Protecting Privacy and Conflicts Between the Press and Government MCQs
Protecting Privacy and Conflicts Between the Press and Government MCQs
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1: In appropriation use a person’s name, picture, likeness, voice or identity for ________ without permission.
A. Commercial
B. Trade purposes
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
2: A test to determine whether the commercial use of a celebrity’s name, picture, likeness, voice or identity is relevant to a disputed work’s artistic purpose is known as _______ .
A. Artistic relevance test
B. Appropriation
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
3: Avatar is an icon or image that represents a person in a
A. Video game
B. Computer-generated content.
C. Both a & b option possible
D. None of these
4: A lawsuit in which a group of people with similar injuries caused by the same product or action sue a defendant as a group is known as ______ .
A. Class action lawsuit
B. Avatar
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
5: Commercialization used to protect people who want privacy; prohibits using another person’s name or likeness for commercial purposes without permission.
A. True
B. False
6: Data broker is an entity that ________ personal information about consumers, then sells that information to other organizations.
A. Collects
B. Stores
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
7: A judge or the jury determines which facts presented in evidence are accurate is known as _______ .
A. Fact finder
B. False light
C. Intrusion upon
D. None of these
8: False light is a privacy tort that involves making a person seem in the public eye to be someone he or she is not .
A. True
B. False
9: Intrusion upon seclusion ________ disturbing another’s reasonable expectation of privacy.
A. Physically
B. Technologically
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
10: Person’s ability to control the commercial use of his or her name, picture, likeness, voice and identity after death is known as _____ .
A. Post-mortem
B. Predominant use test
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
11: Predominant use test used the plaintiff’s name or picture more for commercial purposes or protected expression.
A. True
B. False
12: Publicizing highly offensive, true private information that is not newsworthy or lawfully obtained from a public record is known as ______ .
A. Public record
B. Private facts
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
13: Public record is a government record, particularly one that is ______ .
A. Publicly not available.
B. Publicly available.
C. Privately available.
D. None of these
14: Reasonable person is the law’s version of an _____ .
A. Total person.
B. Specific person.
C. Average person.
D. None of these
15: Right of publicity used for commercial or trade purposes only with permission.
A. True
B. False
16: Search warrant is a legal order by a judge to authorize law enforcement to _______ . Only issued with probable cause.
A. Search location
B. Seize items
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
17: Someone whose voice sounds like another person’s voice. Sound-alikes require permission or a disclaimer for commercial use is known as ______.
A. Sound-alike
B. Third-party doctrine
C. Transformative use test
D. None of these
18: A legal concept that holds that people who voluntarily give information to third parties is known as ______ .
A. Sound-alike
B. Third-party doctrine
C. Transformative use test
D. None of these
19: The idea that the law should protect privacy—the right to be left alone—was first put forward in the United States ______.
A. By the first Congress to meet in the United States in 1790
B. In a law review article written by Warren and Brandeis and published in 1890
C. In a U.S. Supreme Court case in 1950
D. By President Clinton after congressional approval in 1998
20: What did the U.S. Supreme Court decide in the United States v. Jones?
A. Physically mounting a GPS transmitter on a car amounts to a search and violates the Fourth Amendment.
B. Physically mounting a GPS transmitter on a car is not a search and does not violate the Fourth Amendment.
C. Recording a phone conversation is a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
D. The use of drug-sniffing dogs to search an area around a house after a tip that the homeowner was growing marijuana amounts to a Fourth Amendment violation.
21: In states in which the right of publicity survives a person’s death, the right of publicity may be considered as a ______.
A. Personal right
B. Property right
C. Right of appropriation
D. Right of survival
22: Appropriation would be ______.
A. Filming an auto accident for the evening news when one of the victims tells the press to leave
B. Using a newsworthy photo of a person in an advertisement without permission
C. Reusing a newsworthy newspaper photo in an ad for the newspaper that originally published the photo
D. Creating a parody sketch of a celebrity and selling it online.
23: A magazine advertisement for Gutrot Cola shows a man drinking one of the company’s products. The man looks just like BinR, a rap singer. The advertisement does not say the man is not BinR. BinR, who didn’t give permission to the candy company, sues Gutrot. BinR will ______.
A. Win because he did not give the company permission to use someone who looks like him in an advertisement
B. Win because celebrities’ pictures can never be used in advertisements
C. Lose because companies have the right to use famous people in advertisements without permission
D. Lose because the man in the advertisement was not BinR
24: Police officers give reporters permission to follow the officers into the house of a reputed drug dealer. The drug dealer likely ______.
A. Can successfully sue the reporters for intrusion if he did not give them permission to be in the house
B. Can successfully sue the reporters for intrusion, but only if the reporters refused to leave when the drug dealer told them to leave
C. Cannot successfully sue the reporters for intrusion if the police truly believed they had the right to give reporters permission to follow the officers into the house
D. Cannot successfully sue the TV station for invasion of privacy if the police had a search warrant
25: A reporter falsely tells a homeowner she is from the Newcomer’s Welcoming Committee, a private nongovernmental group. The homeowner admits the reporter into the house. Later discovering the reporter’s true identity, the homeowner sues for intrusion. The homeowner likely will ______.
A. Win the intrusion suit; nothing further will happen to the reporter
B. Win the intrusion suit; the reporter may face criminal charges
C. Lose the intrusion suit; the reporter may face criminal charges
D. Lose the intrusion suit; nothing further will happen to the reporter
26: In private facts lawsuits, ______.
A. There is a “bright-line” division between stories that are newsworthy and those that are not newsworthy
B. It does not matter if the story is newsworthy
C. Courts carefully examine the story to determine if it is newsworthy
D. Newsworthiness cannot be determined
27: A woman is sitting in her living room with a man who is not her husband. A newspaper photographer, standing on the sidewalk across the street, takes a picture of the couple with a telephoto lens, and the picture appears in the next day’s paper. The woman would have a good case for ______.
A. Appropriation
B. Intrusion
C. Private facts
D. False light
28: What is the primary outcome in Supreme Court’s Spokeo decision?
A. Search engines that provide personal information for a fee violate federal privacy laws.
B. A plaintiff does not have standing to sue for damages if he cannot show that he suffered “concrete” harm.
C. The FTC does not have the authority to regulate data brokers.
D. Video service providers are prohibited from knowingly disclosing a consumer’s personally identifiable information to a third party.
29: To win a false light suit, a plaintiff may prove either that the story was false or that the story was true.
A. True
B. False
30: Intrusion cannot occur if paparazzi are taking pictures in public parks.
A. True
B. False
31: The standard courts use to determine if a private facts plaintiff kept information private is that the information was not revealed to more than 20 people.
A. True
B. False
32: The USA PATRIOT Act allows the government to obtain information about anyone from public libraries, businesses, hospitals, and Internet service providers. The government only has to say the information is being sought for a terrorism investigation.
A. True
B. False
33: Current federal and state privacy laws stringently protect American consumers and their data.
A. True
B. False
Protecting Privacy and Conflicts Between the Press and Government MCQs
