Round 1: general IP knowledge
5 point bonus for the correct answer.
Which of the following things has not been registered as a trademark?
下列何者未被註冊為商標？
a) the word ‘D’oh’ said by Homer Simpson 辛普森家庭中荷馬辛普森的口頭禪「D’oh」
b) the colour orange 橘色
c) the name ‘Madonna’ 「Madonna」這個名字
d) the phrase ‘Freedom of expression’ 「Freedom of expression (言論自由)」這個詞
How long did copyright last under the first British copyright law of 1710?
a) 8 years after publication
b) 28 years after publication
c) 48 years after publication
d) until the author died
A well-known urban legend suggests that AOL Time Warner owns the copyright to the song ‘Happy Birthday to You’ but is this true or false?
傳言道，知名的「生日快樂歌」其著作財產權為 AOL 時代華納所有，是真的嗎？
(Ture / False)
Name the international trade-agreement which made Intellectual Property part of the World Intellectual Property Organization, imposing North-American copyright standards on all member-states of the World Trade Organisation:
a) TRIPS
b) GATT
c) NAFTA
d) BAFTA
Approximately how many pairs of counterfeit Nike trainers were seized by customs at Hamburg harbour in autumn 2006?
2006 年秋季，德國漢堡海港海關大概抓到了多少 Nike 鞋仿冒品？
a) 10,000
b) 100,000
c) one million
d) none
Approximately how long would it take a typical Nike factory worker in
Indonesia to earn enough to buy a pair of Nike Air Classic trainers at UK
high street prices?
一個印度 Nike 工廠的工人，大概要工作多久才買得起英國高級商店區的一雙 Nike Air Classic 鞋？
a) one week
b) four weeks
c) four months
d) one year
What is the name for the pirate flag, usually featuring a skull-and-crossbones
motif?
一般常見、上面繪有骷髏與交叉骨頭的海盜旗，其名稱是？
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In which month is ‘International Talk Like a Pirate Day’?
每年的「國際海盜口吻日」在哪個月？
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Which one of the following was never a pirate?
a) Francis Drake
b) Blackbeard
c) Anne Bonny
d) Dmitry Sklyarov
What is the name of the famous online filesharing operation raided by Swedish police in 2006 after political pressure from the United States?
a) The Pirate Bay
b) The Pirate Ship
c) The Pirate Share
d) The Pirate Treasure
The very first Pirate Party was founded in January 2006. As a political party, its proposals include reform of copyright and patent legislation and a stronger right to privacy, but in which country does it campaign?
a) China
b) Sweden
c) France
d) the UK
Round 2: PIRATES AND PIRACY
The first rock bootleg album came out in 1969 under the name The Great White Wonder. Some of the material was later officially released as The Basement Tapes. But who was the singer?
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Which one of the following bands does not permit fans to record their live performances?
a) Pink Floyd
b) Badly Drawn Boy
c) Radiohead
d) Colonel Les Claypole’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
Back in the 80´s the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) launched a campaign against copyright infringement due to the rise in popularity of cassette recorders. The BPI feared that home taping would cause a decline in record sales. The slogan of the campaign was:
英國唱片協會 (BPI) 在 80 年代因卡式錄音機盛行而舉辦反盜版活動，他們擔心家庭錄音行為會導致唱片銷售量下滑。請問當時活動的口號是：
a) Copying is crime
b) If you love music, don’t steal it
c) Home taping is killing music
d) Copying that Duran Duran record will help terrorists to torture kittens and ten years from now you’re going to pretend you never liked them anyway.
Name the former lyricist of the band The Grateful Dead who wrote ‘A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace’:
a) Jack Bauer
b) Jerry Garcia
c) Julian Casablancas
d) John Perry Barlow
Round 3: MUSIC PART ONE
Music file-sharing over the internet became widely popular with the launch of Napster in June 1999. Which American heavy metal band was the first to file a lawsuit against the service offered by Napster?
