This law provides for the criminal prosecution of anyone who engages in copyright infringement on the Internet.
What is the No Electronic Theft Act?
Code of law that regulates relationships among persons.
What is civil law?
Common law is also known as this.
What is case law?
Defense used by abused women in an assault, battery, or murder case.
What is battered women's syndrome?
She was the defendant in our trial.
Who was Katie Charles?
A hacker who alerts corporations that they have security problems with their computer systems.
What is a grey hat hacker?
Concept in civil law that says the plaintiff's account is more likely that not true.
What is preponderance of evidence?
Previous decisions of the highest court are binding on all other courts.
What is stare decisis?
Violation of the law where there is injury to the public will.
What is a crime?
He was killed in the accident.
Who was Frederick Bear?
This law criminalizes the production of anti-piracy circumventing devices and software.
What is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?
Form of civil law punishment given if the defendant's actions are extremely malicious or highhanded.
What are punitive damages?
Judges establish common law through these.
What are written opinions?
in criminal law, special circumstances (such as mental illness) that prevent a person from acting otherwise.
What are excuses?
He was officer who arrived at the scene of the accident and conducted the official investigation.
Who was Officer Hicks?
This occurs when a lawful owner of a copyrighted work sells it.
What is first sale?
A requirement that a person act towards others with watchfulness, attention, caution, and prudence.
What is duty of care?
These have superseded most common law principles in the US.
What are statutes?
In civil law, this concept limits the liability of the consequences of an act.
What is foreseeability?
Her blood vials were the only ones broken in transit.
Who was Mary Short?
This law allows the government to search any email on your computer more than 180 days old without a search warrant.
What is the Electronic Communication Privacy Act?
A company is responsible for the actions of its employees.
What is vicarious liability?
This country's Constitution is based on common law.
What is England?
This allows copyrighted material to be used for scholarly purposes without first permission from the author.
What is fair use?
The distance from the car to the bottle of Seagrams.
What is 33 feet?