CISW 2293

Please respond to each question using Notepad, Word Pad, or Microsoft Word. Attach your document to an email and send to your instructor. This assignment is worth 10 points.

Photographs

These questions are based on the article found at:
http://www.ivanhoffman.com/web.html

1. You are a buding web designer and you take some digital photos of your classmates. One photograph of a particularly attractive classmate you decide to use on a web site you are designing for a customer. Do you need to get the classmate's permission to use his/her photo?

2. You are cruising the web when you come across a photograph that has been taken at Yosemite National Park. It is beautiful and you decide to "borrow" it for a web site you are designing for a customer. Does this violate the copyright law?

3. You are visiting CNN's website when you come across a photo of a celebrity. You decide to use the photo on a website you are designing for a customer. Whose permission [if anyone's] do you need?

The following questions are based on http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/webpage.html

4. You create an original graphic for your web site using Photoshop. You don't put a copyright mark on it. A month later, you discover your graphic on Yahoo's web site. Do you have any recourse under copyright law?

5. You have purchased a clip art library on a CD-ROM and use some of the images on your web site. The license agreement on the CD doesn't specifically place any restrictions on how the images can be used. Are you in trouble with copyright law?

5. You have found a great web site that offers free clip art. In small print at the bottom of the page, it says that their images are free to anyone, but they ask that you place a small notice on your page that says you have used graphics obtained from their web site. You use the graphics, but figure they are only kidding about the notice part. Have you violated the law?

6. You find some great graphics on the web that have been created by another web designer. You save the images to your hard drive and then modify them using Photoshop. You re-size the images to fit on the web page you are designing and make some other minor adjustments. Have you violated the copyright law?

7. You are a web designer and you are currently unhappy with Microsoft because of its new licensing policies and prices. You take the Internet Explorer logo and make some rather humorous modifications to it. You make it look like a hunk of Swiss cheese to imply that it is full of security holes. You place this image on a web page making fun of Microsoft's products in general and Internet Explorer in particular. Have you violated the law?

7. Let's say you have looked at copyright law concerning downloading someone else's graphics and you no you can't get away with it... So you decide to insert someone else's graphics by "calling" the graphic from the other web server like this.

Since the graphic is not "ON" your web site technically, have you violated the law? [Hint: see the section on linking]

8. You are a web designer who has been hired by InnerWise™ to design their web site. You go to register their domain name [innerwise.com] and discover that it has already been registered by a pimple-faced teenager in Ada, Oklahoma who has been waiting for InnerWise to "go web". Your company has registered InnerWise as a Trademark. Is there anything that can be done legally to register their domain as innerwise.com?

9. You are designing a web site for a company that specilizes in providing Wedding Planning and all the accessories. You are creating their web site with frames. The owner of the company has found some great web resources. He wants you to include some of these other web pages as a part of his web site. Is that OK?

10. In the example in #9, is there an appropriate way to provide the information the owner wants to provide? Give some suggestions.

FYI Here is another good link related to this topic:

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-941592.html