1. What is the "carbon footprint" of Spam?
2. Can your employer monitor your email?
3. Why was Skype service interrupted for 24 hours?
4. Are electric cars really better for the environment?
5. How much does Google know about your web surfing?
6. Why does my bank keep sending me email asking for my account password?
7. Why does my Cal Poly password have to be so complicated?
8. Why should I buy organic bananas?
9. To what country does the U.S. ship most of its junk computers?
10. Does Windows really get more viruses than Linux?
11. Would you use Verizon's "Chaperone" cell phone service to track your children?
12. Will the supreme court overturn California's ban on violent video games?
13. Should I insist on a paper ballot and avoid computer voting in the next election?
14. Is illegal music downloading really affecting music sales?
    

• When the problem says "party members" it is NOT referring to candidates for public office. It just means some citizen who is registered to vote for that party.
• In reality there is no national, centralized voter-registration database. But imagine that there is just for the problem.
• "Voter registration" is NOT voting history. It says nothing about how a person has voted. It only says who is registered to vote.
• Most voter registration forms ask for the person's Social Security number and an email address.
  
• The privacy of voter registration records varies from state to state. Some states sell registration records to political parties or commercial data vendors.  Most people don't realize this, assuming the data is used for activities directly related to the election process such as mailing absentee ballots.

1. The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee published in 1960.
2. The play "Romeo and Juliet" written by Shakespeare a long time ago.
3. The motion picture "Modern Times" with Charlie Chaplin published in 1936.
4. A home "how to" video I made showing proper technique for cooking an omelot.
5. The process for creating Coca-Cola beverage.
6. A photograph I took of the asphalt pavement in front of my house.
7. A color crayon drawing made by your nephew in pre-school.
8. A list of the names of the colors of the rainbow.
9. The Telephone Book published by Pacific Bell.
10. A list of anagrams of the word "superstitious".
11. A table of the value of the mathematical constant pi with one thousand decimal places.
12. A photograph of a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle you assembled yourself.
13. A video you made of the performers at a rock concert.
14. A Sears catalog from 1910.
15. The label from a bottle of Perrier water.
16. A photograph of the Andromeda galaxy taken by the Hubble telescope and posted on the NASA web site. (tricky)

1. Share your copy of Surfer magazine among 12 of your friends so they can read an article you liked.
2. Make 12 photocopies of the magazine and mail them to friends who do not live nearby.
3. Make 12 photocopies of the one article and mail it to friends who do not live nearby.
4. Scan the article to create a digital copy and email it to 12 friends.

1. A college professor clips out a newspaper article and posts it on the bulletin board outside her office door for any member of the campus community to read.
2. A college professor makes 30 photocopies of a newspaper article from that day's paper and distributes it to students in class to read and discuss.
3. A college professor scans a newspaper article and posts it on her Web page.

1. You invite 3 friends over to your house to watch a DVD movie you rented on your large screen display.
2. You rent a DVD movie and an LCD projector and display the movie on the blank wall next to a parking lot in downtown SLO.
3. You buy a copy of a documentary movie that reveals the tragedy of child soldiers in Uganda.  You invite the public to attend a showing of the movie at the city library and charge $2 admission.  You give all the revenue to a charitable organization trying to stop the war in Uganda.
   

1. You purchase a music CD recording of your favorite artist performing in concert.  You decide the applause is annoying so you use a music editing program to create an MP3 with the applause removed.
2. You post your creation (the edited version) on the web at a music file sharing site for others to listen to.

1. Your sister got married and is having a baby.  She found an article on how to choose  a name for your new child in a parenting magazine.  She makes photocopies for all her friends and family and mails it to them with a request for advice.
2. Your sister found a list of the 100 most popular baby names on the BabyNames.com web site.  She posts the list publicly on her facebook page and asks all her friends to pick their favorite name.  BabyNames.com contains this notice:  "All site content © 1996-2010 BabyNames.com LLC - All Rights Reserved"
3. Your sister found this list of most common first names at www.namestatistics.com.  The site obtained the raw data from the U.S. Census and put it into a database and displayed it by frequency.  There is no copyright notice on the site. She copies this list on posts it on her public facebook page. (tricky)
   

1. You decide to create an online version of the "name that tune" television show.  You copy the first five seconds of music from a large number of popular songs.  You put the clips on a web site where people listen to a randomly chosen clip and try to guess the name of the song. 
2. You rent a video with past episodes of "Name that Tune" television show, copy several of the shows and post them on your web site.  You don't charge a fee to view them.

1. A photograph of Michelle Obama you take from a magazine, scan it, and modify it with a graphics editing program to make it look like a superhero, and post it on your web site. (tricky)
2. A photograph of Michelle Obama you take from a magazine, scan it, and post a small "thumbnail" image with a reference to the original.
3. A photograph you take yourself of Michelle Obama and post it on your web site.
4. You copy this photograph of Michelle Obama from the White House web site and post it on your public Facebook page.(tricky)
   

A national political activist organization created a forum on its Web site where people were encouraged to post individual newpaper articles relevant to political issues of concern to the group.  Several articles were reproduced from major newspapers without permission each day.  Thousands of people visited the site on a daily basis.  Participants added comments to the forum, and debate and discussion of the articles continued. Two newspapers sued the organization arguing that posting the articles violated their copyrights. 

1. Analyze the case, mentioning how the fair-use guidelines apply.  Decide who you think should win the case and briefly justify your position.
2. Imagine a similar but different situation.  Imagine the organization was a group of only twenty people from Cambria and they posted one article every week.  Would this change the way the fair-use guidelines apply? How?  Would you rule the same way in the case?  Explain why.