Deck 9: Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy

Question 1

The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act applies to most,but not all,domain name registrations of trademarks.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The manufacture,import,sale,and distribution of devices or services for the circumvention of encryption software is prohibited.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Cybersquatting occurs when key words are inserted into a Web site's keywords coding to tell Internet browsers specific information about a Web page.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Using another's trademark in a meta tag does not normally constitute trademark infringement,even if it is done without the owner's permission.

Question 5

File-sharing software can be used to download others' copyrighted property without liability for any infringement.

Question 6

When you download an application on your smartphone,you are typically entering into a license agreement.

Question 7

The law restricts the "fair use" of methods for bypassing encryption software for noncommercial purposes.

Question 8

Downloading music into a computer's random access memory,or RAM,is not copyright infringement,even if it is done without authorization.

Question 9

Cybersquatting is illegal only if a domain name is identical to the trademark of another,not if the name is merely confusingly similar.

Question 10

An Internet service provider is liable for any act of copyright infringement by its customer.

Question 11

No federal court has held that digitally sampling a copyrighted sound recording of any length constitutes copyright infringement.

Question 12

Federal law permits the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail and does not prohibit spamming activities.

Question 13

Much of the material on the Internet,including software and database information,is not copyrighted.

Question 14

In an attempt to combat spam,thirty-seven states have enacted laws that prohibit or regulate its use.

Question 15

Using a domain name that is identical or similar to the trademark of a competitor represents an attempt to profit from the competitor's goodwill.

Question 16

In some states,an unsolicited e-mail must include a toll-free phone number that the recipient can use to ask the sender to send no more unsolicited e-mail.

Question 17

"Bad faith intent" is too subjective to be an element of a cause of action under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.

Question 18

A claim of trademark dilution requires proof that consumers are likely to be confused by a connection between the unauthorized use and the mark.

Question 19

Criminal liability for the piracy of copyrighted materials extends only to persons who exchanged unauthorized copies for profit.

Question 20

Penalties exist for anyone who circumvents encryption software or other technological antipiracy protection.

Question 21

Social media users can post trademarked images or copyrighted materials without infringing the owners' rights,even if it is done without permission.

Question 22

Broadband,Inc. ,an Internet service provider,supplies information to the Federal Trade Commission concerning possible unfair or deceptive ads originating in a foreign jurisdiction.Under federal law,Broadband is

A)immune from liability.
B)subject to liability if the information is false.
C)subject to liability if the ads were sent through B's service.
D)subject to liability in the foreign jurisdiction,but not in the United States.

Question 23

Fact Pattern 9-1​
Sound Financials Corporation sends daily e-mail ads to its previous customers and those who have opted to receive the notices.Instable Investments,Inc. ,sends e-mail ads to any e-mail address that Instable can find on the Web or otherwise generate.
Refer to Fact Pattern 9-1.In those states with antispam laws,federal law

A)prohibits or regulates the use of spam.
B)requires the use of spam by business entities.
C)bans the use of spam altogether.
D)preempts the application of state law to commercial e-mail with certain exceptions.

Question 24

An internal company network can better protect the company's trade secrets.

Question 25

Fact Pattern 9-1​
Sound Financials Corporation sends daily e-mail ads to its previous customers and those who have opted to receive the notices.Instable Investments,Inc. ,sends e-mail ads to any e-mail address that Instable can find on the Web or otherwise generate.
Refer to Fact Pattern 9-1.Sound Financials and Instable Investments are subject to the laws of the states in which they are located and do business.Thirty-seven states

A)prohibit or regulates the use of spam.
B)require the use of spam by business entities.
C)ban the use of spam altogether.
D)preempt the application of state law to commercial e-mail.

Question 26

Federal law permits the intentional interception of any wire,oral,or electronic communication.

Question 27

Federal law prevents a provider of communication services-such as a cell phone company-from divulging private communications to certain entities and individuals.

Question 28

To maintain a suit for the invasion of privacy,a person must have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the particular situation.

Question 29

An employer may have a right to terminate a person based on his or her violation of the employer's social media policy.

Question 30

Cyber torts are torts that arise from online conduct.

Question 31

Online defamation is wrongfully hurting a person's reputation by communicating false statements about that person to others online.

Question 32

Federal wiretapping law covers electronic forms of communication.

