Legal Issues in Copyrighting

What is Sampling?

• The legal use of other people's ideas.
• Taking part of a sound that has been recorded and adding that to a new piece of music.
• Trying food at Costco for free.
• Quoting a document written by someone else in your own work, without citing it.

How short does a sample have to be so it isn't a copyright infringement?

• 1 note
• 3 notes
• Any part of a song can be sampled
• Any form of sampling could be infringement

How many factors are used to determine Fair Use of a song?

• 6
• 2
• 4
• 25

Which one is NOT a factor in determining Fair Use?

• Amount Used
• Similarity Coefficient
• Market Harm
• The purpose of the use

What is the main reason Earsketch says Fair Use is in place?

• To anger artists who have worked hard on their song
• To create a learning environment for people to share their song
• To help people steal songs
• The allowing of people to use copyrighted materials in songs

When someone licenses something, what does that mean?

• They give permisson
• They make it official
• They make it into a book or a movie
• They give themselves the credit for creation

What is the most likely event for a musician who asks to use copyrighted music?

• The original artist sues him before he uses the song
• The artist gives him permission to use a certain part of a song
• The original artist signs over the copyright
• The original artist never replies to the request

What are free culture licenses?

• People must ask in order to use it
• You only allow close friends to use it
• You share your music to the world, and allow any other artist to use it
• No one is allowed to use it

What is special about Creative Common licenses?

• They make a song wide avaliable
• They allow a song to be downloaded on iTunes
• A person may use the song but only if the artist has signed a contract with a larger brand
• They allow the artist to specify rules for their song

Which is an example of Creative Commons?

• You can use this work however you like, but you have to put my name on it.
• You can use this work, except you can't use it
• You can use the song, but you must pay me $100 
• You can use the song but you must never show anyone what you've created