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When you download an application on your smartphone,you are typically entering into a license agreement.

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Online defamation is wrongfully hurting a person's reputation by communicating false statements about that person to others online.

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Cybersquatting occurs when key words are inserted into a Web site's keywords coding to tell Internet browsers specific information about a Web page.

ConnectWeb,Inc. ,operates a subscription-based service that extends the software and storage capabilities of its subscribers.This is

Downloading music into a computer's random access memory,or RAM,is not copyright infringement,even if it is done without authorization.

In some states,an unsolicited e-mail must include a toll-free phone number that the recipient can use to ask the sender to send no more unsolicited e-mail.

Using another's trademark in a meta tag does not normally constitute trademark infringement,even if it is done without the owner's permission.

About half of the states have enacted legislation to protect individuals from having to disclose their social media passwords.

In an attempt to combat spam,thirty-seven states have enacted laws that prohibit or regulate its use.

Sonya and other employees of TransGlobal Inc.maintain a password-protected social media page on which they post comments on work-related issues.The posts range from positive to negative,supporting the page's purpose to "vent about work." When TransGlobal learns of the page,the company intimidates Sonya into revealing the password,and after reviewing the posts,fires her and the other participants.Which federal law discussed in this chapter most likely applies to this situation? Has this law been violated? Discuss.

Jason transfers select copyrighted music recordings,without the copyright owners' authorization,through his computer and phone to his friends.Jason does not charge his friends for his "service." This is

Fact Pattern 9-1​ Sound Financials Corporation sends daily e-mail ads to its previous customers and those who have opted to receive the notices.Instable Investments,Inc. ,sends e-mail ads to any e-mail address that Instable can find on the Web or otherwise generate. -Refer to Fact Pattern 9-1.One of the advertisers-either Sound Financials or Instable Investments-is acting within the bounds of federal law.Federal law permits the sending of

Web Marketing Inc.buys and sells domain names with the click of a mouse.A domain name can be bought and sold many times.Each change of owner is registered automatically as part of a mass registration.In this environment

Federal law permits the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail and does not prohibit spamming activities.

An internal company network can better protect the company's trade secrets.

Employees,clients,and others with authorization use World Transport Corporation's network around the globe to share computer files.This is

Fact Pattern 9-2​ CallTalk Corporation,a smartphone and phone-time seller,chooses to use and register "calltalk" as its domain name.Later,CallTalk's less successful competitor,CellTalk Company,chooses to use and register "caltalk" (an intentional misspelling of "calltalk") as its domain name.Still later,Call&Talk,Inc. ,uses the domain name "callltalk" (also a deliberate misspelling of "calltalk") without CallTalk's authorization,to sell pornographic phone conversations. -Refer to Fact Pattern 9-2.Call&Talk's use of the domain name "callltalk," without CallTalk's authorization,to sell pornographic phone conversations,is

"Bad faith intent" is too subjective to be an element of a cause of action under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.

An Internet service provider is liable for any act of copyright infringement by its customer.

Employees of Bodegas & Bistros Inc.(B&B) maintain a password-protected social media page to "vent about work." When B&B learns of the page,the company intimidates the network that operates it into revealing the password.After reviewing the posts,B&B fires the participants.Most likely,this is