Question 33

Tech Outsourcing,Inc. ,registers a domain name that is the same as,or confusingly similar to,the trademark of Tech Resourcing Corporation and then offers to sell the domain name back to Tech Resourcing.This is

A)cybersquatting.
B)typosquatting.
C)trademark infringement.
D)trademark dilution.

Question 34

Online conduct gives rise to only a narrow variety of legal actions.

Question 35

About half of the states have enacted legislation to protect individuals from having to disclose their social media passwords.

Question 36

Social media posts are routinely included in discovery in litigation.

Question 37

A social media post cannot be used to invalidate a settlement agreement.

Question 38

Fact Pattern 9-1​
Sound Financials Corporation sends daily e-mail ads to its previous customers and those who have opted to receive the notices.Instable Investments,Inc. ,sends e-mail ads to any e-mail address that Instable can find on the Web or otherwise generate.
Refer to Fact Pattern 9-1.One of the advertisers-either Sound Financials or Instable Investments-is acting within the bounds of federal law.Federal law permits the sending of

A)unsolicited commercial e-mail.
B)solicited commercial e-mail only.
C)commercial e-mail to randomly generated addresses.
D)commercial e-mail to addresses "harvested" from Web sites through the use of specialized software.

Question 39

Employees' posts on social media may be protected under labor law.

Question 40

Federal law permits the intentional accessing of stored electronic communication even if the accessing is unauthorized.

Question 41

Dana downloads music into her computer's random access memory,or RAM,without authorization.This is

A)copyright infringement.
B)within Dana's rights as a computer user.
C)a basis of liability for the computer maker if it does not act against Dana.
D)none of the choices.

Question 42

Eddie and other users of Facebook and other social networking sites post trademarked images and copyrighted materials on these sites without permission.This is

A)a violation of the intellectual property rights of the owners of the images and materials.
B)within the rights of the users of social networks.
C)a subject for dispute resolution by the providers of the social networks.
D)a "business-extension exception" under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

Question 43

Riley obtains permission from Saga Company to use the firm's game app on Riley's smartphone,tablet,and other mobile device.But Riley does not obtain ownership rights in the app.This is

A)a license.
B)a cookie.
C)cloud computing.
D)a violation of the law.

Question 44

Fact Pattern 9-2​
CallTalk Corporation,a smartphone and phone-time seller,chooses to use and register "calltalk" as its domain name.Later,CallTalk's less successful competitor,CellTalk Company,chooses to use and register "caltalk" (an intentional misspelling of "calltalk")as its domain name.Still later,Call&Talk,Inc. ,uses the domain name "callltalk" (also a deliberate misspelling of "calltalk")without CallTalk's authorization,to sell pornographic phone conversations.
Refer to Fact Pattern 9-2.CallTalk wants to sue Call&Talk for its unauthorized use of the domain name "callltalk" on a theory of trademark dilution.This claim requires proof that

A)none of the choices.
B)consumers are likely to be confused by the names.
C)the products involved are similar.
D)CallTalk ahs registered all variations of the name "calltalk."

Question 45

Web Marketing Inc.buys and sells domain names with the click of a mouse.A domain name can be bought and sold many times.Each change of owner is registered automatically as part of a mass registration.In this environment

A)cybersquatting can flourish.
B)typosquatting occurs unintentionally through clerical misspellings.
C)brands and trademarks are automatically protected from cybersquatters.
D)the Federal Trade Commission can sanction Web Marketing.

Question 46

Fact Pattern 9-2​
CallTalk Corporation,a smartphone and phone-time seller,chooses to use and register "calltalk" as its domain name.Later,CallTalk's less successful competitor,CellTalk Company,chooses to use and register "caltalk" (an intentional misspelling of "calltalk")as its domain name.Still later,Call&Talk,Inc. ,uses the domain name "callltalk" (also a deliberate misspelling of "calltalk")without CallTalk's authorization,to sell pornographic phone conversations.
Refer to Fact Pattern 9-2.By using a domain name similar to CallTalk's,CellTalk is most likely

A)diminishing the quality of CallTalk's mark.
B)making a fair use of CallTalk's mark.
C)licensing the use of CallTalk's mark to itself.
D)engaging in smart competitive conduct.