1999 年 6 月 Napster 開張後，線上分享音樂蔚為風潮。首先對 Napster 提出法律行動的是哪個美國重金屬樂團？
a) Van Halen
b) Metallica
c) Slayer
Luther Blissett was the collective identity of the authors of the novel ‘Q’, a thriller set in the sixteenth century and published under a copyleft licence in 1999. What country did the collective Luther Blissett hail from?
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Of which classic of childrens literature, whose villain is a pirate captain, was the copyright held by the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children?
有部書中反派為海盜的兒童文學名著，其著作財產權屬於大歐蒙街兒童醫院。請問這部作品的名字是？
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A wide-spread phenomenon on the internet is a kind of fan-fiction featuring famous movie and TV characters such as Spock and Captain Kirk of Star Trek in an often homo-erotic plot. What is this genre called?
網路上的同人作品 (由愛好者自行依據相同人物設定所衍生的作品) 經常將電影、電視影集的著名角色 (例如星艦迷航記的寇克艦長與史巴克) 描繪為同性戀。這類的作品稱為？
a) splash fiction
b) trash fiction
c) slash fiction
d) cash-in fiction
Round 4: LITERATURE
The collective author Luther Blissett is named after a footballer who played for Watford and A.C. Milan. For which country did the original Luther Blissett nicknamed ‘Luther Missit’ - win 19 international caps?
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Which English football league team are nicknamed ‘The Pirates’?
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Which is the only major European football club to play without a corporate sponsor’s logo on their shirts?
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Round 5: FOOTBALL
The famous German Reinheitsgebot or ‘purity law’ for beer came into force in which year?
a) 1416
b) 1516
c) 1616
d) 1939
Answer:
What are the only three ingredients permitted in German beer under the original Reinheitsgebot?
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(one point each - 3 total)
Two companies are in dispute over the rights to use the trademark ‘Budweiser’ for beer. One is based in St. Louis, Missouri. What is the usual English name for the Czech city where the other is based?
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Name the beer brand who was the very first trademark to be registered in the UK.
The fast food chain McDonald’s has taken legal action against a restaurant in Illinois opened fifty years ago by a man named Ronald McDonald - true or false?
連鎖速食店麥當勞對 50 年前在伊利諾州開張、由名為 Ronald McDonald 的人開的餐廳採取法律行動，真的嗎？
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A Danish man called Allan Pedersen was sued by the Scottish whisky company MacAllan’s after he called his sausage stand ‘McAllan’ - true or false?
丹麥人 Allan Pedersen 在將其香腸命名為「McAllan」後被蘇格蘭威士忌公司 MacAllan's 提告，真的嗎？
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Round 6: FOOD AND DRINK
Each of the following four pieces of music illegally combines two existing tracks by other artists to make a ‘mashup’ or ‘bootleg’. For one point each, can you name the original artists? [mp3s of the four pieces of music can be downloaded from www.freebeer.org]
(1 point for each artist - 8 in total)
Round 7: MUSIC PART two
Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon rose to fame with an art piece in which he slowed down a well-known Alfred Hitchcock film so that it lasted for 24 hours, creating what under copyright law is an illegal derivative work. But what was the name of the film?
a) Phsycho
b) The man who knew to much
c) The Birds
d) Vertigo
Which American artist was successfully sued for collaging a magazine page onto one of his paintings by the photographer of a car advert visible on the page he used?
a) Andy Warhol
b) Robert Rauschenberg
c) Jasper Johns
d) Jeff Koons
French artist Yves Klein patented his ‘International Klein Blue’ paint - true or false?
法國藝術家 Yves Klein 取得了他稱為「國際克萊藍」色彩的專利，真的嗎？
Answer:
Which one of these things is it illegal to copy without permission in the UK?
