Copyright & Fair Use

Copyright status is only granted to well-known authors and filmmakers

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The Motion Picture Association of America has anti-piracy sniffing dogs.

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The sole purpose of copyright is to make authors money and protect them from getting their works stolen.

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Amy tells Daniel about her summer vacation and he says he'd love to see her pictures. Amy uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program to upload the photographs she took at camp so he can download them. This is copyright infringement.

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Amy tells Daniel that the files are available. Daniel uses the same peer-to-peer file-sharing program to download Amy's camp pictures. This is copyright infringement.

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Jason copies the entire last chapter from the final Harry Potter book to his commercial blog without any additional commentary.  Since he only used part of the work, Jason would be protected by fair use.

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Kathy downloaded a few photos of local organic farms from Flickr.com's Creative Commons (CC) pool.  She follow the rules of the photographer's specific CC license and uses them in her digital video about sustainable agriculture.  That's OK.

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Dwight finds a peer-to-peer network that offers free music downloads. He owns all but one of his favorite band's songs, and he finds that particular song on the network. He's too cheap to buy it, so he downloads the song. He is committing copyright infringement.

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Paula read an interesting article about the making of the film "Titanic" and wants to use a short quote in her cinema review paper for journalism class. This is copyright infringement.

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• False

The Public Domain is a polar research station in Antarctica.

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• False