Copyright, Fair Use and Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a set of licenses that automatically give you _____________ to do various things with other people's creations, such as reuse and distribute them.

• ownership
• passwords
  
• permission
• software

Sam created a video documentary about his life for a school project. He used 30 seconds of a copyrighted pop song for the introduction to his video. This is legal under:

• public domain
• fair use
• school policy
• copyright law

What is the only condition that a work must meet in order to be protected by copyright?

• It must have the copyright symbol
• It must be an original expression.
• Printed and filed with an agency.
• It must be presented by a law office

Which of the following is considered fair use of copyrighted material?

• Using 100% of the lyrics of a copyrighted song in your video
• Commenting about a music video on a social networking site.
• Reworking small parts of an original song to use it for a school project.
• Downloading a song from the Internet and making copies for your family.

Copyrighted material can be used if you:

• include a reference to the author.
• obtain permission or follow Fair Use guidelines.
• are using the material for a school assignment.
• do not see a copyright symbol.

You can use other people's copyrighted materials if you:

• are able to copy and paste it from the Internet.
• obtain a copy from your school library.
• pay a fee, obtain permission, or follow Fair Use guidelines.
• download the content from the Internet for free.

Which term means copying someone else's work and claiming it is your own?

• Homework
• Plagiarism
• Fair use
• Creative Commons

Which creative works are NOT protected by copyright?

• slogans, motion pictures

• musical, pictorial, dramatic works

• sound recordings

• ideas, slogans, names, short phrases

What is Fair Use?

• The ways you can use creative works without permission
• The ways you can use creative works with permission
• Using a resource any time, any way you want
• The right to download anything from the Internet

The ability to use a small amount of copyrighted work without permission, but only in certain ways and in specific situations

• Creative Commons
• Fair Use
• Creative Work
• Copyright