement on "original works" in order for it to be protected by copyright law.

It is legal to use a small portion of copyrighted material for education purposes.

True It is legal to use a small portion or copyrighted material for educational purposes such as teaching materials, media projects and/or research documents and non-educational purposes. Including material used for a discussion piece or comment section. (Fair Use).

Items on-line that aren't considered original work are blank forms, short phrases, names, titles, facts, and ideas.

True Original "non-copyrighted" ideas, facts, titles, names, short phrases and blank forms are not consider copyrighted material.

It is illegal to scan images out of a book or magazine to one's web site.

True You can't freely scan images from a book or magazine. You can however scan your own photograph or images you have created to your web site.

The copyright law protects an on-line web page document.

True Copyright protects original works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. An on-line web page is considered a tangible form.