PrepTest 123, Section 4, Question 21
The World Wide Web, a network of electronically(464 more words not shown)
The author's discussion of telephone(5 more words not shown)
- Acompare and contrast(11 more words not shown)
- Bprovide an analogy(15 more words not shown)
- Cshow that the(11 more words not shown)
- Dillustrate the basic(13 more words not shown)
- Eshow that telephone(7 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The discussion moves from a copyright question on the web to a familiar situation: someone records an outgoing message, and someone else shares the phone number.
What we’re looking for
My first description is an analogy—use one situation to help us understand another. Now we need to explain how that comparison helps with the copyright argument.
Working the answers
- A
We learn how the answering machine and the shared number work, but we aren't given legal problems with answering machines to compare with those of the web.
- B
The analogy supports one side: the writer's defense of linking to information its owner has made available. It doesn't also illustrate the owners' argument for stronger copyright protection.
- C
No earlier legal disputes about answering machines are described, so the example doesn't establish that the web's legal problems have arisen before.
- DCorrect
The principle is that the person making material available controls its distribution, while someone supplying a route to it merely facilitates access. Recording the message versus sharing the number makes that distinction concrete for the copyright argument.
- E
The point isn't that telephone use creates copyright concerns; it's that an ordinary telephone example helps explain control of access.
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