Question 1

In Sony v. Universal City Studios, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that time shifting is .

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Question 2

Since the first Copyright Act was passed in 1790, both the length of copyright protection and the kinds of intellectual properties that can be copyrighted have .

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Question 3

The proper noun "Kleenex" is protected

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A)  as a trade secret. 
B)  with a trademark. 
C)  with a patent. 
D)  with a copyright. 
E)  All of the above

Question 4

Under some circumstances it is legal to reproduce a copyrighted work without permission. These circumstances are called .

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Question 5

Compared with other peer-to-peer networks, BitTorrent takes advantage of the fact that broadband Internet connections

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A)  continue to drop in price. 
B)  are immune from surveillance by the police. 
C)  provide higher speeds for downloading than for uploading. 
D)  have become the standard in most homes in the United States. 
E)  All of the above.

Question 6

In RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that space shifting is .

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Question 7

After the RIAA sued Napster,

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A)  the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Napster. 
B)  Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that legalized file sharing. 
C)  Congress made peer-to-peer networks illegal. 
D)  Napster renamed itself KaZaA. 
E)  Napster went off-line.

Question 8

In 2005 Sony BMG Music Entertainment made headlines by

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A)  purchasing the publishing rights to the Beatles' songs from Michael Jackson. 
B)  purchasing the iTunes Store from Apple. 
C)  announcing they would begin shipping CDs without digital rights management. 
D)  shipping CDs that would only play on devices manufactured by Sony. 
E)  shipping CDs that secretly installed a rootkit on Windows computers.

Question 9

In The Second Treatise of Government, makes a case for a natural right to property.

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Question 10

BitTorrent speeds file downloading by .

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Question 11

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sony v. Universal City Studios established the concept of

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A)  fair use. 
B)  intellectual property protection for movies. 
C)  licensing fees for videotapes. 
D)  space shifting. 
E)  time shifting.

Question 12

Merchandise 7X, the formula for Coca-Cola syrup, is a famous example of a type of intellectual property known as a .

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Question 13

Arriba Soft Corporation was sued for copyright infringement because its Web search engine returned . A court later ruled this was a fair use.

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Question 14

Intellectual property is a unique product of the human intellect that

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A)  has commercial value. 
B)  can be reproduced digitally. 
C)  has been produced on paper. 
D)  can be performed in public. 
E)  cannot be understood by anyone other than the creator.

Question 15

A company's logo is an example of a type of intellectual property that can be protected by a .

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Question 16

In 1991 a U.S. District Court judge ordered to pay $510,000 to a group of eight book publishers for violating their copyrights by producing photocopied packets of reading materials for college students.

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Question 17

Sony BMG Music Entertainment's Extended Copy Protection system provoked controversy because it .

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Question 18

A software development strategy helps ensure a company's software program does not duplicate any code in another company's product.

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Question 19

A network allows computers running the same networking program to connect with each other and access files stored on each other's hard drives.

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Question 20

Suppose you buy a Microsoft game at the bookstore. Under current U.S. law, which of the following actions is illegal?

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A)  Copying it onto a CD to give or sell to someone else 
B)  Preloading it onto the hard disk of a computer being sold 
C)  Distributing it over the Internet 
D)  All of the above are illegal 
E)  None of the above is illegal

Exam 4: Intellectual Property