Question 47

The employees of Eco Engineering Inc.share company-related resources among multiple computers without requiring a central network server.This is

A)digital sampling.
B)cybersquatting.
C)cloud computing.
D)peer-to-peer (P2P)networking.

Question 48

Robert registers a domain name-sweetfriedpotatos.com-that is a misspelling of a popular brand-sweetfriedpotatoes.com.This is

A)cybersquatting.
B)typosquatting.
C)trademark infringement.
D)trademark dilution.

Question 49

BeFriends Corporation uses the trademark of Community Life Inc. ,a social media site,as a meta tag without Community Life's permission.This may be permissible

A)if the appropriating site has nothing to do with the meta tag.
B)if the two sites appear in the same search engine results.
C)if the use constitutes trademark infringement.
D)under no circumstances.

Question 50

Jason transfers select copyrighted music recordings,without the copyright owners' authorization,through his computer and phone to his friends.Jason does not charge his friends for his "service." This is

A)copyright infringement.
B)a license.
C)goodwill.
D)"fair use."

Question 51

Basso includes in his song "Chords" a few seconds of Dante's copyrighted sound recording "Etudes" without permission.Some federal courts have found that such digital sampling is

A)a violation of copyright law.
B)a "fair use" exception to the provisions of the act.
C)not a "fair use" exception to the provisions of the act.
D)all of the choices.

Question 52

Without authorization,Bennie uses the trademark of Cielo Coffee Company to promote cheap,flavorless candy,which is not similar to Cielo's products but diminishes the quality of the coffee company's mark.This is

A)cybersquatting.
B)typosquatting.
C)trademark infringement.
D)trademark dilution.

Question 53

Fact Pattern 9-2​
CallTalk Corporation,a smartphone and phone-time seller,chooses to use and register "calltalk" as its domain name.Later,CallTalk's less successful competitor,CellTalk Company,chooses to use and register "caltalk" (an intentional misspelling of "calltalk")as its domain name.Still later,Call&Talk,Inc. ,uses the domain name "callltalk" (also a deliberate misspelling of "calltalk")without CallTalk's authorization,to sell pornographic phone conversations.
Refer to Fact Pattern 9-2.Call&Talk's use of the domain name "callltalk," without CallTalk's authorization,to sell pornographic phone conversations,is

A)a legitimate marketing technique.
B)a fair use.
C)a license.
D)trademark dilution.

Question 54

BurgerBoy Restaurant Corporation allows its trademark to be used as part of a domain name for BurgerBoyNY,Inc. ,an unaffiliated company.BurgerBoyNY does not obtain ownership rights in the mark.This is

A)trademark infringement.
B)fair use.
C)a license.
D)trademark dilution.

Question 55

To test computer security and conduct encryption research,Tech Solutions Inc.circumvents the encryption software and other technological antipiracy protection of United Business Corporation's software.Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,this is

A)a violation of copyright law.
B)prohibited but not a violation of copyright law.
C)a "fair use" exception to the provisions of the act.
D)permitted for reconsideration every three years.

Question 56

Grain Mill Company brings a suit against Milled Grain Company under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act,alleging that Milled Grain is profiting from a domain name that is confusingly similar to Grain Mill's trademark.If Grain Mill is successful,a recovery may include

A)actual damages and profits in any amount.
B)statutory damages no greater than $1,000.
C)statutory damages no less than $100,000..
D)all of the choices.

Question 57

Far & Wide Corporation uses the trademark of Google Inc.in a meta tag without Google's permission.This is

A)cybersquatting.
B)typosquatting.
C)trademark infringement.
D)trademark dilution.

Question 58

Because of the loss of significant amounts of revenue as a result of unauthorized digital downloads,file-sharing has created problems for

A)the motion picture industry.
B)recording artists and their labels.
C)the companies that distribute file-sharing software.
D)all of the choices.

Question 59

ConnectWeb,Inc. ,operates a subscription-based service that extends the software and storage capabilities of its subscribers.This is

A)dilution.
B)peer-to-peer (P2P)networking.
C)cloud computing.
D)a distributed network.

Question 60

InfoFree Inc.makes and sells devices and services for the circumvention of encryption software.Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,this is

A)a violation of copyright law.
B)prohibited but not a violation of copyright law.
C)a "fair use" exception to the provisions of the act.
D)permitted for reconsideration every three years.