下列何者目前 (在英國的法律下) 未經允許隨意重製為犯法？
a) Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting the Mona Lisa
b) the Smiley face logo
c) Frans Hals’s painting The Laughing Cavalier
d) the song The Laughing Policeman
Round 8: ART AND FILM
Which of the following films is not in the public domain?
a) Frankenstein
b) King Kong vs. Godzilla
c) Night of the Living Dead
d) Pretty Woman
The American lobbyist Jack Valenti was employed by the film industry to campaign against the introduction of home video recorders. He said that the effect of the video cassette on the American film producer and the American public would be what?
a) what the iceberg was to the Titanic
b) what the wooden horse was to the Trojans
c) what Kryptonite is to Superman
d) what the Boston Strangler was to the woman home alone
Round 8: ART AND FILM
Brian Joseph Burton, better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is an American producer who came to prominence in 2004 when he released The Grey Album. Which two records by other artists did he mix together to make The Grey Album?
Answer:
How much money did Danger Mouse make from sales of The Grey Album?
a) nothing
b) £1,000
c) £10,000
d) £100,000
The UK recently decided to keep the copyright term for sound recordings at 50 years, rather than extending it to 95 years as proposed by Sir Cliff Richard among others. When will the copyright now expire on both Sir Cliff’s Summer Holiday, and the first Beatles LP?
英國最近決定要維持著作財產權保護年限為 50 年，而未通過由 Cliff Richard 爵士為首提出的 95 年案。因此，Cliff Richard 爵士所拍攝的「Summer Holiday」與披頭四的首張單曲作品，著作財產權保護年限將於何時到期？
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In 1994, Fantasy Records sued former Creedence Clearwater Revival singer John Fogerty for plagiarism Whose work did they accuse him of stealing?
a) The Beatles
b) Cliff Richard
c) Boyzone
d) his own
Round 9: MUSIC PART THREE
Name the Brazilian Minister of Culture and Tropicalia musician who released a CD under a Creative Commons licence in 2004.
a) Gilberto Gil
b) Carlos Santana
c) Frank Zappa
d) Gal Costa
How long does copyright typically last under current international law?
以目前的國際法來說，著作財產權通常會維持到何時？
a) 28 years after publication
b) 70 years after publication
c) 28 years after the author dies
d) 70 years after the author dies
About what percentage of human genes are now the subject of US patents?
已經有多少百分比的人類基因取得了美國專利？
a) none
b) 20%
c) 50%
d) 100%
In which context did a representative of the Motion Picture Association of America say ‘We are not going for peoples sympathy - we just want people to understand the consequences of piracy on the internet’?
在什麼情境下，美國電影協會說了「我們不是要人認同，只是要大眾明白在網路上盜版的後果」？
a) at a hearing in the US Congress in July 2004 on intellectual property protection 在美國國會於 2004 年 7 月舉辦的保護智慧財產權公聽會後
b) in a public statement after the successful takedown of the file-sharing site thepiratebay.org 在成功使檔案分享網站 thepiratebay.org 關站後的公開聲明
c) after suing a 67-year-old grandfather for $600,000 because his 12-year-old grandson downloaded four feature films from a file-sharing site 在因為一個 12 歲兒童於檔案分享網站上下載 4 部院線片、所以對其 67 歲祖父提出 60 萬美元告訴之後。
d) at the launch of their campaign ‘You can click, but you can’t hide’ 在發動「You can click, but you can’t hide」活動後
Round 10: general IP knowledge 2
Who coined the term ‘commons-based peer-production’ in an influential book analysing economic transformations in the 21st Century and the emergence of collaborative models for cultural production:
a) Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations
b) Michel Houellebecq in The Possibility of an Island
c) Naomi Klein in No Logo
d) Yochai Benkler in The Wealth of Networks
What is the first name of the Finnish programmer after whom the free/open-source operating system Linux is named?
自由軟體作業系統 Linux 是以哪個芬蘭程式設計師的名字命名的？請說出他名字的第一個字。
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The legendary programmer Richard Stallman famously said that free software is not ‘free as in free beer’ but ‘free as in free…’ what?
傳奇程式設計師 Richard Stallman 談論自由軟體時常說道，自由軟體並非「free as in free beer」，而是「free as in free…」什麼？
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