Copyright And Fair Use For Educators
How much do you know about Copyright and Fair Use as it applies to education?
- 1.What is Fair Use?
- A.
A term used to describe the illegal downloading of music
- B.
A law that allows people to copy their favorite DVDs for their friends
- C.
An exception to the Copyright Law
- D.
A law that protects original creative works
- 2.Copyright protects the people who photocopy materials for classroom use.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Check the examples of Fair Use:
- A.
A teacher reads a poem aloud to her class
- B.
A principal tells a department head to print out multiple copies of a textbook
- C.
A student uses a quotation in their essay
- D.
An instructor passes out copies of the first chapter of Heart of Darkness to her class
- 4.Where is Copyright mentioned in the U.S. Constitution?
- A.
Article II Section 8
- B.
Article I Section 7
- C.
Article I Section 8
- D.
Article B Section Q
- 5.Teachers have broader rights than school librarians where copyright is concerned.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Under Fair Use, check which of the following teachers are allowed to photocopy
- A.
A photograph of a Georgia O'Keeffe painting
- B.
An article on a feminist's perspective of Miley Cyrus
- C.
A graph showing the average amount of sleep high school students get in different grades
- D.
A Far Side cartoon
- 7.How much of a prose work can a teacher photocopy for their students?
- A.
5,000 words or 35% of the work
- B.
All of the work
- C.
50% of the work
- D.
1,000 words or 10% of the work
- 8.A 1st grade teacher can make a copy of a Reading Rainbow episode for her class if she cannot find a copy or cannot find a reasonably priced copy
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Teachers may upload the following materials to their website without citation
- A.
Raffi's song, Bananaphone, that plays as a site intro
- B.
An original poem they wrote
- C.
A YouTube video of a monkey eating a banana
- D.
Their favorite Rachel Ray recipe for banana bread
- 10.The Fair Use rules for uploading material applies the same for instructors teaching at public schools as they would for an instructor working at a high school with tuition.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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