PrepTest 115, Section 3, Question 26
The following passage was written in the mid-1990s.(454 more words not shown)
The discussion in the second(11 more words not shown)
- Ahow copyright infringement(10 more words not shown)
- Bwhy current Canadian(8 more words not shown)
- Chow the Internet(12 more words not shown)
- Dwhy copyright experts(7 more words not shown)
- Ehow unauthorized reproductions(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The second paragraph gives us the background: what digitalization does and what the existing Canadian law prohibits. But background is a broad description. The important connection is that electronic signals may not count as the “material” reproduction the law covers. That mismatch explains why the old rule doesn't neatly handle the new technology.
Working the answers
- A
No penalties are described. Explaining what the law prohibits isn't explaining how an offender is punished.
- BCorrect
The paragraph identifies the uncertainty about whether digitalization “constitutes a material reproduction.” That is why applying the existing prohibition is difficult. The definition of digitalization serves this legal explanation.
- C
The first paragraph introduces copyright holders looking for protection. The second focuses on the gap in the existing rule, not on the steps those holders have taken to find new protection.
- D
The specific proposal comes in the third paragraph. The second describes the current mismatch; it doesn't yet explain or defend the experts' proposed response.
- E
Electronic transmission is described, but explaining how it happens isn't the paragraph's primary job. That technical description helps explain why the law's existing category is uncertain.
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