cis3250 ch6

Which of the following allows portions of copyrighted materials to be used without permission under certain circumstances?

Plagiarism

Copyright infringement

Fair use doctrine

Use of prior art

Fair use doctrine

Reverse engineering can only be applied to computer hardware, not computer software. T/F

False

Which of the following claims as its invention some feature or process embodied in instructions executed by a computer?

trade secret

software patent

cross-licensing agreement

patent infringement

software patent

Which of the following enables a DVD player or a computer drive to decrypt, unscramble, and play back motion pictures on DVDs, but not copy them?

Time Warner Cable system

RIAA

DeCSS

Content Scramble System (CSS)

Content Scramble System (CSS)

Firefox and OpenOffice are all examples of which of the following?

Web browsers

utility software

products developed through re-engineering

open source software

open source software

The courts have ruled in favor of using reverse engineering to:

-allow the domination of a particular software market by a single manufacturer

-provide access to protected elements of an original work

-circumvent restrictive trade secrets

-enable interoperability

enable interoperability

One of the tests that an invention must pass to be eligible for a patent is which of the following?

-it must be a machine

-it must not be economical to produce

-it must be capable of providing economic benefit

-it must not be obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the same field

it must not be obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the same field

Which of the following is a logo, package design, phrase, sound, or word that enables a consumer to differentiate one company's products from another's?

trade secret

watermark

trademark

earmark

trademark

In what year was The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) signed into law?

1992

1998

1990

1996

1998

Unlike traditional copyright law, which of the following acts does not govern copying; instead, it focuses on the distribution of tools and software that can be used for copyright infringement as well as for legitimate non-infringing use?

-TRIPS Agreement

-Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

-WIPO Copyright Treaty

-Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

The redistribution of a program code with no copyright as a proprietary software can be avoided by using which of the following?

nondisclosure clause

open source license

patent protection

copyright term

open source license

Which of the following established the minimum levels of protection that each country must provide to all WTO members?

-World Trade Organization (WTO)

-Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

-The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

-Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)

Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)

Cybersquatters:

-frequently launch denial-of-service attacks against popular Web sites

-register domain names for famous trademarks or company names to which they have no connection

-remain connected to popular Web sites for extremely long periods of time making it difficult for others to obtain service

-employ phishing tactics using the domain names of popular Web sites

register domain names for famous trademarks or company names to which they have no connection

What is the name of the agreement that prohibits a departing employee from working for any competitors for a period of time?

noncompete agreement

license agreement

nondisclosure agreement

union agreement

noncompete agreement

The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act of 2008 increased trademark and copyright enforcement and substantially increased penalties for infringement. T/F

True

Two software manufacturers could conceivably develop separate programs that perform the same functions in a nearly identical manner without infringing each other's copyrights. T/F

True

Open source code is any program whose source code is made available for use or modification, as users or other developers see fit. T/F

True

A trademark permits its owner to exclude the public from making, using, or selling a protected invention, and allows for legal action against violators. T/F

False

Under which act was the U.S. patent system changed from a "first-to-invent" to a "first-inventor-to-file" system?

Economic Espionage Act

Lanham Act

Uniform Trade Secrets Act

Leahy-Smith America Invents Act

Leahy-Smith America Invents Act

Which of the following can read the machine language of a software program and produce the source code?

compiler

open source decoder

re-engineering device

decompiler

decompiler