ACCT 2700 Quiz #9

A social media post is not subject to discovery in litigation. (T/F)

False.

Anyone can circumvent encryption software or other technological antipiracy protection without penalty. (T/F)

False.

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

False.

Cybersquatting is legal when the person offering for sale a domain name that is the same as another's trademark intends to profit from the sale. (T/F)

False.

Employers are prohibited from taking actions against employees or applicants based on their social network postings. (T/F)

False.

Federal law permits the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail to randomly generated e-mail addresses. (T/F)

False.

File-sharing can be used to download others' stored music files without raising copyright issues. (T/F)

False.

In posting statements or photos to a social media site, a person clearly has a reasonable expectation of privacy. (T/F)

False.

Many states require the sender of an e-mail ad to tell recipients how to opt out of receiving future e-mail ads from the sender. (T/F)

True.

Using another's trademark as a meta tag may be permissible. (T/F)

True.

Haute Dawgs Corporation allows its trademark to be used as part of a domain name for Haute Dawgs NY Inc., an unaffiliated company. Haute Dawgs NY does not obtain ownership rights in the mark. This is A. a license. B. trademark dilution. C. trademark infringement. D. fair use.

A. a license.

Because of the loss of significant amounts of revenue as a result of unauthorized digital downloads, file-sharing has created problems for A. all of the choices. B. recording artists and their labels. C. the motion picture industry. D. the companies that distribute file-sharing software.

A. all of the choices.

Jade transfers selected musical recordings, without the copyright owners' authorization, through her phone to her friends. Jade does not charge her friends for this "service." This is A. copyright infringement. B. "fair use." C. goodwill. D. a license.

A. copyright infringement.

Payback Inc. discovers that defamatory statements about its policies are being posted in an online forum. Q Web Inc., the Internet service provider whose users are posting the messages, refuses to reveal the users' identities. To obtain those identities, Payback should initially A. file a suit against the anonymous users. B. gain unauthorized access to Q Web's servers. C. file a suit against Q Web. D. ask the U.S. Department of Justice to issue a subpoena.

A. file a suit against the anonymous users.

Sales Corps Inc. provides tablets for its employees to use "in the ordinary course of its business." Sales Corps intercepts the employees' business communications made on these devices. Under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, this is A. permissible. B. a subject for dispute resolution by an Internet service provider. C. a matter for which an employer must obtain employees' consent. D. prohibited.

A. permissible.

Skye posts excerpts from comics and graphic novels on social networking sites without the permission of the owners of the copyrights to the illustrations and stories. This is A. goodwill. B. copyright infringement. C. a license. D. "fair use."

B. copyright infringement.

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

B. the companies that own the sites and the apps.

CallTalk Corporation, a phone-time seller, uses its mark "calltalk" as its domain name. Later, Converse Inc. uses the domain name "callltalk" (a deliberate misspelling of "calltalk") without CallTalk's authorization, to sell sexually explicit phone conversations. This is A. a license. B. trademark dilution. C. a legitimate marketing technique. D. a fair use.

B. trademark dilution.

Interactive Entertainment Corporation markets its products online. Through the use of cookies, Interactive Entertainment and other online marketers can A. "sweet talk" consumers into buying certain products. B. gain access to competitors' servers. C. track individuals' Web browsing activities. D. attack competitors' Web sites.

C. track individuals' Web browsing activities.

Odell is an employee of Packing Corporation. She uses social media in a way that violates her employer's stated social media policies. Packing disciplines Odell and then, after a second transgression, fires her. This is A. a subject for dispute resolution by social media. B. a violation of the Stored Communications Act. C. within the employer's rights. D. a "business-extension exception" under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

C. within the employer's rights.