Deck 4: Intellectual and Intangible Property

Question 1

The doctrine of fair use says that we are not entitled to a second royalty on a book that we have authored, for example.

Answer 1

False
The doctrine of first sale says that we are not entitled to a second royalty. Fair use allows the use of short extracts from a book, for example, without the author's permission.

Question 2

Contributory infringement involves an infringement that occurs in an area under your supervision, and when you should have been policing and preventing such acts.

Answer 2

False
Contributory infringement occurs when an infringement committed by another person would not have happened without your help.

Question 3

The ____ amended U.S. copyright law so that the definition of the term "financial gain" includes receiving copyrighted works for free.

A) Digital Millennium Copyright Act
B) NET Act
C) Fair Use Act
D) Anti-Plagiarism Act

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT protected by copyright in the United States?

A) ideas
B) sound recordings
C) sculpture
D) architecture

Question 5

____ and other peer-to-peer systems are very helpful for companies that need to deliver one large file to millions of users.

A) Google
B) BitTorrent
C) Bing
D) Box.net

Question 6

Which of the following is a product characteristic that can be trademarked?

A) sounds
B) shapes
C) colors
D) All of the above

Question 7

A copyrighted work that is still within its copyright term, but no longer has a copyright owner, is called a(n) ____ work.

A) abandoned
B) stranded
C) deontological
D) orphaned

Question 8

U.S. copyright law specifically allows us to make ____ of copyrighted works without permission.

A) grace use
B) non-ownership use
C) second use
D) fair use

Question 9

The duration of copyright protection has grown steadily and significantly.

Question 10

Intellectual property laws are required to protect trade secrets.

Question 11

The term ____ refers to a collection of technologies that work together to ensure that copyrighted content can be viewed only by the person who purchased it.

A) EEC
B) XPM
C) DRM
D) ASM

Question 12

____ infringement occurs when an infringement committed by another person would not have happened without your help.

A) Utilitarian
B) Neglectful
C) Vicarious
D) Contributory

Question 13

A(n) ____ is a legally registered word, phrase, symbol, or other item that identifies a particular product, service, or corporation.

A) wordmark
B) trademark
C) icon
D) index

Question 14

In a DRM system, the copyrighted material is ____.

A) encrypted
B) concatenated
C) mandated
D) reserved for first sale

Question 15

Computer security experts and hackers are often able to decrypt material and produce a version that is usable on any device; to prevent this, the U.S. Congress passed a law in 1998 called the ____

A) Anti-Plagiarism Act
B) Digital Millennium Copyright Act
C) Fair Use Act
D) NET Act

Question 16

Plagiarism necessarily implies copyright infringement.

Question 17

A ____ is a piece of software that allows an unauthorized user to override security and get administrator access to a computer.

A) worm
B) rootkit
C) virus
D) Trojan horse

Question 18

In U.S. copyright law, the term ____ is used for all creators, including choreographers, architects, and so on.

A) utility
B) author
C) creator
D) progenitor

Question 19

The sites that provide search functionality for BitTorrent are called ____ sites.

A) baseline
B) distributive
C) index
D) implementing

Question 20

The purpose of ____ law is to make sure that people with good ideas can profit from those ideas, even after the idea is known to everyone.

A) inventive ownership
B) imaginative property
C) ethical
D) intellectual property

Question 21

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.copyright
f.patent
b.fair use
g.trade dress
c.DRM
h.DeCSS
d.plagiarism
i.BitTorrent
e.NET Act
an example of this technology is that a book purchased for your Amazon Kindle cannot be read on your friend's Kindle, and vice versa

Question 22

The most popular index site in the world is The Pirate Bay, which allows users to search for ____.

A) torrents
B) prims
C) strains
D) remixes

Question 23

Resources held jointly by everyone are sometimes called the ____________________.

Question 24

Just counting real money transactions, virtual goods purchased with real money, the world market for virtual goods has been estimated at between ____ per year.

A) $50 million and $100 million
B) $75 million and $200 million
C) $2 billion and $10 billion
D) $10 billion and $20 billion

Question 25

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.copyright
f.patent
b.fair use
g.trade dress
c.DRM
h.DeCSS
d.plagiarism
i.BitTorrent
e.NET Act
obtained by filing an application with the USPTO

Question 26

Copyright duration is also referred to as the copyright ____________________.

Question 27

Some ____ are faster than others, and so scientists and corporations spend a lot of money and time trying to find the best one for a particular problem.

A) significant digits
B) equations
C) algorithms
D) matrices

Question 28

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.copyright
f.patent
b.fair use
g.trade dress
c.DRM
h.DeCSS
d.plagiarism
i.BitTorrent
e.NET Act
made it a criminal offense to share copyrighted works with a total value of more than $1000 within any 180-day period

Question 29

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.copyright
f.patent
b.fair use
g.trade dress
c.DRM
h.DeCSS
d.plagiarism
i.BitTorrent
e.NET Act
copying that the copier claims is original with him; the claim causes the copier's audience to behave otherwise that if it would if it knew the truth

Question 30

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.copyright
f.patent
b.fair use
g.trade dress
c.DRM
h.DeCSS
d.plagiarism
i.BitTorrent
e.NET Act
is not an infringement of copyright

Question 31

To join a virtual world, you usually have to agree to a set of terms and conditions called the ____________________.

Question 32

When you purchase content for devices protected by ____________________, the content is often locked so that it can only be used on your device.

Question 33

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.copyright
f.patent
b.fair use
g.trade dress
c.DRM
h.DeCSS
d.plagiarism
i.BitTorrent
e.NET Act
the main mechanism for protecting creative works

Question 34

____ makes price discrimination in the sale of DVDs based on geography much easier.

A) The use of Creative Commons
B) Region-coding
C) The Electronic Frontier Foundation
D) DeCSS

Question 35

____ is a program that removes the copy protection from DVDs.

A) DeCSS
B) DRM
C) BitTorrent
D) Differential Encryption

Question 36

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.copyright
f.patent
b.fair use
g.trade dress
c.DRM
h.DeCSS
d.plagiarism
i.BitTorrent
e.NET Act
the most common peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol used today

Question 37

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.copyright
f.patent
b.fair use
g.trade dress
c.DRM
h.DeCSS
d.plagiarism
i.BitTorrent
e.NET Act
allowed people to watch DVDs on open-source operating systems like Linux

Question 38

A(n) ____ server is a computer on the Internet that provides the key to unlock a file to authorized users.

A) key
B) identity
C) permissions
D) authorizing

Question 39

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.copyright
f.patent
b.fair use
g.trade dress
c.DRM
h.DeCSS
d.plagiarism
i.BitTorrent
e.NET Act
involves the look and feel of a product or its packaging

Question 40

Any company that makes a DVD or Blu-Ray player is obligated to include ____________________ technology, which prevents the user from playing videodiscs from other parts of the world.

Question 41

What is the definition of an invention?

Question 42

For what reason was the DMCA designed?

Question 43

What are virtual goods?

Question 44

To what does the term piracy refer?

Question 45

What does the text describe as a major controversy surrounding software patents and algorithms?

Question 46

On what do critics of region-coding focus?

Question 47

What are torrents?

Question 48

On what do deontological theorists focus?

Question 49

What are prims and in what context are they used?

Question 50

What is the definition and purpose of digital watermarking?