Fair Use

1.Copyright status is granted to anyone who creates an original idea and presents it as their own.
2.The Motion Picture Association of America uses sniffing dogs to detect pirated DVDs. They use them because they are able to find pirated DVDs, which is illegal. 
3. It is legal to buy a CD or DVD and then resell because you have already paid the rightful company their money for it. The First Sale Doctrine protects this sale. 
4. The purpose of copyright is to protect a creator's original work and to allow them to receive the benefits from their idea. It also promotes  the growth of ingenuity.   
5. Yes, because he hasn't secured the photographer's explicit permission to use his photos and he also hasn't given the photographer credit for his work. 
6. It is legal to share music that someone has the copyright to when you have special permission to do so and when you have, yourself, already bought it. 
7. Fair use is a doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without having to have permission from the copyright holder.
8. Creative Commons licensing allows creators to pick which copyright rights they want to reserve for their use only and which rights they will allow the public to have. It is based upon copyright rules. 
9. It is acceptable to use copyrighted work for teaching, criticism, news, and parodies. 
10. Rental DVDs are allowed to be shared during the rental period because you have paid for the temporary release of the owner's copyrights. 
11. Public Domain is available to the public and is not under copyright regulations. 
12. The US Government's archive is open to the Public Domain but the few items that remain copyrighted can be used after following the specific limitations of that work. 
13. False. The copyright for Night of the Living Dead is part of the Public Domain and may be used freely.
14. Justin's copyright goes into effect as soon as he creates his tangible work. The copyright lasts his life time plus 70 years. If his copyright is infringed upon he can take legal action.