Copyright Basics
This type of protection covers original works of authorship once they’re fixed in a tangible form.
What is copyright?
This doctrine sometimes lets you use copyrighted material without permission for commentary, criticism, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research.
What is fair use?
The public domain is not a place; it’s this.
What is a concept meaning works not protected by copyright (in the U.S.)?
This Microsoft program is often used to draw simple shapes and pictures.
What is Microsoft Paint?
This shape is often used to represent “record” on a digital camera or video software.
What is a red circle?
These two requirements—“the work is your own” and “it’s captured in some stable form”—are the legal threshold for copyright.
What are originality and fixation?
Instead of a “10 seconds/10% rule,” fair use is decided this way.
What is a case-by-case analysis using the four factors?
Works created by this level of government are generally public domain in the United States.
What is the U.S. federal government?
The “undo” command on most computers is activated by pressing these two keys.
What is Ctrl + Z?
The primary colors of light are red, green, and this color.
What is blue?
True or False: You must register with the U.S. Copyright Office before your work is protected.
What is False? (Protection is automatic once fixed.)
This factor looks at how transformative your use is and whether it’s commercial or noncommercial.
What is the purpose and character of the use?
One way a work enters the public domain is when copyright does this.
What is expires (the term ends)?
This file format is one of the most common for digital images.
What is JPEG?
This type of image is made up of tiny squares called pixels.
What is a raster image?
Copyright protects expression, but not these things like ...
What are ideas/facts/systems/methods?
This factor asks whether you took a small portion or the “heart of the work.”
What is the amount and substantiality factor?
True or False: Once a work is public domain, you can use it without asking permission.
What is True?
The free website where you can search for almost any picture is called this.
What is Google Images?
This common tool in image editors looks like an eyedropper.
What is the color picker?
This “bundle” lets owners control copying, distributing, public performance/display,
What are the exclusive rights?
This factor examines whether your use could substitute for the original or harm its potential sales.
What is the effect on the potential market?
If you add new, original expression to a public-domain work, you may claim copyright in your additions. That kind of work is called what?
What is a derivative work?
This Adobe program is the industry standard for photo editing.
What is Photoshop?
This kind of file format can have a transparent background.
What is PNG?