Cyber Citizenship Team Scholarship Quiz 1 Study Guide

Cyber Citizenship Team Scholarship

Quiz 1 Study Guide

Vocabulary and Questions

 

Vocabulary

 Bootleg

Copyright

Fair Use

No Electronic Theft Law (NET Act)

Plagiarism

P2P

Peer to Peer

Piracy

Public Domain

Turnitin

 

 Plagiarism

http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_plagiarism.html

 According to the PLAGIARISMdotORG Web site, plagiarism is an act of __________. It involves both stealing someone else’s work and lying about it afterward.

 

According to the Merriam-Webster online Dictionary, to “plagiarize” means all of the following except __________.

 

 The expression of original ideas is considered__________, and is protected by copyright laws, just like original inventions.

  

Most cases of plagiarism can be avoided by __________.

  

One form of plagiarism occurs when you copy so many words or ideas from a source that it __________.

 

 Citation

http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_citation.html

 A “citation” is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work __________.

 

Providing proper citations gives your readers the information necessary__________.

 

 Information about the author, the title of the work, the name and location of the company that published your copy of the source, the date your copy was published and the page numbers of the material you are borrowing are all part of __________.

 

 Whenever you borrow words or ideas, you need __________.

 

 Piracy

http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php

Individuals who illegally upload or download music online, making a CD of your favorite songs and giving it to a friend, criminals manufacturing mass numbers of counterfeit CDs for sale on street corners, in flea markets or at retail stores are all examples of __________.

 

http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php?content_selector=piracy_online_the_law

Piracy the law

Anyone that makes illegal copies of someone’s creative work is breaking the law by __________.

 

 The FBI warning at the beginning of a movie DVD or VHS cassette provides the message that it is illegal to __________.

 

Federal law provides severe __________ for the unauthorized reproduction, distribution, rental or digital transmission of copyrighted sound recordings. (Title 17, United States Code, Sections 501 and 506).

 

Allegations of criminal copyright infringement are investigated by __________and violators are prosecuted.

 

What the Law Says and What it Means
Anyone that makes unauthorized copies of music, videos, written material or other copyrighted work is __________.

  

Anyone that makes unauthorized copies of music, videos, written material or other copyrighted work is __________.

 

 When a person illicitly makes or distributes copyrighted material they are __________.

 

 __________ prohibits the unauthorized duplication, performance or distribution of a creative work.

 

 You need __________ before you copy and/or distribute a copyrighted music recording.

  

What the Courts Have to Say

A long series of court rulings has made it very clear that it is __________ copyrighted music without permission.

 

It doesn’t matter whether you’re dealing with sound recordings, pictures, software or written text, these are all __________ that are protected by copyright laws.

 

The courts have consistently ruled that __________ and other unauthorized uploading and downloading inherently amount to copyright infringement and therefore constitute a crime.

 

When you subscribe to a peer to peer network service and make the songs on your computer available to millions of others to download you have most likely __________.

 

 Do The Crime, Do The Time

According to the RII Web site, if you do not have legal permission, and you go ahead and copy or distribute copyrighted music __________.

 

The “No Electronic Theft Law” (NET Act) is similar on copyright violations that involve __________

 

According to the Net Act on the RII Web site, if you expect something in return for illegally copied music, even if it just involves swapping your files for someone else’s, as in MP3 trading, you can be sentenced __________.

 

What the Courts Have to Say About Illegal Uploading and Downloading…
…and Copyrighted Software: 

The unauthorized copying of copyrighted computer programs is _________.

 

 …and Copyrighted Text:
In the lawsuit between the Los Angels Times/Washington Post and Free Republic bulletin board (now called a blog) the Free Republic was taken to court and lost because they broke the copyright law by __________.

 

When It Comes to Copying Music, What’s Okay … And What’s Not:

Internet Copying

It’s okay to download music from __________.

 

 Kazaa, Grokster, WinMX, LimeWire, Bearshare, Aimster, Morpheus, and Gnutella are all examples of __________.

 

Copying CDs

It’s okay to copy music onto an analog cassette, flash drive or CD, but not for _________.

 

The owners of copyrighted material have the right to use __________ to allow or prevent copying.