Copyright Test

What does copyright protect? (Trick ?)

• facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation

• original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture.

• Names, titles. slogans, or short phrases

The U.S. Copyright Code provides for the educational use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder under certain conditions.

• True

• False

You came up with a great idea, but then you hear about someone else who had the same idea but they just verbalized it.

• If you don't write your ideas down, you can still be covered under copyright.

• A work eligible for copyright protection must be fixed in a tangible medium of express and recorded or written in some way to be protected.

Copyright law excludes protections for any

• idea, concept, discovery

• Procedure, process, system, of method of operation

• principle

• all of the above

Copyright law, and any copyright registration, protects only the expression of an idea, which is the specific set of _____, _______, or

________ that express the idea.

You can use someone else's idea without infringing their copyright if the express is sufficiently different.

• False

• True

What if I am creating something, but I also want to use someone else's creative work to enhance my work? Where can I find things I can use?

• Public Domain and Creative Commons

• Google

• I can't use any of it

Anything from 95 years ago to 1978 ...Any work of art, story, movie, novel, EVERYTHING...is considered public domain.

• True

• False

All creative work created after 1978 is copyrighted.

• True

• False

What if I need something new and not something old that I want to include in my work? Where can I find it?

• Google

• The Library

• Creative Commons

• TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook