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Which of the following rights is not a right of a copyright holder?


A) The right to reproduce the copyrighted work.
B) The right to distribute the work to the public.
C) The right to perform the work in public.
D) The right to prevent others from producing competitive works.
E) The right to produce new works derived from the copyrighted work.

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In 2005 Sony BMG Music Entertainment made headlines by


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.

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The Linux operating system is an example of


A) free-market software.
B) open-source software.
C) pirated software.
D) proprietary software.
E) unreliable software.

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In September 2003 the RIAA sued 261 individuals for__________________ .

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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 __________________.

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

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


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.

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


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.

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Apple's digital rights management system called FairPlay prevented


A) songs from being played on more than five computers.
B) songs from being copied onto CDs more than seven times.
C) music purchased from the iTunes Store from playing on non-Apple MP3 players.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

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Microsoft changed course after its proposed cloud-based gaming experience for the Xbox One received negative feedback from customers. Three features of the licensing agreement were most controversial: disc owners could share a disc only once, freedom to buy and sell used discs was restricted, and __________________.

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

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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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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 a fair use of those images.
B) is not a fair use of those images.
C) is an unfair use of network bandwidth.
D) is an illegal attempt to circumvent Web filters.
E) is legal, even when the original images are pornographic.

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

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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.

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Google Books is


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

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The value of intellectual property is recognized


A) in the Constitution of the United States.
B) in the free market.
C) in legislation passed by the U.S. Congress.
D) through court decisions.
E) All of the above

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The court's ruling in Apple Computer v. Franklin Computer Corp. established that


A) computer hardware can be patented.
B) computer software can be copyrighted.
C) object programs can be copyrighted.
D) the "look and feel" of a computer program can be patented.
E) Apple Computer could not patent its desktop icons.

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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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BitTorrent makes file downloading faster by___________________________ .

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al lowing d ifferent pieces of a file to be downloaded simultaneously from different computers

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