Answer
True or False to each of the following.
1.
The owner of the local Blockbuster Video store supports the school by
donating
one videotape 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.
2.
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.
3.
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.
4.
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.
5.
A student doing a multimedia report discovers how to copy the Quick
Time
movie of Kennedy’s "We Shall Go to the Moon" speech from a
CD-ROM
encyclopedia. He presents the report to his classmates, then posts it
on
the school LAN. This is fair use.
6.
Copyrighted material used in multimedia projects may remain in the
student’s
portfolio forever.
7.
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.
8.
A science teacher asks the school librarian to record a great episode
of
Bill
Nye the Science Guy on its original broadcast in September 1998. He
figures on using it for years. This is permissible.
9.
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 competition honoring classroom work and wins a
prize
for the school. This is covered under fair use.
10.
The teacher of the winning multimedia project mentioned above shows it
at an art conference for education. It costs $50 to attend the
conference
and the teacher is awarded free attendance because he is a presenter.
This
is fair use.
11.
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.
12.
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.
13.
Seinfeld has
an episode on personal hygiene that a health teacher tapes and uses the
following week in class. The local television station denies permission
when asked and states this is a violation of copyright law. They are
correct.
14.
A student brings in an audio cassette copy of the national anthem that
he copied from an audio CD lent to him by a friend. Another student
digitizes
this into a HyperStudio stack. This is fair use.
15.
A high school video class produces a student video yearbook that they
sell
at a 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.
16.
A school can only afford one copy of Kid Pix. It is loaded onto the
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 student work. This is permissible.
17.
A teacher creates his own grading program for use with his students. He
transfers to another school and forgets to delete the program from the
network. Everyone at his old school copies and use the program. He sues
the school and wins. He is likely to receive a significant monetary
reward.
18.
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.
19.
A media aide tapes 60 Minutes every week in case
teachers need
it. This is fair use.
20.
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.
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