Question 1

Employees of Bodegas & Bistros Inc. (2B) maintain a password-protected social media page to "vent about work." When 2B learns of the page, the company intimidates the network that operates the page into revealing the password, and after reviewing the posts, fires the participants. Most likely, this is

Accepted Answer

A)  a violation of the Stored Communications Act. 
B)  within 2B's rights as an employer. 
C)  a subject for dispute resolution by the communications providers that the employees' page uses. 
D)  a "business-extension exception" under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

Question 2

To protect domain name rights from would-be cybersquatters and typosquatters, AgriBusiness Inc. and other large corporations may have to

Accepted Answer

A)  register thousands of domain names across the globe. 
B)  pay the owners of Web sites with identical or confusingly similar domain names for the number of unique visits, or hits, to the sites. 
C)  change their domain names to avoid identical or confusingly similar domain names. 
D)  change their trademarks to avoid identical or confusingly similar domain names.

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

A)  cybersquatting. 
B)  typosquatting. 
C)  trademark infringement. 
D)  trademark dilution.

Question 4

Copious Bounty, LLC, and other companies operate social media Web sites, issue apps for mobile devices, obtain ad revenue from search engines, and sell directly to consumers from other sites. The privacy rights of the users of these products are frequently defined, not by the courts or legislatures, but by

Accepted Answer

A)  the companies that own the sites and the apps. 
B)  retailers who have had to change their procedures to compete. 
C)  spammers, cybersquatters, and typosquatters. 
D)  Internet service providers.

Question 5

Because of the loss of significant amounts of revenue as a result of unauthorized digital downloads, file-sharing has created problems for

Accepted Answer

A)  the motion picture industry. 
B)  recording artists and their labels. 
C)  the companies that distribute file-sharing software. 
D)  all of the choices.

Question 6

​Sound Financials Corporation sends daily e-mail ads to its previous customers and those who have opted to receive the notices.Instable Investments, Inc., sends e-mail ads to any e-mail address that Instable can find on the Web or otherwise generate.
-Refer to Fact Pattern 7-1. Sound Financials and Instable Investments are subject to the laws of the states in which they are located and do business. Thirty-seven states

Accepted Answer

A) prohibit or regulates the use of spam.prohibit or regulates the use of spam. 
B) require the use of spam by business entities. 
C) ban the use of spam altogether. 
D) preempt the application of state law to commercial e-mail.

Question 7

Global Reach Corporation uses invisible files created on the computers, smartphones, and other mobile devices of visitors to its Web sites to track the users' browsing activities. These files are

Accepted Answer

A)  licenses. 
B)  cookies. 
C)  cloud computing. 
D)  a violation of the law.

Question 8

​Sound Financials Corporation sends daily e-mail ads to its previous customers and those who have opted to receive the notices.Instable Investments, Inc., sends e-mail ads to any e-mail address that Instable can find on the Web or otherwise generate.
-Refer to Fact Pattern 7-1. One of the advertisers—either Sound Financials or Instable Investments—is acting within the bounds of federal law. Federal law permits the sending of

Accepted Answer

A) unsolicited commercial e-mail. 
B) solicited commercial e-mail only. 
C) commercial e-mail to randomly generated addresses. 
D) commercial e-mail to addresses “harvested” from Web sites through the use of specialized software.

Question 9

Federal law prevents a provider of communication services-such as a cell phone company-from divulging private communications to certain entities and individuals.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A)  dilution. 
B)  peer-to-peer (P2P) networking. 
C)  cloud computing. 
D)  a distributed network.

Question 11

Federal law prohibits the Federal Trade Commission from cooperating and sharing information with foreign agencies in investigating and prosecuting those involved in spamming.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

It is frequently the companies rather than courts or legislatures that are defining the privacy rights of their online users.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 7: Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy

To protect domain name rights from would-be cybersquatters and typosquatters, AgriBusiness Inc. and other large corporations may have to

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

Because of the loss of significant amounts of revenue as a result of unauthorized digital downloads, file-sharing has created problems for

Global Reach Corporation uses invisible files created on the computers, smartphones, and other mobile devices of visitors to its Web sites to track the users' browsing activities. These files are

Federal law prevents a provider of communication services-such as a cell phone company-from divulging private communications to certain entities and individuals.

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

Federal law prohibits the Federal Trade Commission from cooperating and sharing information with foreign agencies in investigating and prosecuting those involved in spamming.

It is frequently the companies rather than courts or legislatures that are defining the privacy rights of their online users.