Critical Thinking Questions Case 11-2 in Your Introductory Course on Computers

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Multiple Choice

Critical Thinking Questions Case 11-2 In your introductory course on computers, your professor has decided to dedicate a lecture to computer ethics. There is a lot of ambiguity in this topic, and she has presented a range of circumstances for you and your classmates to review. Which is NOT an issue surrounding the concept of fair use, from copyright law?

• A) The right of students to post their own term papers on the Web.
• B) The rights of a faculty member to print material from the Web and distribute it to the members of her class for instructional purposes.
• C) The use of an anonymizer program to surf the Web anonymously.
• D) The rights of individuals to download contents of your Web site, modify it, and then put it on the Web again as their own.

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