CTVA 100 Exam 2 (chapter 5)
questions and answers graded A+
Chapter 5 - correct answer ✔✔
1. The Radio Act of 1912 and the event that spurred its creation - correct answer ✔✔1st Radio
Legislation, required all wireless stations to obtain licenses, SOS distress call made it official
2. Which companies formed RCA - correct answer ✔✔Founded by GE, patents from the Navy,
AT&T, GE and American Marconi
3. First company to sell ads on the radio - correct answer ✔✔AT&T, Started WEAF (eventually
WNBC) in New York
4. The Radio Act of 1927 - correct answer ✔✔Stated that stations could only license their
channels as long as they operated to serve the "public interest, convenience, or necessity". Led
to creation of FCC
5. Transistor radios, what they are and what they did for Americans - correct answer ✔✔Small
electrical devices that could receive and amplify radio signals, Made radio portable and able to
go where TV could not
6. Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, what it created - correct answer ✔✔Created the funding
authority for public broadcasting.
Reintegrated the idea that mass mediums have a SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY of educating the
public.
7. How radio was affected by WWI - correct answer ✔✔Navy took over radio in 1917
, Corporate heads and government leaders made sure radio served American interests.
8. In which state the first commercial broadcasting station was created in 1920 (and call letters)
- correct answer ✔✔Pennsylvania
Copyright Lecture - correct answer ✔✔
1. The democratic protections copyright policy was originally meant to embody (4) - correct
answer ✔✔A.All copyrighted works would enter public domain after copyright term expires
B."fair use" would allow consumers limited copying for educational purposes OR research
C.after the "first sale" of copyrighted item, consumers could do whatever they wanted EXCEPT
RESELL.
D.Copyright protects specific expression of ideas but NOT the IDEA themselves.
2. Year the first copyright law was passed - correct answer ✔✔1783
3. Current copyright policy (as of 1998) - correct answer ✔✔originally gave author control from
14 years but now extended to life of author PLUS 70 years
4. Fair use - correct answer ✔✔•Defense against copyright infringement.
•Includes criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, research.
•No permission from copyright owner.
5. Creative Commons licenses, what they do - correct answer ✔✔•Allows creators to
communicate which rights they reserve
•Which rights they waive
•"some rights reserved" vs "all rights reserved.
questions and answers graded A+
Chapter 5 - correct answer ✔✔
1. The Radio Act of 1912 and the event that spurred its creation - correct answer ✔✔1st Radio
Legislation, required all wireless stations to obtain licenses, SOS distress call made it official
2. Which companies formed RCA - correct answer ✔✔Founded by GE, patents from the Navy,
AT&T, GE and American Marconi
3. First company to sell ads on the radio - correct answer ✔✔AT&T, Started WEAF (eventually
WNBC) in New York
4. The Radio Act of 1927 - correct answer ✔✔Stated that stations could only license their
channels as long as they operated to serve the "public interest, convenience, or necessity". Led
to creation of FCC
5. Transistor radios, what they are and what they did for Americans - correct answer ✔✔Small
electrical devices that could receive and amplify radio signals, Made radio portable and able to
go where TV could not
6. Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, what it created - correct answer ✔✔Created the funding
authority for public broadcasting.
Reintegrated the idea that mass mediums have a SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY of educating the
public.
7. How radio was affected by WWI - correct answer ✔✔Navy took over radio in 1917
, Corporate heads and government leaders made sure radio served American interests.
8. In which state the first commercial broadcasting station was created in 1920 (and call letters)
- correct answer ✔✔Pennsylvania
Copyright Lecture - correct answer ✔✔
1. The democratic protections copyright policy was originally meant to embody (4) - correct
answer ✔✔A.All copyrighted works would enter public domain after copyright term expires
B."fair use" would allow consumers limited copying for educational purposes OR research
C.after the "first sale" of copyrighted item, consumers could do whatever they wanted EXCEPT
RESELL.
D.Copyright protects specific expression of ideas but NOT the IDEA themselves.
2. Year the first copyright law was passed - correct answer ✔✔1783
3. Current copyright policy (as of 1998) - correct answer ✔✔originally gave author control from
14 years but now extended to life of author PLUS 70 years
4. Fair use - correct answer ✔✔•Defense against copyright infringement.
•Includes criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, research.
•No permission from copyright owner.
5. Creative Commons licenses, what they do - correct answer ✔✔•Allows creators to
communicate which rights they reserve
•Which rights they waive
•"some rights reserved" vs "all rights reserved.
