Chapter 08 Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy

Name Clas s: Dat e: Chapter 08: Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy True/False 1. 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. ANSWER: a. b. True False True 2. Federal law permits the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail to randomly generated e-mail addresses. ANSWER: a. b. True False False 3. Any party who gives information to the Federal Trade Commission concerning possible deceptive conduct in a foreign jurisdiction is immune from liability. ANSWER: a. b. True False False 4. Cybersquatting occurs when the owner of a trademark registers the mark as a domain name but does not use it for that purpose. ANSWER: a. b. True False False 5. Under the federal law protecting trademarks, "bad faith intent" is one element of a claim of illegal cybersquatting. ANSWER: b. True False True 6. Cybersquatting is illegal only if a domain name is identical to the trademark of another, not if the name is merely confusingly similar. a. b. ANSWER: True False False 7. 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. ANSWER: a. b. True False False Page 1 Name : Clas S: Chapter 08: Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy Dat e: 8. To protect a trademark against typosquatting, a company should attempt to register potential misspellings of the mark. ANSWER: a. b. True False 9. Using another's trademark as a meta tag may be permissible. ANSWER: a. b. True False True True 10. To maintain a claim of trademark dilution, the products involved must be similar. ANSWER: a. b. True False 11. A license may limit the use of a software application to a specific device. ANSWER: a. b. True False False True 12. Downloading music into a computer's random access memory, or RAM, without authorization is copyright infringement. ANSWER: True b. False True 13. Anyone can circumvent encryption software or other technological antipiracy protection without penalty. ANSWER: a. b. True False False 14. Criminal liability for the piracy of copyrighted materials extends only to persons who exchange unauthorized copies for profit. a. b. ANSWER: Truc False False 15. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act protects copyrighted material from piracy online. a. b. True False Page 2 Name Clas s: Dat e: Chapter 08: Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy 62. Connect Web, Inc., operates a subscription-based service that extends the software and storage capabilities of its subscribers. This is a. dilution. b. peer-to-peer (P2P) networking. C. cloud computing. d. a distributed network. ANSWER: 63. Deals Inc. provides its sales representatives with phones to use in the ordinary course of business. Deals monitors the employees' electronic communications made through the phones. This is a. a violation of the rights of the employees. b. within the rights of the employer even if it did not provide the phones. c. a subject for dispute resolution by the phone service. d. a "business-extension exception" under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. ANSWER: d 64. 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 violation of the Stored Communications Act. b. within the employer's rights. c. a subject for dispute resolution by social media. d. a "business-extension exception" under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. ANSWER: b 65. Employees of Bodega Inc. maintain a password-protected social media page to "vent about work." Bodega learns of the page and intimidates the network that operates it into revealing the password. After reviewing the posts, Bodega fires the participants. Most likely, this is a, a violation of the Stored Communications Act. b, within the employer's rights. c. a subject for dispute resolution by the network. d. a "business-extension exception" under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. ANSWER: 66. 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. prohibited. b. a matter for which an employer must obtain employees' consent. c, a subject for dispute resolution by an Intemet service provider. d. permissible. Page 11