Unlike traditional copyright law, the _____ 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.
Digital Millennium Coy Right Act (DMCA)
_____ allows portions of copyrighted materials to be used without permission under
certain circumstances.
Fair Use Doctrine
The concept that an idea cannot be copyrighted but the _____ of an idea can be is key
to understanding copyright protection.
Expression
A _____ claims as its invention some feature or process embodied in instructions
executed by a computer.
Software Patent
Miller v. _____ is the Supreme Court case that established a test to determine if
material is obscene and therefore not protected by the First Amendment.
California
_____ involves the examination of Internet records in an attempt to reveal the identity of
an anonymous poster.
Doxing
The _____ of 2008 increased trademark and copyright enforcement and substantially
increased penalties for infringement.
Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act
Patent law protects _____.
Inventions
_____ is the act of stealing someone's ideas or words and passing them off as one's
own.
Plagiarism
_____ is the control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the
Internet.
Internet Censorship
, The courts have ruled in favor of using reverse engineering to _____.
enable interoperability
The _____ established the minimum levels of protection that each country must provide
to all WTO members
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
Despite the importance of _____ in early America, it took nearly 200 years for the
Supreme Court to render rulings that addressed it as an aspect of the Bill of Rights.
Anonymity
A(n) _____ prohibits a departing employee from working for any competitors for a
period of time
noncompete agreement
The Supreme Court has held that obscene speech and _____ are not protected by the
First Amendment and may be forbidden by the government
Defamation
If an employee sees a coworker viewing porn on a workplace computer, that employee
may be able to claim that the company has _____.
created a hostile work environment
Violation of the _____ can cause a school or public library to lose funding to help pay for
its Internet connections.
Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
_____ allows people to state their opinions without revealing their identity.
Anonymous expression
Legally obtained information that is gathered to help a company gain an advantage over
its rivals is called _____.
competitive intelligence
One of the tests that an invention must pass to be eligible for a patent is that it must
_____.
be obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the same field
Proponents of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) contended that shielding
children from drugs, hate, pornography, and other topics is a sufficient reason to justify
_____.
Internet filters
The redistribution of a program code with no copyright as a proprietary software can be
avoided by using a(n) _____.
open source license