Q15

[elanaminkoff]

Can someone pleas explain what makes d correct? From what I understood of this passage, the Tangible object theory, requires actual objects in order to be granted copyrights. The author disagrees with this (paragraph 3) but this question, unlike the previous question seems to be asking about the passage, not the author or main point, and to me the main focus of the passage was TO. D directly contradicts TO, so I am very confused...

[ohthatpatrick]

I have good news and bad news.

Good news: you're not crazy

Bad news: you may have expended a lot of energy justifying the wrong answer choice.

The answer to Q15 is (A).

When I see "according to the passage", I think "I need to find what sentence or two in the passage uses the keywords in the question stem --- the correct answer will paraphrase that".

Here I'd be looking for the bundle of keywords contained in "the theory that copyright ... depends on the claim".

Line 3-5 gives me "... logical extensions of the right to own concrete, tangible objects. This view depends on the claim that ..."

Seems like a great match!

It depends on the claim that every copyrightable work can be manifested in some physical form.

Scan the answer choices looking for the safest paraphrase of that.

(A) Very close match. Can we accept that "copyrightable" = "entitled to intellectual-property protection"? Seems pretty safe.

(B) "only" is extreme and contradicted by line 13.

(C) comes from lines 45-47, which are nowhere near the keywords from this question stem.

(D) This is the opposite of "every work can be manifested tangibly".

(E) This comes from line 12, but doesn't connect to the keywords.

The correct answer is (A).

[elanaminkoff]

thank you so much. After driving myself crazy trying to figure out how on earth D could possibly be right and the shock that no one had yet posted this question I FINALLY realized i had been looking at the wrong answer, and in fact D wasn't correct. I thought I had deleted this post after realizing that but evidently I failed to do so. Thanks for the explanation though!

[xsksquid]

Thanks for the explanation. I still don't understand why E is wrong. The question asks for a claim that the theory depends on, in other words, a necessary condition for the "logical extensions" theory. In my understanding E has to be true--If the owner of an IP item may not legally destroy it, then the theory doesn't hold.

So why is E not the answer? Thanks

[danielsjang]

B is correct because the Q&A verbatim follows the text, whereas (E) isn't copied verbatim.
The question asks for "...depends on the claim that" which is shown in line 5 "...depends on the claim that every copyrightable work can be manifested in some physical form" which is what (A).
(E) is shown in line 7 through 12, but the wording is "it also accepts the premise that...", which isn't what the question asked verbatim (which used "depends")