Hypothetical Question with Sample Answer In which of the following situations would a court likely hold Maruta liable for copyright infringement?

1 At the library, Maruta photocopies ten pages from a scholarly journal relating to a topic on which she is writing a term paper.

2 Maruta makes leather handbags and sells them in her small shop. She advertises her handbags as “Vutton handbags,”

hoping that customers might mistakenly assume that they were made by Vuitton, the well-known maker of high- quality luggage and handbags.

3 Maruta owns a video store. She purchases one copy of several popular movie DVDs from various distributors. Then, using blank DVDs, she burns copies of the movies to rent or sell to her customers.

4 Maruta teaches Latin American history at a small university.

She has a digital video recorder and frequently records television programs relating to Latin America and puts them on DVDs. She then takes the DVDs to her classroom so that her students can watch them.

—For a sample answer to Question 5–2, go to Appendix E at the end of this text.