BAES Copyright Law

Copyright laws are intended to protect the author’s or creator’s rights.

• True

• False

You just saw a cool video on the web so you download the file and use it in your personal video collection – this is okay?

• Yes

• No

A creation of art, song, or writing is copy protected for an artist’s life time only.

• True

• False

You just wrote a poem, once it is written it is copy protected.

• True

• False

You can remain anonymous when you download songs off the Internet.

• True

• False

For Educational purposes you can use a portion of others copyrighted work without their permission.

• True

• False

A work must have a copyright symbol (©) to be copy protected

• True

• False

It is okay to copy a friend’s CD he just paid for.

• True

• False

If you rightly purchased Software you now own the copyright to it.

• True

• False

If an original work finds it way in an email or a public area on the web then it is automatically in “public domain” and therefore is not copy protected.

• True

• False