Copyright and Legal Protection Quiz

Sophie’s grandfather returned from a three-month trip to Alaska. He brought back three oil paintings that he created of the Alaskan landscape. Sophie wants her grandfather to get legal protection over his paintings. What can he do to accomplish this?

• Put his name in the corner of each painting.

• Register for a copyright on each painting.

• Make digital prints of the painting.

• File for fair use on each painting.

Lee’s dad was a non-fiction author. During his lifetime, he wrote seven books that were copyrighted. Lee’s dad died last year at the age of 80. When will the copyrights expire if the estate does not renew the copyrights?

• The copyrights expire at the moment of the author’s death.

• The copyrights will expire 7 years after the author’s death.

• The copyrights will expire 70 years after the author’s death.

• The copyrights expire at the moment of the author’s eldest child’s death.

Adam put a lot of pictures on a presentation that anyone could see. After a week, he got a letter saying he might be in trouble for using pictures that are legally protected without asking first. What do people think Adam might be guilty of?

• Copyright infringement

• Parody

• Citation

• Public domain

Lana posted ten new venison recipes that she created on the Internet. Two weeks later she saw a post on social media marketing one of her recipes. Why is this not a copyright violation?

• Statistical information or measurements can only have a copyright if they contain graphs.

• Documents with familiar symbols within them cannot have a copyright.

• Recipes are considered the same as a speech and therefore cannot have a copyright.

• Common ideas, concepts or methods of doing something cannot have a copyright.

Sam created some digital graphics. He used Creative Commons as a license. Each graphic has CC BY-SA conditions. In addition to giving the original author credit, how may a person use these graphics without violating this license?

• Each may be copied, changed, distributed or used. Can be used for commercial use. New work must have the same license.

• Each may be copied, distributed, or used for noncommercial use only.

• Each may be copied, distributed, changed or used for noncommercial use only. New work must have the same license.

• Each may be copied, distributed or used unchanged for commercial use.

Val is creating a school video project. She is using music that has a copyright in the background. She is only using 30 seconds of the music and looping it. What allows her to do this legally?

• Creative Commons

• Parody

• Fair use

• Public domain

Robert was accused of copying part of a student's report. Both ended up in trouble for plagiarizing content from the Internet. How can students use someone else's digital work ethically?

• Create a Creative Commons license for their work and reference the other authors.

• Use only 30% of any book or article found on the Internet.

• Create citations for information that originated from the Internet.

• Paraphrase the content in the introduction and conclusion of any report.

Noah is researching weather for a video project he is creating. He needs at least three authoritative sources for the project. As Noah was researching, he lost track of all his digital sources and was accused of plagiarizing his project. What should he do next time to avoid this problem?

• Write down all URLs on a piece of paper.

• Use his browser bookmark feature to track his sources.

• Ask Google search what websites he visited in the last week.

• Check his browser history to review all websites he visited.

Brian created a website for his bakery that he just opened. He used images that he found through Google Search. He did not give credit to the creators of the images on the website. What could he be accused of?

• Parody

• Fair use violation

• Public domain violation

• Plagiarism

Oliver wants to use some older digital images on his blog. He doesn’t know who the copyright owners are. What would be a good way to start searching for this information?

• Search the United States Copyright Office Public Catalog website to find the owner.

• Use many social media posts to ask about the image owners.

• Use an image description in all the main search engines to find the owner.

• Ask a local art museum if they know who the owner could be.