Copyright and Fair Use SR

Computers & Software

1. Knowing that teachers are allowed to make back-up copies of "crucial" disks was a bit of relief to me. We all know that some high schoolers have quite the temper and the idea of one of them snapping a lesson-oriented CD-ROM in half didn't surprise me, but knowing it's okay to make a back-up copy is good.

2. This was 1 of the measly 10 that I got right, and even though my guess was correct I was still a little surprised. I wouldn't know myself how to install Photoshop on the central server thing but it seems like a great way for all students to be able to access a good program.

Internet

7. This kind of surprised me; I answered false because the "outside world" was just what I had in mind when I was choosing my answer. Nowadays it seems like a lot more people have the technology to access "protected" sites.

8. A student downloading a new release from a Taiwanese website sounded not 100% legal, but I thought maybe him adding the credits would somehow make it a little more legal. I was wrong, again. I am glad they provided a couple places for us to check copyright ownership.

Video

14. I didn't realize that you had to pay Disney (and possibly other companies?) a fee in order to watch their movies in that kind of situation; it didn't say either way if the childcare program was making any money off of it so I assumed they weren't and figured it wasn't a big deal.

15. I had a similar reaction to this one, making a compilation of clips and not getting any monetary profit out of it seemed innocent enough to me, but I was proved wrong yet again. Apparently I'm extremely uninformed on multimedia copyright laws.

Multimedia

16. Once again I'm wrong, but that whole situation just sounded illegal. I was surprised that teacher's are allowed to use material that is technologically blocked; at least it was a good surprise.

17. For some reason I thought it was illegal to post photos that had the names of businesses (I don't know why), but knowing it is legal makes things a lot easier. Now we don't have to worry about angling the camera just so, except at Disneyland and "architectural landmarks".