Question

Gurnoor is a budding poet. He keeps writing new poetry. Recently, he created a blog and started posting his creations on his blog. He was happy with the number of people visiting his blog. After some days he found that someone used his poetry and published it in a competition by own name. Gurnoor was never approached for permission, nor he was given credit for his work.

Based on the information above, answer the questions given below:

1. Gurnoor is a victim of
   1. Eavesdropping
   2. Plagiarism
   3. Phishing
   4. Cyber Stalking
2. In order to secure IPR for his creations, Gurnoor should have ______ his creative work.
   1. Copyrighted
   2. Patented
   3. Trademarked
   4. All of these
3. After getting his creative worksregistered/copyrighted, Gurnoor can now file for ______ under the law for plagiarism.
   1. