Chapter 9 Internet law, Social Media, and Privacy

license

In the context of intellectual property, a contract permitting the use of a trademark, copyright, patent, or trade secret of certain purpose. In the context of real property, a revocable right or privilege of a person to come n another persons land.

trade name

A term that is used to indicate part of all of a business's name and that is directly related to the business's reputation and goodwill.

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

False

An internet service prover (isp) is not liable for copyright infringement by its customer unless the ISP is aware of the subscribers violation

True

Federal wiretapping law covers electronic forms of communication

True

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.

True

It its frequently the companies rather than courts or legislatures that are defining the privacy rights of their online users

True

Law enforcement uses social media to detect and prosecute criminals

True

Online defamation is wrongfully hurting a persons reputation by communication false statements about the person to others online

True

Social media posts are routinely included in discovery in litigation

True

The law does not restrict the "fair use" of methods for the circumvention of encryption software or other technological anti piracy protection for educational and other noncommercial purposes

True

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

True

trademark

distinctive mark, motto, device, or implement that a manufacture stamps, prints, or otherwise affixes to the goods it produces so that they may be identified on the market and their origins made known.

trade secret

information or a process that gives a business an advantage over competitors who do not know the information or process

Copyright

is an intangible property right granted by federal statue to the author or originator of a literary or artistic production specified type

Certification mark

is used by one or more persons, other than the owner, to certify the regions, materials, mode of manufacture, quality, or other characteristics of specific goods or services.

Intellectual property

property resulting from intellectual,creative processes. Patents, trademarks, and copyrights are examples of intellectual property

Using anothers trademark in a meta tag is not permissible, even if the use is reasonably necessary

False

patent

A government grant that gives an inventor the exclusive right or privilege to make, use, or sell his or her invention for a limited time period

service mark

A mark used in the sale or the advertising of service, such as to distinguish the service of one person from the service of others.

Trademark dilution occurs when a person registers a domain name that is the same as, or confusingly similar to, the trademark of another and then offers to sell the domain name back to the original owner

False

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

False

Cybersquatting occurs when key words are inserted into the hypertext markup language code to tell internet browsers specific information about a web page

False

Employees who use social media in a way the violates their employers stated polices cannot be disciplined or fired form their jobs

False

Employers can monitor employees electronic communications made in the ordinary course of business, including employees personal communication

False

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

False

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

False

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

False

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

False

trade dress

The image and overall appearance of a product, the distinctive decor, menu, layout, and style of service of a particular restaurant.

Dilution

With respect to trademarks, a doctrine under which distinctive or famous trademark are protected are protected from certain unauthorized uses of the mark regardless of a showing competition or a likelihood of confusion

Collective Marks

appear at the end of motion picture credits to indicate the various associations and organizations.