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A social media post cannot be used to invalidate a settlement agreement.

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B) False

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Dana downloads music into her computer's random access memory,or RAM,without authorization.This is

A) copyright infringement.
B) within Dana's rights as a computer user.
C) a basis of liability for the computer maker if it does not act against Dana.
D) none of the choices.

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Federal law prevents a provider of communication services-such as a cell phone company-from divulging private communications to certain entities and individuals.

An employer may have a right to terminate a person based on his or her violation of the employer's social media policy.

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.In those states with antispam laws,federal law

Interactive Entertainment Corporation markets its products online.Through the use of cookies,Interactive Entertainment and other online marketers can

Mobile Device Company (MDC) discovers that defamatory statements about its policies and products are being posted in an online forum.NuView Inc. ,the Internet service provider whose users are posting the messages,refuses to disclose the identity of the person or persons responsible.MDC should

Global Reach Corporation uses invisible files created on the computers,smartphones,and other mobile devices of visitors to its Web sites to track the users' browsing activities.These files are

Cybersquatting is illegal only if a domain name is identical to the trademark of another,not if the name is merely confusingly similar.

Keisha is an employee of Leeway Corporation.She uses social media in a way that violates her employer's stated social media policies.Leeway first disciplines its employee and then,after a second transgression,fires her.This is

Penalties exist for anyone who circumvents encryption software or other technological antipiracy protection.

Without authorization,Bennie uses the trademark of Cielo Coffee Company to promote cheap,flavorless candy,which is not similar to Cielo's products but diminishes the quality of the coffee company's mark.This is

Prodigious Profit,LLC,and other companies operate social media Web sites,issue apps for mobile devices,obtain ad revenue from search engines,and sell directly to consumers from other sites.The privacy rights of the users of these products are frequently defined,not by the courts or legislatures,but by

Basso includes in his song "Chords" a few seconds of Dante's copyrighted sound recording "Etudes" without permission.Some federal courts have found that such digital sampling 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.By using a domain name similar to CallTalk's,CellTalk is most likely

Omni Corporation provides tablets for its employees to use "in the ordinary course of its business." Omni intercepts the employees' business communications made on these devices.This is

Grain Mill Company brings a suit against Milled Grain Company under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act,alleging that Milled Grain is profiting from a domain name that is confusingly similar to Grain Mill's trademark.If Grain Mill is successful,a recovery may include

InfoFree Inc.makes and sells devices and services for the circumvention of encryption software.Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,this is

"Dawn" is a song included in the sound track of "eDay," a movie produced and distributed by FasTrac Corporation.The song features a digital sampling of a few seconds of the guitar solo of one of George Harrison's copyrighted sound recordings without permission.Does this digital sampling constitute copyright infringement on the part of FasTrac? Explain.

To maintain a suit for the invasion of privacy,a person must have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the particular situation.