Question 61

Employees of Bodegas & Bistros Inc.(B&B)maintain a password-protected social media page to "vent about work." When B&B learns of the page,the company intimidates the network that operates it into revealing the password.After reviewing the posts,B&B fires the participants.Most likely,this is

A)a violation of the Stored Communications Act.
B)within B&B's rights as an employer.
C)a subject for dispute resolution by B&B's Internet service.
D)a "business-extension exception" under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

Question 62

Interactive Entertainment Corporation markets its products online.Through the use of cookies,Interactive Entertainment and other online marketers can

A)track individuals' Web browsing activities.
B)gain access to competitors' servers.
C)"sweet talk" consumers into buying certain products.
D)attack competitors' Web sites.

Question 63

Keisha is an employee of Leeway Corporation.She uses social media in a way that violates her employer's stated social media policies.Leeway first disciplines its employee and then,after a second transgression,fires her.This is

A)a violation of Keisha's rights as an employee.
B)within Leeway's rights as an employer.
C)a subject for dispute resolution by the social media that Keisha used.
D)a "business-extension exception" under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

Question 64

Global Reach Corporation uses invisible files created on the computers,smartphones,and other mobile devices of visitors to its Web sites to track the users' browsing activities.These files are

A)licenses.
B)cookies.
C)cloud computing.
D)a violation of the law.

Question 65

Sonya and other employees of TransGlobal Inc.maintain a password-protected social media page on which they post comments on work-related issues.The posts range from positive to negative,supporting the page's purpose to "vent about work." When TransGlobal learns of the page,the company intimidates Sonya into revealing the password,and after reviewing the posts,fires her and the other participants.Which federal law discussed in this chapter most likely applies to this situation? Has this law been violated? Discuss.

Question 66

Sales & Revenue,Inc. ,discovers that defamatory statements about its policies and products are being posted in an online forum.TransWeb Inc. ,the Internet service provider whose users are posting the messages,refuses to disclose the identity of the person or persons responsible.Sales & Revenue files a suit against the anonymous users.The plaintiff can obtain from TransWeb the identity of the persons responsible for the defamatory messages by

A)using the authority of the court.
B)gaining unauthorized access to TransWeb's servers.
C)deceiving TransWeb into revealing the posters' identities.
D)no legal or illegal means.

Question 67

Employees,clients,and others with authorization use World Transport Corporation's network around the globe to share computer files.This is

A)an invasion of privacy.
B)trademark and copyright infringement.
C)digital sampling.
D)a distributed network.

Question 68

"Dawn" is a song included in the sound track of "eDay," a movie produced and distributed by FasTrac Corporation.The song features a digital sampling of a few seconds of the guitar solo of one of George Harrison's copyrighted sound recordings without permission.Does this digital sampling constitute copyright infringement on the part of FasTrac? Explain.

Question 69

Mobile Device Company (MDC)discovers that defamatory statements about its policies and products are being posted in an online forum.NuView Inc. ,the Internet service provider whose users are posting the messages,refuses to disclose the identity of the person or persons responsible.MDC should

A)seek to use the authority of the court to obtain the identity from NuView.
B)bring a suit against NuView for publishing the statements.
C)counter the statements with its own posts.
D)post defamatory statements about NuView.

Question 70

Prodigious Profit,LLC,and other companies operate social media Web sites,issue apps for mobile devices,obtain ad revenue from search engines,and sell directly to consumers from other sites.The privacy rights of the users of these products are frequently defined,not by the courts or legislatures,but by

A)the companies that own the sites and the apps.
B)retailers who have had to change their procedures to compete.
C)spammers,cybersquatters,and typosquatters.
D)Internet service providers.

Question 71

Omni Corporation provides tablets for its employees to use "in the ordinary course of its business." Omni intercepts the employees' business communications made on these devices.This is

A)a violation of the rights of Omni's employees.
B)a matter for which Omni must obtain its employees' consent.
C)a subject for dispute resolution by Omni's Internet service provider.
D)excluded from the coverage of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

Question 72

Fruit Packers,Inc. ,provides its sales representatives with phones to use in the ordinary course of business.Fruit monitors the employees' electronic communications made through the phones.This is

A)a violation of the rights of Fruit's employees.
B)within Fruit's rights even if the employer did not provide the phones.
C)a subject for dispute resolution by Fruit's phone service.
D)a "business-extension exception" under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.