6 Copyright Issues Internet Hunt Revised 9-14 526m71

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Standard(s):  Legal and Ethical Practices-Observes laws, rules and ethical practices in the workplace  Professionalism: Conducts oneself in a professional manner appropriate to organizational expectations.  CIS 105 Identify positive social and ethical behaviors when using technology and the consequences of misuse. (VII) VII. Social and Ethical Issues A. Ethics B. Viruses C.Security D.Ergonomics E. Intellectual Property Rights F. Privacy

Directions:

Use the links provided to find the answers to the questions. You will have to hold your Control key down and click on the link. Type your answers using a red font. http://www.copyrightkids.org/cbasicsframes.htm http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter0/0a.html http://www.whatiscopyright.org/ 1. You find the perfect image for your report on a web site. Under the picture is a copyright notice. How should you handle this? Ask the copyright owner for permission to use the picture

2. You paid $25 for the newest cd of your favorite group. Your best friend's family has fallen on hard times. You make a copy of the cd for him. Is this ok? Not OK? Why? Not ok you don’t own the rights to the music on the cd.

3. What three factors qualify a work for copyright protection? It must:  

Be original Be tangibly fixed ( replica of the work / physical copy)

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 4. What three things may be included in a copyright notice? Research the answer. The owner, the copyright symbol, and the year of first publication.

5. Name two people from the following website who were accused of or caught plagiarizing and what were they accused of plagiarizing. Melania Trumps speech writer plagiarized parts of Melania Trumps speech rom Michelle Obama 6. Congratulations, you wrote a great book. How long is that book copyright protected according to the US Copyright Office? The lifetime of the other and 70 years after their death. 7. Your group is creating a web site as a class project. While researching on the Internet, you discover a great online puzzle that really fits your project. None of you knows how to make online puzzles. Are you legally permitted to copy the web page and add it to your web site? Explain why. http://www.halldavidson.net/copyright_chart.pdf No, because

8. Since your project's site will be online, what is an alternative to posting it in your site? http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620#link (must use FireFox or Chrome NOT Internet Explorer)

9. How much music, from your favorite rock group, can you add to the project?(See chart in #7’s resource) 10% or a maximum of 30 seconds

10. The opening shot from a hit movie would be a great closing for the class digital yearbook. How much can you use? (See chart in #7’s resource) 10% or 3 minutes

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11. What is public domain? The state of being not copyrighted and available to the public

12. Is everything on the Internet Public Domain? Name the 3 circumstances when material may be copied freely from the web. http://www.whatiscopyright.org/

(Hint: Use the Find command to scan the text rather than read the whole page. To do this using most web browsers, go Edit ... Find. Enter the keywords and click Find. The text will be highlighted. Edit ... Find again will take you to the next occurrence of the word.) No,

most things on the internet aren’t public domain. Material may be copied freely when it is owned by the federal government, the copyright has been abandoned, and the copyright has expired.

13. What are the five exclusive rights given to copyright owners under the Copyright Act? http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/scope.html 

the right to reproduce

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the right to prepare derivative works

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the right to distribute copies

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the right to perform

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the right to display

14. Write one of the The Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics. http://sr.org/issues/ethics/cei/ Thou shalt not use a computer to steal.

15. How do you feel about file sharing? File sharing is okay every once in a while Rubric: Students will be given 2 points for each correct answer for a total of 30 points.

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