Quiz 4

Question 1

The value of intellectual property is recognized
A) in the Constitution of the United States.
B) in the free market.
C) All of these
D) in legislation passed by the U.S. Congress.
E) through court decisions.

Answer 1

C) All of these

Question 2

The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit in Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation established that the display of thumbnail images by a search engine
A) is legal, even when the original images are pornographic.
B) is a fair use of those images.
C) is an illegal attempt to circumvent Web filters.
D) is an unfair use of network bandwidth.
E) is not a fair use of those images.

Answer 2

B) is a fair use of those images.

Question 3

Apple’s digital rights management system called FairPlay prevented
A) songs from being played on more than five computers.
B) All three of these.
C) Two of these, but not the CDs seven times.
D) songs from being copied onto CDs more than seven times.
E) music purchased from the iTunes Store from playing on non-Apple MP3 players.

Answer 3

B) All three of these.

Question 4

Sometimes it is legal to reproduce a copyrighted work without the permission of the copyright holder. These circumstances are called
A) fair use.
B) public domain.
C) reciprocity.
D) noncommercial use.
E) piracy.

Answer 4

A) fair use.

Question 5

Suppose you buy a Microsoft game at the bookstore. Under current U.S. law, which of the following actions is illegal?
A) Preloading it onto the hard disk of a computer being sold
B) None of these is illegal
C) Distributing it over the Internet
D) All of these are illegal
E) Copying it onto a CD to give or sell to someone else

Answer 5

D) All of these are illegal

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Trademark

Question 7

The proper noun “Kleenex” is protected
A) with a trademark.
B) with a copyright.
C) with a patent.
D) as a trade secret.
E) All of these

Answer 7

A) with a trademark

Question 8

BitTorrent speeds file downloading by ___________________________________________________.

Answer 8

allowing different pieces of a file to be downloaded simultaneously from different computers

Question 9

Thanks to the work of Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig and his collaborators, you can use a _________________________ license to retain the copyright while allowing some uses of your intellectual property under certain circumstances.

Answer 9

Creative Commons

Question 10

Intellectual property is a unique product of the human intellect that
A) can be performed in public.
B) has commercial value.
C) cannot be understood by anyone other than the creator.
D) can be reproduced digitally.
E) has been produced on paper.

Answer 10

B) has commercial value.

Question 11

The U.S. Congress addresses the tension between society’s desire for inventions to be in the public domain and the inventor’s expectation of profit by giving inventors exclusive rights to their discoveries ________________________.

Answer 11

for a limited period of time

Question 12

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is controversial, in part, because
A) it increases penalties for on-line services providers whose customers are misusing copyrighted materials.
B) it extends the length of time that a piece of intellectual property is protected by copyright.
C) it makes it illegal for consumers to circumvent encryption placed on digital media.
D) All of these
E) it extends copyright protection to music broadcast over the Internet.

Answer 12

D) All of these

Question 13

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

Answer 13

“clean room”

Question 14

The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit in RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. established the concept of
A) intellectual property protection for movies.
B) fair use.
C) space shifting.
D) time shifting.
E) licensing fees for videotapes.

Answer 14

C) space shifting.

Question 15

In 2005 Sony BMG Music Entertainment made headlines by
A) announcing they would begin shipping CDs without digital rights management.
B) purchasing the publishing rights to the Beatles’ songs from Michael Jackson.
C) shipping CDs that secretly installed a rootkit on Windows computers.
D) shipping CDs that would only play on devices manufactured by Sony.
E) purchasing the iTunes Store from Apple.

Answer 15

C) shipping CDs that secretly installed a rootkit on Windows computers.

Question 16

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sony v. Universal City Studios established the concept of
A) intellectual property protection for movies.
B) licensing fees for videotapes.
C) fair use.
D) time shifting.
E) space shifting.

Answer 16

D) time shifting.

Question 17

In September 2003 the RIAA sued 261 individuals _______________________________________.

Answer 17

for distributing copyrighted music over the Internet

Question 18

The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992
A) protects the right of consumers to make backup copies of CDs.
B) None of these
C) requires manufacturers of digital audio recording devices and blank digital media to pay a royalty to songwriters and music publishers.
D) requires manufacturers of digital audio records to incorporate the Serial Copyright Management System.
E) All of these

Answer 18

E) All of these

Question 19

The Linux operating system is an example of
A) free-market software.
B) unreliable software.
C) pirated software.
D) open-source software.
E) proprietary software.

Answer 19

D) open-source software.

Question 20

Which of the following rights is not a right of a copyright holder?
A) The right to perform the work in public
B) The right to reproduce the copyrighted work
C) The right to produce new works derived from the copyrighted work
D) The right to prevent others from producing competitive works
E) The right to distribute the work to the public

Answer 20

D) The right to prevent others from producing competitive works

Question 21

Which philosopher argued in The Second Treatise of Government that people have a natural right to property?
A) Jeremy Bentham
B) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
C) John Stuart Mill
D) Immanuel Kant
E) John Locke

Answer 21

E) John Locke

Question 22

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

Answer 22

trade secret

Question 23

Compared with other peer-to-peer networks, BitTorrent takes advantage of the fact that broadband Internet connections
A) are immune from surveillance by the police.
B) continue to drop in price.
C) have become the standard in most homes in the United States.
D) All of these.
E) provide higher speeds for downloading than for uploading.

Answer 23

E) provide higher speeds for downloading than for uploading.

Question 24

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

Answer 24

D) Napster went off-line.

Question 25

The court’s ruling in Apple Computer v. Franklin Computer Corp. established that
A) the “look and feel” of a computer program can be patented.
B) Apple Computer could not patent its desktop icons.
C) object programs can be copyrighted.
D) computer hardware can be patented.
E) computer software can be copyrighted.

Answer 25

C) object programs can be copyrighted.

Question 26

_____________ had to pay Polaroid $925 million for violating seven of Polaroid’s patents for instant photography.

Answer 26

Kodak

Question 27

Google Books is
A) an effort to scan millions of books and make all their words searchable.
B) an online store competing with Amazon.com.
C) a book reader designed to compete with the Kindle.
D) an effort to gain copyrights on millions of books in the public domain.
E) None of these

Answer 27

A) an effort to scan millions of books and make all their words searchable.