Fair Use

Since the 1970's, every picture, song, story, movie, sculpture, and drawing created is automatically copyright protected. 

• True
• False

All of these works below can be copied without worrying about copyright law...except one. Which one of these is not okay to copy and use?

• Works created by the government 
• Works that the creator gave away by putting them in the public domain
• Works that are found using a Google image search
• Works that are so old that the copyright protection has expired.

If you are using a small portion of a copyright protected song for a school project, it's okay. Why?

• It's not a popular song, so nobody cares.
• Copying the work of others for school is part of Fair Use.
• You bought the song and added it to your iTunes library.
• Your teacher really likes that song, so you might get an A.

There are 4 questions you must ask yourself to determine if your use of someone else's creation is covered by Fair Use. Which is not one of those four questions?

• How much of the work are you using?
• What is your purpose of copying it? Are you using it for school, parody, or the news?
• If you copy it, will it hurt the sales of the original work?
• Will you get caught if you copy it?

The Fair Use guideline says that I can use 10%.... up to 30 seconds of a video or song. If the song is 3 minutes (hint 180 seconds) long, how much should I copy?

• 1 minute
• The whole song
• 18 seconds
• 30 seconds

Our country's founding fathers wrote the copyright protection laws so that Americans could profit from creating original works. This would encourage people to keep creating.

• True
• False

If an image you want to copy does not have the copyright symbol on it, you can use it any way you want.

• True
• False

If you want to use copyrighted material outside of the Fair Use guidelines, you should do which of the following?

• Ask your teacher if it's okay
• Contact and ask the copyright holder for permission 
• Use it... and hope nobody notices

Even if you use works that are public domain, you should give credit to the source. (We call this attribution.)

• True
• False

If I found the work (picture, song, story...) on the internet, it must be public domain.

• True
• False