Exam 9: Internet Law, social Media, and Privacy

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

Volatile Investments Inc.sends e-mail ads to any e-mail address that the sender can find on the Web or otherwise generate.Under federal law,Volatile's marketing method

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act protects copyrighted material from piracy online.

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

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

InfoFree Inc.makes and sells devices and services for the circumvention of encryption software.Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,this is

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

Rue obtains permission from Saga Company to use the firm's game app on Rue's mobile devices.But Rue does not obtain ownership rights in the app.This is

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

Under the federal law protecting trademarks,"bad faith intent" is one element of a claim of illegal cybersquatting.

Criminal liability for the piracy of copyrighted materials extends only to persons who exchange unauthorized copies for profit.

Under the First Amendment,every U.S.citizen has a right to be forgotten with respect to outdated personal information otherwise searchable online.