Copyright Questions from the Electronic Frontier Foundation

You create an interesting image for the front page of your website. You post it there for the world to see. Amazon places the image on the front page of their website. This is legal.

• True

• False

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

• True

• False

Sam buys a new band's CD but decides he doesn't like the singer, so he resells the CD on eBay. That's legal.

• True

• False

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

• True

• False

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.

• True

• False

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

• True

• False

Latoya finds a site with torrent links to download movies for free. She owns ever Star Wars movie but one, she finds the film and downloads it. She's not committing copyright infringement.

• True

• False

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. That's copyright infringement.

• True

• False

Adam recorded a video for his YouTube channel about the upcoming Senate elections and includes an official photo taken by a government employee and four bills authored by the incumbent that Adam found on the Senate's website. That's copyright infringement.

• True

• False

Since Jamar forgot to register his screenplay before he sent posted it on a few websites, he is no longer eligible to copyright it.

• True

• False