Scenario #12

Students have been instructed to create a display or website about their favorite place. The teacher warned the students that points will be deducted from their final score if he finds any copyright violations. Not wanting to jeapordize his grade, Timmy Thompson gets his parents to drive him to his favorite place and takes pictures to use on his website. When students present their finished projects to the class, Timmy notices that Susie Simpson has used a bunch of pictures on her website that he knows must have been taken by a professional photographer. She didn't even site the source of the images. Timmy complains to the teacher that he thinks Susie used copyrighted images on her website. Susie defends herself, claiming that she got the images off of a U.S. government website and was allowed to use the images without restrictions because they were in the public domain.

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