CIS FINAL

What has had the most dramatic challenge to copyrights?

The ability to digital technologies to easily duplicate the original artifact

In 16th century England who owned the copyright of a work that was printed?

The printer

Which of the following claims about the record industry is considered true?

The record industry wants to squelch demand instead of cater to it

How do many American view their work?

They develop a sense of personal value by connecting work to a broader social mission

Why are drones not considered as true robots?

They do not make their own decisions

Why do developing nations, despite having low cost labor, use robots?

To meet consistency and accuracy in the product being manufactured.

Which of the following has the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) NOT flown a drone for?

US Army

Each of the following are human limitations that transhumanism seeks to alter EXCEPT

Vulnerability to economic collapse

Besides the impact of robots on replacing humans, what is another concern raised about the use of robots?

Will automation by robots make goods and services so cheap that full-time jobs become optional for most people?

What is the stumbling block if a new artist produces her own recording on her home equipment, distributes it over the Internet, and does not sign a contract with?

Without a central entity like the record labels to manage copyrights nation-wide that

The latest automation technology is now affecting what types of jobs?

all jobs

Which of the following is a reason for the adoption of robots?

an aging population

Each of the following innovations have raised the question about the impact of automation replacing humans EXCEPT

cars on roads

Which of the following will NOT be in the next wave of employment?

creation of robots

When music files can be purchased inexpensively the number of illegal copyright violations ___________

decreases

Most would ares that there is a difference between

deliberately stealing someones creative work and carelessly copying boilerplate information

When the robot revolution starts to occur it will happen ______.

fast

The use of web links that import content from another web site without changing the URL is known as

framing

A robot regime will demand to be set in terms of each of the following EXCEPT

resource allocation

An area in which human enhancements are already occurring is in the realm of

sports

Which of the following does copyright law protect?

the expression of ideas

Limited uses of recorded sound that is permitted under the law as "recontextualizing" an existing work is called

transformative appropriation

The movement of promoting an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and evaluating the opportunities for the enhancing the human condition is known as

transhumanism

Proponents of transhumanism state that rejecting the idea of banning enhancements does not mean that their used should go ____

unregulated

What did the Supreme Court rule in the "Betamax" case that had an impact on future cases of the capability of a new technology on an existing law?

using a betamax to record TV content is considered legal

Each of the following is a condition in which robots actually create or preserve jobs EXCEPT

when skilled work is supplanted by robots

Which of the following is NOT a question raised regarding plagiarism and copyrights?

Are plagiarism and copyright truly identical?

What is a "360-deal"?

Artists are required to share a percentage of merchandise, endorsement, and concert ticket sales with the record label in return for large by the label

___________ allows for sharing of materials that does not result in payment to the original author but that author agrees to allow others to use the material.

Creative ommons

Each of the following has been a reason why copyright laws have been modified EXCEPT

Desires of copyright holders

What is the difference between machine introduced during the Industrial Revolution and machine today in the digital realm

Digital revolution machines can perform cognitive tasks

In the future when everyone could own shares of manufacturing companies (with the work done by robots) to provide a baseline income, how could someone earn more money?

Do extra work like inventing or designing

What is primary concern that privacy advocates have regarding drones?

Drones can operate undetected

Which of the following is false about drones?

Drones first appeared during World War II

___________ is a category of copyright law that allows some use of copyright material for education, parody, commentary or other noncommercial uses.

Fair use

What was the result of skilled weavers being replaced by automated power looms over 200 years ago?

In the long run automation made the entire workforce more productive

The term ________ is used of anyone who is afraid of new technology

Luddite

A(n) ______ _is required whenever a recording is reproduced in digital form and distributed.

Mechanical license

As robots take over more jobs capital will become ______ powerful and labor will become ______

More powerful, more worthless

Which of the following is FALSE about aggregation?

Aggregation was introduced within the last five years

Why should cororations be concerned about the movement into robots replacing workers?

Although robots can produce goods and services they cannot consume them.

One modern approach to plagiarism is

"ideas released to the world are free"

Robots like "Baxter" that are east to program have a starting price of ________.

$22,000

It is predicted that within the next ________ years about ____ percent of our current jobs, practices, and professions will be performed by robots.

100, 70

At one warehouse a robot is able to do the equivalent work of ______ person(s)

2.5

The current copyright length in the U.S. is

70 years following the death of the author

The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimated that in 2010 ______ percent of downloads involved music that users worked

80%

Privacy Advocates want congress to require which of the following?

A detailed report on a drone's intended use prior to receiving a license

Which of the following is NOT an Issac Asimov "Law of Robotics"?

A robot cannot replace a human being

In which nation did copyright laws originate?

Britain

In the U.S. who or what has the power to set copyright standards?

Congress

What is NOT an arguments for a work without record labels?

Faster and deeper market penetration

To data the US Supreme Court has not considered the limits of drone surveillance under the

Fourth Amendment

What happens to a work once the copyright has expired?

It is considered to be in the public domain

Why is free time, which may be the result of what humans are given through the use of robots, considered dangerous?

It raises the question as to what to do with it

Privacy advocates say that drones may do each of the following EXCEPT

Launch offensive airstrikes against subversive individuals

Which of the following is NOT a proposed use for drones?

None of the listed answers are incorrect

Each of the following is a sensor than can be attached to a drone EXCEPT

None of the listed answers is incorrect

When new recoding artists sign contacts with record labels who will generally own the copyright to any recordings that the artists will produce?

Record Label

Shorter product lifestyle require

more flexible robots

In 1799 each of the following was protected by U.S. copyright laws EXCEPT

music

According to privacy advocated when drones are used to gather evidence which of the following rules are NOT necessary?

Speed

Bertrand Russell notes that there are two types of work: altering the position of matter and _________

Telling other people to work

What was the concern in the early 1970s when researchers first discovered the ability to move genes from one organism to another?

That people could be modified to the extent that they were no longer human

Which of the following has ben struck down by the US Supreme Court?

Whether police could use a GPS device to track the movement of a suspect without a warrant

In the "betamax" case why did the courts rile that video cassette recorders (VCRs) were legal despite the fact that the...

a VCR could be used for other purposes than recording TV content

Funding for the Customs and Border Patrol for the use of drones has resulted in

a budget shortfall

A danger of transhumanism is

a human can be considered as an entity that may be improved

The US Customs and Borders Protection (CBP) use drones for each of the following areas EXCEPT

a large metropolitan area

Which of the following a NOT a sign of a computer-driven economy?

a steady increase in the share of the population that is employed

What is one difficulty for critics of transhumanism?

a wide range of ideas falls under its label

Most robotic advance to date do not involve _________ machines

generalized

What is the greatest danger of offloading work to a robot?

human downgrading

Whenever automation displaces people in manufacturing it almost always ________ output.

increases

Which of the following is a global definition of transhumanism?

it refuses to accept traditional human limitations

Which of the following would be illegal regarding a book that you purchased?

make copies of it

Security advocates claim the legislation regarding drones should include each of the following EXCEPT

modification restrictions

What percentage of new recording artists will generate enough profit for the record labels to offset the losses of unsuccessful

none of the listed answers

Genetic changes can be used for each of the following EXCEPT

reduce the risks associated with electromagnetic infections

Each of the following have been current human improvements made possible with bionics EXCEPT

reduction of disease