Exam 8: Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy

"Dawn" is a song included in the sound track of "eDay," a movie produced and distributed by FasTrac Corporation. The song features a digital sampling of a few seconds of the guitar solo of one of George Harrison's copyrighted sound recordings without permission. Does this digital sampling constitute copyright infringement on the part of FasTrac? Explain.

Broadband Inc., an Internet service provider, supplies information to the Federal Trade Commission concerning possible unfair or deceptive ads originating in a foreign jurisdiction. Under federal law, Broadband is

In entering personal information to a banking site online, a person may have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

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

ConnectWeb, Inc., operates a subscription-based service that extends the software and storage capabilities of its subscribers. This is

Interactive Entertainment Corporation markets its products online. Through the use of cookies, Interactive Entertainment and other online marketers can

Employers are prohibited from taking actions against employees or applicants based on their social network postings.

To protect a trademark against typosquatting, a company should attempt to register potential misspellings of the mark.

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

File-sharing can be used to download others' stored music files without raising copyright issues.

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.

Federal guidelines allow a company to disclose material information about itself through social media as long as investors are notified in advance.

Without authorization, Ben uses the trademark of Cielo Coffee Company to promote cheap, flavorless candy, which is not similar to Cielo's products but diminishes the quality of the coffee company's mark. This is

To maintain a claim of trademark dilution, the products involved must be similar.

Employees, clients, and others with authorization use World Transport Corporation's network around the globe to share computer files. This is

Burger Corporation allows its trademark to be used as part of a domain name for Burger NY Inc., an unaffiliated company. Burger NY does not obtain ownership rights in the mark. This is

Basso includes in his song "Chords" a few seconds of Dante's copyrighted sound recording "Etudes" without permission. Some federal courts have found that such digital sampling is

Digital sampling can constitute copyright infringement.

Web Invest Inc. buys and sells domain names with the click of a mouse. A domain name can be bought and sold many times. Each change of owner is registered automatically as part of a mass registration. In this environment

Afford Motors LLC, an auto broker, uses the trademark of Ford Motor Corporation in a meta tag without Ford's permission. This is