When news organizations do not have the money to send a reporter on a trip to cover a story, they sometimes accept ____.

a junket

"red carpet" treatment

transcripts

royalties

 

What difference between Napster and Kazaa caused difficulty for entertainment industry lawyers who wanted to stop the latter?

Kazaa had no central company or service to shut down.

Napster was headquartered in the United States.

Kazaa used encrypted technologies to shield its users.

Napster was clearly violating copyright law.

 

 

Citizens' electronic privacy rights were reduced by:

the Patriot Act of 2001

the Digital Millennium Act

the Electronic Privacy Act of 1987

the Child Online Privacy Act

 

 

Brin's article describes two different cities. Which of the examples below is one of the cities described?

a city where only corporations are able to watch people

a city where everybody is able to watch everybody else

a city where everybody is able to watch the government, but not vice versa

 

 

Mann's article suggests that ___________ might be one way of solving piracy issues in the music industry.

P-chips

copyright boxes

going after small offenders

new piracy laws

 

 

 

What agency would handle complaints about your local telephone service?

Your state's public utility commission

A lobbying organization

An international standards organization

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration

 

Horizontal and vertical integration tend to bring better services, cheaper prices, and more opportunities for smaller, independent media firms.

True

False

 

 

Brin defines the "Paradox of the Peacock". Which paraphrased contradiction listed below does this colorful metaphor describe?

People hate to listen to criticism, especially leaders who may need to hear it most.

In most societies, nobody watches the watchers.

When a democratic country uses government invasion into privacy, we applaud it as a measure of security. When a non-democratic country does the same, we criticize it as a violation of human rights.

A city where nobody watches anyone (privacy before electronic devices

 

 

 

When does the Federal Trade Commission take action against deceptive practices in advertising?

If the message is likely to mislead the consumer

If the consumer is found to be acting reasonably under the circumstances

If the omission, falsehood, or representation is "material" or likely to affect actual purchase decisions

All of the choices

 

 

 

Mann's essay on copyright:

claims that copyright violation in the age of new media is the least of our worries

claims that current copyright law is no longer needed with the advent of new communication technologies

indicates that existing copyright law is perfectly capable of accommodating new communication technologies and needs no revision

reveals the complex nature of the copyright debate brought on by the emergence of new communication technologies

What law protects Americans from monopoly abuses by telecommunications companies?

the Electronic Privacy Act

the Sherman Antitrust Act

no answers are correct

the Communications Act of 1934

 

 

 

Which agency would pursue companies for false advertising on the Web?

FTC

FCC

ITU

NTIA

 

 

A student who copies and cites a small passage of text and a few images off a web site to use in a web design project for a class assignment is applying:

the Digital Millennium Act

no answers are correct

the Copyright Term Extension Act

the Fair Use doctrine