Exam 7: The Environment of Electronic Commerce Legal Ethical and Tax Issues

The connection between a tax-paying entity and a government is called jurisdiction.

A(n) _____ is the expression of willingness to take an offer, including all of its stated terms.

An entity becomes liable for _____ infringement if it is capable of supervising the infringing activity and obtains a financial benefit from the infringing activity.

A(n) _____ is a right granted by a government to the author or creator of a literary or artistic work.

State courts have _____ jurisdiction over issues governed by state laws.

A digital _____ is a digital code or stream embedded undetectably in a digital image or audio file.

_____ occurs when someone other than a domain name's owner changes the ownership of the domain name.

The _____ is the U.S. government agency charged with administering the country's tax laws.

What is the difference between subject-matter jurisdiction and personal jurisdiction?

A(n) _____ is collected by a seller at each stage of a transaction.

A(n) _____ is a distinctive mark, device, motto, or implement that a company affixes to the goods it produces for identification purposes.

_____ law arises when elected legislative bodies pass laws.

Ethics issues are significant in the area of online privacy because laws have not kept pace with the growth of the Internet and the Web.

_____ is a form of control over physical space and the people and objects that reside in that space, and is a defining characteristic of statehood.

The issue of _____ can arise when an employee of a company accepts a contract and the company later asserts that the employee did not have the authority to do so.

A click-wrap acceptance occurs when a Web site user agrees to that site's end-user license agreements or its terms and conditions by clicking a button on the Web site.

The _____ patent protects a specific set of procedures for conducting a particular business activity.

In the context of online crime, in a(n) _____, the perpetrator offers to share the proceeds of some large payoff with the victim if the victim will make a "good faith" deposit or provide some partial funding first.

_____ taxes, which include sales taxes, use taxes, and excise taxes, are levied on the products or services that a company sells or uses.

People receive constructive notice that they have become subject to new laws and cultural norms when they cross an international border, even if they are not specifically warned of the changed laws and norms by a sign or a border guard's statement.