Thing 9 - Copyright quiz

What You Copied . . .

                        Was it Right?

The following items will clarify your understanding of copyright laws for use of any materials borrowed from authors of various domains. 

1.       True or False              A copyright protects a creator’s expressions and ideas.

2.       True or False                 Any expressions created by you on the Internet are                                           automatically copyright protected.

3.       Who would you contact if you wanted to sue someone for using your creations on the Internet?

          a)  The State Police

          b)  United States Copyright Office in Washington D.C.

          c)  The creator of the search engine where your created expressions and                     ideas are

          d)  The Department of Justice

4.       True or False              Any work published in the U.S. prior to 1923 is now in                                     the public domain; its copyright has expired.

5.       True or False                 Any work(s) published by the United States                                                      government along with any government information                                        needs Washington’s approval for use by the public                                           under the U.S. copyright laws.

6.       What is the name of the policy that entitles educators to use copyrighted   materials with in specified guidelines without getting permission from the originator of the piece? 

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7.       What does it mean if you see this symbol on the page of an Internet document,           image, piece of audio, etc. that you intend to use in your classroom?              ______________________________________________________________________________

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Using a Creative Commons notice, creators specify the rights conveyed to users such as to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, provided attribution is given. Watch for the Creative Commons logo.

You can learn more about Creative Commons at http://creativecommons.org/

8.       What correlation exists between the terms attribution  and copyright? 

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9.       True or False                  All student work falls under the copyright law as soon                                                 as it is turned into a final product for publishing or                                                presenting.

10.      True or False             Under the copyright laws, a teacher has to obtain                                             student permission to share or use anything created by                                             a student.

 I typed this quiz in Word; however, after copy and pasting it into this blog, the spacing would as unalterable and I could not line up my wording.  This looks better in its original format.  

I really do think that it is essential for all students to know and all teachers to be reminded or taught that all of this copyright information is attainable and very helpful.  I have been introducing it to my 7th grade L.A. students, as we are creating PowerPoints of their life metaphor.   They have begun to utilize the Flickr.com site to gather a library of images to use.  Moreover, if a Google image search is needed, they are learning how to find the copyright information for the images and sound clips and identify the creator/author on each slide or in a cited sources/credits slide at the end.   They really thought it was neat that their original works are considered theirs and copyrighted once it is produced and published.