Are multiple choice questions copyrightable?
<p>Say there is a company that has published 'sets' (of 30 questions for example) of multiple choice questions that are copyright protected. The questions may include graphs and other diagrams.</p>

<p>If you take these questions and display them in a different format, for example on a payed online platform where the order of these is completely randomized and has nothing to do with these 'sets' and additionally there are 'self-written' explanations (not related to the published 'sets') to the answers of the multiple choice questions then:</p>

<ol>
<li>is this copyright infringement?</li>
<li>are the 'sets' copyrighted or only the individual questions?</li>
<li>would changing values in the questions change the 'copyright'?</li>
<li>does the fact that the randomized display of questions on the platform has nothing to do with the 'sets' change anything?</li>
</ol>

<p>thanks </p>

<p>"Generally speaking, am I prohibited from commercially exploiting copyrighted material without authorisation" - yes.</p>

<p>I'm not aware of any exceptions based on the re-ordering of parts (whole sentences, paragraphs, questions and answers) of the copyrighted material.</p>

<p>If you want to set up that kind of business then invest in some time with a copyright lawyer. Or make an effort to re-express the questions and answers such that they are not copyright infringing.</p>

<h2>Yes</h2>

<p>Anything that meets the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality" rel="nofollow noreferrer">threshold of originality</a> has copyright. A coherent and complete question, whatever it’s form, does that.</p>

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