Exam 9: Internet Law, social Media, and Privacy

Dana downloads music into her computer's random access memory,or RAM,without authorization.This is

BeFriends Corporation uses the trademark of Community Life Inc. ,a social media site,as a meta tag without Community Life's permission.This may be permissible

Anyone can circumvent encryption software or other technological antipiracy protection without penalty.

Online conduct gives rise to only a narrow variety of legal actions.

A license may limit the use of a software application to a specific device.

Pia registers a domain name-qualitytires.com-that is confusingly similar to the trademark of Quality Tires Inc.Pia has a "bad faith intent" to profit from the mark by selling the name to Quality Tires.This is

A social media post cannot be used to invalidate a settlement agreement.

Federal law permits the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail to randomly generated e-mail addresses.

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

Sonya and other employees of TransGlobal Inc.maintain a password-protected social media page on which they post comments on work-related issues.The posts range from positive to negative,supporting the page's purpose to "vent about work." When TransGlobal learns of the page,the company intimidates Sonya into revealing the password,and after reviewing the posts,fires her and the other participants.Which federal law discussed in this chapter most likely applies to this situation? Has this law been violated? Discuss.

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

In posting statements or photos to a social media site,a person clearly has a reasonable expectation of privacy.

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.

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

"Fair use" cannot be asserted as a defense to a charge of copyright infringement in a dispute concerning digital sampling.

Cybersquatting occurs when the owner of a trademark registers the mark as a domain name but does not use it for that purpose.

The employees of Eco Engineering Inc.share company-related resources among multiple computers without requiring a central network server.This is

Under the Communications Decency Act,Internet service providers are liable as publishers of defamatory statements that come from a third party.

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

"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.