CMP 235 QUIZ 4 CHAPTER 4

Patent trolls are companies that specialize in buying patents and enforcing patent rights.

In DRM it is legal to circumvent copy controls for fair use purposes such as making a personal backup copy

The secure digital music initiative is the first big revision of copyright law since 1976.

In the apple computer v. franklin computer court case, franklin was not found guilty as they reversed engineered the object code without copying it.

Some smartphone makers agreed to cross license each others patents

Reverse engineering is allowed for patented software

Approaches in DRM include encryption and digital marking

Companies treat source code as trade secret

The duration of DRM protection last for 20 years like patents

DRM meets the requirements of fair use

First generation peer to peer networks uses a centralized computer/server for the index of content to be shared

In software, the copyrights protected the expression of an idea not the idea itself

Due to software patents, companies with new products fear getting sued for patent infringement

In DRM, any technological solution is bound to fail

Since large size software application with more than a million line of code can contain thousands of algorithms it is possible to infringe a patent without intending to