LiDA103: Copyright MCQ challenge

An academic in a University has been invited to publish an article in his university webpage. He decided to explore the websites www.flickr.com and www.intechopen.com  to retrieve  suitable images and selected text based information that can be incorporated.

Q1. Can he use an image tagged as ‘all rights reserved’ from flickr.com?

• Distractor < A > – Yes, with prior permission from the flickr.com.
      Wrong, ownership belongs to flicker members who have uploaded items

• Answer < B > – Yes, with prior permission from the owner of the item.
      Correct.

• Distractor < C > – No, ‘all rights reserved’ items in flickr.com cannot be used by others.
      Wrong, can be used with proper procedure

• Distractor < D > – No, University website has public access so cannot use external items.
      Wrong, external links can be inserted in a web page

Q2. Can he reproduce without permission part of text from an article in an open access journal published by intechopen.com?.

• Distractor < A > – Yes, all journals at inetchopen.com permits that.
      Wrong, each journal may have different levels of permissions

• Distractor < B > – No, require prior permission from the intechopen.com.
       Wrong, it is not necessary to contact the main site
• Answer < C > – Yes, as long the attribution to the source is given.
        Correct
  
• Distractor < D > – No, require prior permission from the Journal.
         Wrong, does not require if attribution is given

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