Copyright law is complex and often confusing. This quiz was designed simply to get you thinking about some of the issues that can arise throughout the school year. Each division of the school has a copyright manual available for consultation. The Librarian and Director of Technology are happy to help with questions. We cannot give legal advice on copyright.

1. Your students are working on a classroom video project. Can they use six minutes of a half-hour news documentary?


2. 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. Is this fair use?


3. You are creating a webpage and want to include some great images.  Is it okay to use material from other websites as long as you cite it?


4. True or False-Fair Use is the right to copy entire copyrighted works without permission as long as it's for personal use.


5. CSL is holding a fundraiser for a charter school in Baltimore City at Mount Washington.  They are going to show a teacher’s copy of Wall. E.  This is fine, since the movie belongs to a teacher, right? 


6. Is it permissable to copy 10 pages of a workbook for your students?


7. Your students want to scan a section of a reference book, Poetry Criticism, and paste it into Moodle so that they can all have access at the same time. Is this okay since Moodle is password protected?


8. Is it okay to make a back-up copy of software you own?


9. You want to rent Gone With the Wind from a video store to show the burning of Atlanta scene to your class while studying the Civil War. Is this okay?


10. The library’s VHS copy of The Return of Martin Guerre is getting really worn out and it’s not available any more. May the librarian make a DVD copy from our video?


11. May I copy an article from a book for each of my students?


12. All of your 7th graders have worked really hard this year and you want to reward them by showing the movie Up. Is this okay?

 

Copyright Quiz Answer Key

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September 9, 2010