Unit 8: Assignment #1: Copyright and Copy-wrong

1.  " Fair dealings" protect a person when using other materials for research, privacy studies, criticism, reviews, news reporting, education, satire and parody.

2. Under fair dealings you can copy:

• Up to 10% of the work 
• One chapter of a book 
• A single article from a periodical 
• An entire artistic work
• An entire newspaper article or page 
• An entire entry from an encyclopedia

3. No you can not share multiple short excerpts from the same copyright protected piece of work.

4. Yes a fee can be charged by a place when providing others copyrighted work but only enough to cover the overhead costs there can not be any profit.

5.Yes they can as long as the copying is within the rules set out

6. No the school can not make a large print book for a student with vision problems without permission.

7. Yes they can if the student has a disability or if they need it for translation.

8. Yes you can perform of play music thats copyrighted:

• If it takes place on the premises of an education institution.
• Its for educationally or training purposes.
• It can not be for profit. 
• It takes place before an audience consisting mostly students.
• It must not include a "motive of gain".

9. Yes they can play music at their dances and sporting events if it takes place on the premises an it is not for profit.

10. The key questions to figure out if videos and music is legal for staff and students is:

• In school assemblies.
• In some form of a presentation.
• In actives where you are not making a profit.
• During school hours for teaching.
• Before and after school and during recess if for the use of educational purposes.

11. Yes students and teachers can use others copyrighted protected work to create new works if they follow these rules:

• It can be used for non-commercial purpose.
• The original work used to generate the content must been acquired legally.
• The resulting user generated content does not have a "substantial adverse effect" on the market for the original work.

12. Yes they can as long as these five conditions are met:

• The showing must take place on the premises of an educational institution.
• Audience must be students, instructors or person responsible for setting a curriculum. 
• The showing must be for educational or training purpose.
• The showing must not be for a profit.
• The copy shown must not be in infringing or the person responsible for the performance has no reasonable grounds to believe that it is an infringing copy.

13. No teachers can not copy an audio visual work at home then show it in the class room, but they can show a legally obtained copy in the classroom.

14. Owners of legal copies of computer programs may a single reproduction of these programs in only two situations:

1. The owner of the real copy of a computer program can make one backup copy. The person must be able to prove the backup copy is erased as soon as he/she is not the owner any longer.
2. An owner of a legitimate copy of a computer program may also make a single copy of that program by adapting, modifying, or converting the computer program or translating it into another computer language, provided that: 

•  The reproduction is essential for the compatibility of the program with a particular computer. 
•  The reproduction is solely for the person’s own use.
•  The copy is erased when the person ceases to be the owner of the copy of the program from which the copy was made.

15. Yes they can teachers and students may save or download publicly available internet materials.

16. No we don't think our works are copyright protected in school.

17.  Colford, L. (2010)
       Blackville School: A day in Blackville School
       Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
       ISBN: 0-0-55996-843-0
       $15.00