Unit 1 Quiz

Intellectual property is:

• Your brain.

• Knowledge.

• A creative work.

• I do not know.

You make a copy of a software program for your best friend, who is starting up a dogwalking service and needs to keep track of her jobs. This copy is considered:

• Fair use.

• Acceptable use.

• Illegal distribution of copyrighted software.

• Illegal distribution only if you sold it to your friend.

Copyright laws were created to:

• Encourage authors, musicians, and other artists to create works for the public.

• Encourage consumers to build on the work of artists.

• Punish those who steal the ideas of others.

• Ensure that profits from the sale of intellectual property go to the right people.

Your class videotapes a Battle of the Bands event at your school and posts one band’s performance of an original song to the Internet with the band’s permission. A technology teacher at a different school uses a portion of the video to show how video can be compressed. Which of these parties may be due financial compensation?

• The band

• Your class

• Nobody is due compensation because it is probably fair use.

• I’m not sure.

If you want to use a celebrity’s video clips and digital photographs on your fan club Web site, the safest approach is to:

• Download only the video clips.

• Provide a link to the celebrity’s Web site.

• Ask the celebrity and photographer for permission.

• Make your Web site private.

In developing a screenplay for your drama class, you may use parts of someone else’s script if you:

• Give credit to the original playwright.

• Create a setting that is slightly different.

• Deviate from the original story line and creative expression.

• Any of the above may make the use acceptable.

It is always OK to copy and share music you find on the Internet.

• True

• False

Which creative work is NOT protected by copyright law?

• Your own personal drawings

• Music recordings

• Poems and books

• Government photographs

An example of intellectual property is:

• A novel.

• A painting.

• A piece of music.

• All of the above.

It is safe to copy a book, computer game, or CD if it does not have the copyright symbol on its packaging.

• True

• False