Chapter 8 Ethical Social and Political Issues in E-commerce

46) How long does copyright protection extend for corporate-owned works? A) 25 years B) 50 years C) 75 years D) 95 years 47) Which of the following situations would not qualify for the fair use exception to U.S. copyright law? A) A professor clips a newspaper article just before class and distributes copies of it to his class. B) A journalist quotes a paragraph from a book in a review of the book. C) A student copies a photograph of his favorite band from a Web site created by the band’s record label and places it on the student’s personal Web site. D) Google’s posting of thumbnail images of books in the Google Book Search Project. 48) All of the following are factors that will be considered in determining whether use of copyrighted material is “fair use” except the: A) nature of the work used. B) amount of the work used. C) market effect of the use. D) free availability of the work on the Web. 49) Downloading music tracks owned by record companies without paying for them is an example of a violation of: A) patent law. B) copyright law. C) trademark law. D) privacy law. 50) All of the following are possible penalties for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) except: A) ten years imprisonment for a first offense. B) fines up to $500 000 for a first offense. C) fines up to $1 million for a repeat offense. D) restitution to the injured parties for any losses due to infringement. 51) All of the following statements about the DMCA are true except: A) the DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent technological measures to protect works. B) the DMCA makes Internet Service Provider (ISPs) responsible and accountable for hosting Web sites or providing services to infringers regardless of whether the ISP is aware of infringement. C) the DMCA requires search engines to block access to infringing sites. D) the DMCA allows libraries to make digital copies of works for internal use only. 52) Which of the following allows someone to obtain an exclusive monopoly on the ideas behind an invention for 20 years? A) copyright law B) trade secret law C) patent law D) trademark law 53) All of the following statements about patents are true except: A) it is more difficult to obtain a copyright than it is to obtain a patent. B) the four types of inventions protected by patent law are machines man-made products compositions of matter and processing methods. C) computer programs can be patented. D) in order to be patented an invention must be nonobvious. 54) Which case was instrumental in paving the way for Internet business methods patents? A) Brown Bag v. Symantec B) State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group Inc. C) Ford Motor Co. v. Lapertosa D) Ticketmaster Corp. v. Tickets.com 55) Amazon has a patent on: A) download-based sales. B) display of third party advertisements in floating windows. C) one-click purchasing. D) hyperlinks.