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