This Worksheet Accompanies the Questions at the Scavenger Hunt Website

We’re Going on a Scavenger Hunt!

You guys are going to do two presentations for our class, both of which will use resources on the Internet. To make sure we know what to do legally with the stuff we find on the Web, first we’re going to go on a scavenger hunt looking for places where we can find good advice and good resources for our projects. Keep in mind- one project is going to be about molecules and the other project is about at least one way our government is involved in science. As we go hunting, you may want to start using some of the resources to search for this information.

This worksheet accompanies the questions at the Scavenger Hunt website, http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/melissagetz/502/scavenger.htm

Copyright

Since many of you like to include YouTube videos in your presentations, you should do a little research on how to appropriately use the videos you find in YouTube or from any online video source. Use this page, and the page from the University of California, to help you answer the questions about copyright: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/# http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_education to answer these questions:

1. When do songs, ideas written down or art become covered by copyright? 2. What is one reason published works had to be registered in England starting in 1662? 3. In 1790 George Washington signed the first copyright law for the US. How many years were given to books, maps and charts for copyright protection? 4. Why does the school have to pay royalty fees if they want to do a public performance of a play or musical? When did this law go into effect? 5. In 1909 the number of years covering copyright protection was extended to how many years? 6. What date started the protection of musically published works? Note it is because of this law that you can not download songs off the Internet without paying for them. 7. In 1978 how long was the copyright protection extended to in years? 8. When was computer software first covered by copyright protection? (year) 9. How many years was copyright protection extended to in 1998? What is the name of the act that created that extension? 10. If it's on the Internet, can I use it? 11. Does copyright protect my ideas? 12. Copyright protection means the copyright owner can do what? (List at least two privileges that are given to the copyright owner.) 13. What is not covered by copyright? (2 things) 14. When can you use something in a video without getting the copyright owner’s permission before you use it? 15. What is copyright infringement? 16. How can you avoid copyright infringement? 17. If you give credit to the copyright owner, will that automatically save you from being guilty of copyright infringement? Explain your answer.

Fair Use:

Let this source, http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9- a.html#1 help you with the following two questions.

18. What is “fair use”? 19. The Stanford website explains two situations where you can use parts of somebody’s copyrighted work under the concept of “fair use”. List two situations where you are allowed to use a part of a person’s copyrighted work legally.

Use this page, http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_permissions, or this page, http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html, to help you with these questions:

20. What are the four factors weighted by courts to determine fair use? 21. What can happen if you use somebody’s copyrighted work and it does not fall under the realm of “fair use"?

Educational Fair Use

Website link: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter7/7- b.html,

22. In Chapter 7 of their website, Stanford lists three situations for “Educational Use”. What are those three situations?

Clip-Art laws

Clip Art is covered by copyright laws.

Even though I am not a fan of using stuff published at "About.com", this page looks pretty thorough and accurate to describe how clip art can and cannot be legally used. http://webclipart.about.com/od/msub67/a/copyrights.htm

This website also has good information. http://clip-art-review.toptenreviews.com/clip-art- when-illegal.html

23. What is clip-art? 24. What is free clip-art? 25. How do you know the clip-art you want to use is free? 26. What does royalty-free mean? 27. What are stock images? 28. If I'm using a cartoon image or clip-art for an editorial, do I have to get permission from the copyright owner? Can't I just use it for free because it is being used in context of criticism? Public Domain

Some images, videos, and other original works exist in what is called the "public domain".

The University of California explains what falls in the public domain at their website: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/copyright/publicdomain.html

29. What works fall in he public domain according to the University of California website? 30. When can works in the Public Domain be used without paying royalties? 31. List six types of work that automatically fall in the public domain. 32. Work published prior to what year is automtically put in the public domain? 33. How can you put work deliberately in the Public Domain?

Cornell has a webpage describing what automatically falls in the public domain and when items not automatically in the public domain become a part of the public domain. Use this link to help you answer questions about the public domain written about at the Cornell website. http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

34. Unpublished works are items that have been created and exist in some form, but they have not gone through a formal copyright registration. This website (Scavenger Hunt) is an example of an unpublished work, but it is covered by copyright because it was created and put online for others to see and use. Even though I put the copyright symbol on it, it is not formally registered with the US government as a published work. Knowing this, how long is something like this website, an unpublished work, covered automatically by copyright law? In other words, when will what I say here enter the public domain so that someone could just copy what I wrote and publish it under his or her name?

For example, almost anything published by the US government is automatically in the public domain. Let this link to information about the legality of using government images help you answer the questions about the public domain. http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml

35. What are the restrictions placed on usage of images or documents published by the US government? Creative Commons

Use the Creative Commons website, http://creativecommons.org/about, to help you answer questions about the Creative Commons.

36. How do items covered by creative commons copyrights compare to items that are in the “public domain”? 37. Are Government images found with a Creative Commons search? Places where you can get media to use in your presentation

Fill in the following chart:

In the “empty boxes” at the end, find two government websites that have images or video media readily available to be used in the public domain. Be sure to list the website name, its URL, and what information you can find there.

Describe the Website name Link to website / URL information you can find there.

Wikipedia: Public Domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain Image resources _image_resources

Free eBooks from Project http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Gutenberg

Prelinger Archives http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger

Flickr, creative commons http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ information

PDB-101, protein data http://www.pdb.org/pdb/101/static101.do? bank education website- p=general_information/about_pdb/policies_reference what can you find at this s.html specific link?

PDB-101, protein data http://www.pdb.org/pdb/101/structural_view_of_biol bank education website- ogy.do what can you find at this specific link?

Government site of your choice #1:

Government site of your choice #2: