Which of the following statements is false?
2023
Which of the following statements is false?
Answer: E. None of the above — CONCEPTCopyright protects original expression rather than bare ideas, facts, or common knowledge. A protected dramatic or choreographic work must be original…
- A.
That great idea you told your friend about the other day cannot be protected by copyright.
- B.
Commonly known information that is considered common property and has no known authorship cannot be protected by copyright.
- C.
A choreographic work, whether original or not, is not subject to copyright protection unless it has been videotaped or notated.
- D.
More than one of the above
- E.
None of the above
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Correct answer: E
CONCEPT
Copyright protects original expression rather than bare ideas, facts, or common knowledge.
A protected dramatic or choreographic work must be original and fixed in a material form; neither requirement replaces the other.
APPLICATION
A conversational idea is not protected merely because it was shared; copyright protects the particular original expression of an idea.
Commonly known information with no identifiable original authorship is not itself copyrightable expression.
In the choreography statement, “unless” makes recording or notation a necessary fixation condition; it does not say fixation is sufficient. A non-original work can still lack protection for want of originality, while an original choreography also needs fixation.
The conversational-idea, common-information, and choreography statements are each consistent with the governing copyright principles, so no substantive statement is the requested false statement.
CONTRAST
“More than one of the above” would require at least two substantive statements to be false, which the independent value-based checks do not produce.
“None of the above” represents the zero-false-statement result obtained from those checks.
CROSS-CHECK
India’s Copyright Act protects original dramatic works, and its definition of dramatic work includes fixed choreography. Separately, the BPSC final answer key for General Studies & Entrepreneurship, Series A, Question 67 assigns answer E, confirming “None of the above.”
The answer is “None of the above.”