Reading ComprehensionDifficulty: Hard

PT115 S3 P4 Q27 Explanation

Canadian Copyrights and Digitialization

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Users of the Internet—the worldwide network of interconnected computer systems—envision it as a way for people to have free access to information via their personal computers. Most Internet communication consists of sending electronic mail or exchanging ideas on electronic bulletin boards; however, a growing number of transmissions are of copyrighted works—books, photographs, copyright holders look for ways to protect their material from unauthorized and uncompensated distribution.

Copyright experts say that Canadian copyright law, which was revised in 1987 to cover works such as choreography and photography, has not kept pace with technology—specifically with digitalization, the conversion of data into a series of digits that are transmitted as electronic signals over computer networks. Digitalization makes it possible to create clear whether digitalization constitutes a material reproduction—and so unauthorized digitalization is not yet technically a crime.

Some experts propose simply adding unauthorized digitalization to the list of activities proscribed under current law, to make it clear that copyright holders own electronic reproduction rights just as they own rights to other types of reproduction. But criminalizing digitalization raises a host of questions. For example, given that digitalization allows the the publishing community, which is accustomed to treating it as a commodity owned by its creator.

What this question is testing

Inference

Your task

Find what must be true based on what the passage or stimulus states.

Common trap

Answers that are plausible or likely but not actually guaranteed by the text.

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Keep only the choice the statements fully support — eliminate anything that requires an extra assumption.

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The question
27.

The passage supports each of the following

Answer choices

  1. Trap2% picked this

    It is unlikely that every instance of digitalization could be detected under a copyright law

  2. Trap9% picked this

    Criminalizing unauthorized digitalization appears to be consistent with the publishing community’s treatment of information as

  3. Correct60% picked this

    When copyright law is revised to cover digitalization, the revised law will include a prohibition on making copies from an unauthorized

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

    Skill tested: Inference · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.

  4. Trap22% picked this

    The number of instances of unauthorized digitalization would likely rise if digitalization technology were made

  5. Trap7% picked this

    Under current law, many academics are allowed to make copies of copyrighted works as long as they are

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