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Below are sample questions from the Intellectual Property Quiz designed for Academy authors and editors. The basic module covers basic copyright issues and the advanced module explores situations actually encountered in Academy publishing and CME courses. How well would you do?

1. Which of the following items is considered copyright protected?
a) An Academy Committee or Council agenda book
b) The new Academy/Association logo and the Academy seal
c) A handout written by a faculty member for an Orthopaedic Learning Center course
d) An article on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Web site

2. In general, who owns the copyright for works created by an employee—the employee or the employer?
a) The employer, but only if there is a contract with the employee
b) The employer, whether or not there is a contract stating the employer owns work(s) created by the employee
c) The employee, because he or she created the work
d) It depends on the state in which the work was created

3. By signing a standard AAOS Assignment of Rights Form for a chapter you submit for a publication, you give the Academy:
a) Full ownership of the submitted material, including all tables and illustrations
b) Full ownership of the written words, but not any tables or illustrations
c) One-time authorization to use the material in the chapter or presentation
d) Time-limited authorization to use the material for a period of 5 years, after which time you may reuse it without Academy permission

4. You are preparing to submit the following materials for an Academy publication: the manuscript, radio-graphs of one of your patients from a previously published article, a table you created that summarizes data from 12 studies, and a short video program for the online component of the book. The video program includes surgical footage you shot as well as footage showing the same mechanism of injury of an athlete as shown on a nationally televised game.

Before you send the package to the Academy, which of the following must you document?
a) A complete reference for the journal article in which the radiographs previously appeared
b) The name of the network and date of the broadcast of the game
c) Complete references for the studies in the table
d) All of the above

5. You are asked to present a lecture at the Orthopaedic Learning Center (OLC) on a topic that you have not presented on in 4 years. Your review of the literature indicates that use of a new prosthesis currently is favored in published studies. Your presentation does not contain any slides showing radiographs of a patient with this prosthesis, but your partner has several cases in the file so you ask her if you can use her slides.

You establish that your partner owns the copyright to the slides and you submit the presentation with the new slides to the Academy prior to the OLC course. The five slides from your partner should be marked in what way?
a) With the AAOS copyright
b) With a courtesy line acknowledging your partner
c) With nothing, since the slides are radiographs of an anonymous patient
d) With a copyright from your institution



Answers: 1.c; 2.b; 3.a; 4.d; 5.b

AAOS Now
December 2009 Issue
http://www.aaos.org/news/aaosnow/dec09/cover1-1.asp

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