Works the public is interested in knowing more about.
How did the change introduced in the laws of the late 1980’s affect copyrights? (2:42)
Works became copyrighted automatically the moment they were made.
All intermediaries were legally abolished in the application of copyright laws.
The copyrights of the authors were relaxed.
It introduced the CC.
What was a shortcoming of the new copyright law introduced in the late 1980’s? (3:14)
It could not be understood by computers.
It was unable to give copyright owners full protection of their rights.
It did not allow the copyright owner to share their right with others easily.
It did not allow middlemen to help people to apply for permission of using copyrighted materials.
Which of the following could be a bad consequence of the situation that people would prefer “to do nothing in a haze of legal doubts”? (4:12)
It could slow down society’s progress as people would stop trying to use copyrighted materials for further creation.
It would slow down the copyrights industry as people would stop buying copyrights from the owners.
The intermediaries would not be able to survive.
It would put the Big C out of its job.
Why was the Big C out of its job but not the middlemen? (4:16)
The Big C was so difficult to administer that people had to make use of the help of the middlemen to seek permission for using copyrighted materials.
The Big C was unable to define copyrights clearly and it required the middle to give them clear definitions.
Staff working in the Big C had all quit and joined the middlemen companies.
The middlemen were so dissatisfied with the Big C that they were going to invent a new institution, the CC, to replace it.
What is the biggest difference between the big C and the CC? (4:30)
In the advertisement, the Big C says ‘Please come in” but the CC does not.
The Big C does not allow public use of any part of its copyrighted materials but CC allows use of some of them.
The CC requires intermediaries to administer.
The CC requires the government licence office to administer.
How does CC complement the function of the Big C? (5:15)
It further protects the copyrights of the work owner.
It skips the intermediaries and makes the Big C cheaper to apply
It reduces the rights of the copyright owners and makes them available to the public.
It retains the rights of the copyright owners but makes it easy for them to allow some of their rights for public use.
Why is it that if the Big C is the red light, the CC is the green light? (5:25)
The copyright of traffic lights design was protected by the Big C and CC licences at different stages of its development.
The focus of the Big C is on disallowing public use of copyrighted materials but that of the CC is on allowing public use of some parts of them.
The Big C licence is represented by a red logo and that of the CC is represented by a green one.
Just like the way that the red and green traffic lights give opposite directions to the traffic, the Big C and CC conflict with each other.
How does the internet help the functioning of CC? (5:40)
It helps users to easily find the CC licence owners and ask for their permission.
It allows people to see online which parts of the copyright work is allowable for sharing and to build on and to invite others to transform and trade them.
It quickens the application process of the CC licence.
It effectively disallows trespassers to CC copyrights.
How does the use of Creative Commons allow us to skip the intermediaries? (4:56)
The information about which part of the intellectual property is open for public sharing is available on the internet.
The Creative Commons does not allow the use of intermediaries.
The Creative Commons licences are too complicated and costly for intermediaries to administer.
The purpose of setting up the Creative Commons is to skip the intermediaries.
Why is it not necessary to ask for permission for use of some CC materials? (6:06)
The CC licence owners are not allowed to give such permission.
The required permission has already been given under the CC licence.
The CC licence has already given the green light for the public to use all copyrighted materials.
The permission has already been covered under the BigC.