Brief Hypotheticals 6.1

Irene sues Mark for defamation. During the lawsuit, Irene wants to obtain copies of Mark's posts on his social media. Irene will:

Be allowed to obtain Mark's social media posts before the trial begins.

Yakov downloads a movie onto his laptop without permission from the movie provider. Yakov has violated:

Copyright law.

Russell reserves the domain name "juliaroberts.com" and creates a fan Web site dedicated to Julia Roberts, the actress. Russell eventually sends Ms. Roberts a letter offering to sell her the domain name. Which term defines Russell?

Cybersquatter

Jennifer has filed a privacy complaint against Google. The federal agency to conduct an investigation of consumer complaints is the:

FTC.

MediaContact, Inc., specializes in sending unsolicited commercial emails on behalf of its clients. MediaContact may be required to do the following to comply with state laws. Choose two.

Include a toll-free phone number or return email address that the recipient can use to ask the sender not to send unsolicited emails.

Comcast, an Internet service provider, provides Internet service to Louis, who posts false and harmful statements about Madeline. Madeline will be able to sue:

Louis, but not Comcast, for defamation.

GoInternet, Inc., is an Internet-access service provider that is being forced to manage numerous unwanted emails from a sender of email advertisements. GoInternet can sue the company that is e-mailing spam under the CAN-SPAM Act if the sender does any of the following except:

Sends messages involving products of companies previously sued under the CAN-SPAM Act.

Takota Retail discovers that one of its employees, Barry, has disparaged the company on Facebook about its selling practices. Takota Retail has a policy in place that expects employees to "avoid public comment that adversely effects the company." Takota can:

Terminate Barry based on his violation of the company's social media policy.

Ron reserves the domain name www.wamart.com before Wal-Mart does, which directs a user to a Web site he has set up that sells retail goods online. Ron's action is known as:

Typosquatting.

Julian sends false and deceptive e-mails from a computer in France to recipients in the United States. United States government officials can cooperate and share information with foreign governments under the:

U.S. Safe Web Act.

Michael, a teacher, posts derogatory comments about his fellow teachers and students on his Facebook page and is subsequently terminated. His posts likely:

Violated school policy, and his termination will be upheld.