Deck 7: Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement: Stealing Other Peoples Stuff

Question 1

In journalism, plagiarizing has the following specific meaning: It refers to the use of 1,000 words or more of someone else's written work without crediting the source. If it is fewer than 1,000 words, you can use it without crediting the source.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Works in the public domain are available for everyone's use without permission or fees.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Ideas, facts and websites are the main categories that can be copyrighted.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A journalist should never link to a website with copyrighted material without first obtaining permission from the copyright holder.

Question 5

Copyright laws are not typically enforced for material on the Internet because it's understood that online information is available for anyone to use for free.

Question 6

Knowing that primary sources are most desirable, journalists avoid quoting other reporters' work. Do any of the following situations justify quoting stories from another news organization?

A) When a reporter is covering an important, fast-breaking news story, and another news organization posts an update, the reporter may refer to that update, and cite the source-although the reporter will still do his own original research to confirm the information.
B) When another news organization has a national and authoritative reputation, a journalist may freely quote from its stories.
C) When a reporter is on a tight deadline and can double-check that the information has appeared in at least two reputable news sites, the reporter may use information from either of those news sites.
D) None of the above

Question 7

Regarding the Fair Use Doctrine, to determine whether a person's use of copyrighted material is fair use, the courts have focused on which of the following issues:

A) The purpose of the use-whether it is for something like education or comment
B) The amount of the work used in relation to the original work
C) The effect of the use on the potential market for the work
D) All of the above

Question 8

You can make sure that you are paraphrasing, rather than plagiarizing, by following which of the following steps?

A) Be sure to credit the original source.
B) Use your own words.
C) If you need to use entire phrases or even unusual individual words from the original source, you probably need to quote the original source.
D) All of the above

Question 9

Please identify three steps you can take to avoid plagiarism.

Question 10

Please describe two specific ways that copyright infringement is stealing other people's stuff.

Question 11

Please describe the central, sometimes conflicting, interests that are at issue in copyright protection.

Question 12

After reading through the following scenario, please a.) identify any warning flags you see with regard to plagiarism, b.) identify any warning flags you see with regard to copyright, and c.) describe what your advice would be-justifying your reasoning using appropriate news values and legal and ethical principles in your answer

Question 13

Habits 4 quiz-exam questions
-The expectation that the news would be written in an objective tone was not something inherently part of news. Instead, it gradually arose, partly from people's reactions to a new technology-the telegraph.

Question 14

Habits 4 quiz-exam questions
-The Hutchins Commission was a committee that set out to determine what the press' duty to the public and to democracy was and how free the press was to fulfill that obligation. The commission published a famous critique of the press in 1947.

Question 15

Habits 4 quiz-exam questions
-A journalist cannot be completely unbiased.

Question 16

Habits 4 quiz-exam questions
-Inattentional blindness refers to the idea that people don't see everything, even what's right before their eyes, especially if they are too focused on a specific task.

Question 17

Habits 4 quiz-exam questions
-Which of the following is a critique of journalists' attempts to be objective?

A) In their attempts to be objective, journalists sometimes are afraid to introduce questions until their subjects do. This means that important questions sometimes aren't discussed until later, if ever.
B) It can serve as a rationale for lazy reporting-allowing reporters to get just two sides to an issue that may be much more complicated.
C) It can lead to reports that provide equal treatment and equal amounts of information from two sides when one is clearly more accurate.
D) All of the above

Question 18

Habits 4 quiz-exam questions
-Please define the following term and provide an example to illustrate: "lenses"

Question 19

Habits 4 quiz-exam questions
-What is one way that passive reporting could lead to a story with false balance?

Question 20

Habits 4 quiz-exam questions
-A friend of yours, who knows that you are studying journalism, offers you this opinion:
I get so sick of reporters being so biased. What ever happened to being objective? They just need to keep themselves out of the story.
What would you respond? What example would you give to illustrate your point?