Directions:  Copy the following 22 T/F statements into Microsoft Word.  Then, Open Word and paste them.  Go through and answer each one with a True of False beside each one.  Save the file for grading and discussion tomorrow.  Follow the link at the bottom to take the online tutorial when you are finished.

 

 Copyright Laws: Fact or Fiction

written by Roderick Hames, Crews Middle School ©2005

 

  1. Each state has its own copyright laws?
  2. As long as you don’t make money off a web site, you can post songs, images, and other thing about the artist on your site.
  3. The “fair use policy” allows a person to copy other people’s songs, images, or writings.
  4. For you to copyright your work you must send a form off to the copyright office in Washington D.C.
  5. A creation of art, song, or writing is copy protected for an artist’s life time only.
  6. You just saw a cool video on the web so you download the file and use it in your personal video- is it okay?
  7. You just wrote a poem, once it is written it is copy protected.
  8. It is okay to copy a friend’s CD he just paid for.
  9. You can copy a Shakespeare play since he has been dead for well past the limit of the copyright law.
  10. You paint a picture for the school on the wall of the library.  You no longer own the copyright.
  11. You can remain anonymous when you download songs off the Internet.
  12. Because the Internet is so new, copyright laws are not applied.
  13. Some abuses of copyright are criminal and therefore punishable with jail time.
  14. If you rightly purchased a painting you now own the copyright to it.
  15. For Educational purposes you can use a portion of others copyrighted work with out their permission.
  16. Copyright laws are intended to protect the author’s or creator’s rights.
  17. A work must have a copyright symbol (©) to be copy protected.
  18. If a work finds it way in an email or a public area on the web then it is automatically in “public domain” and therefore is not copy protected.
  19. If a work is substantially similar, then an court can find that you violated the law.
  20. Fair Use laws allow for copying of someone else's work with out their permission.

 

 

Do not copy below this point.

Take the online tutorial and follow the instructions.  [Click Here] to begin.

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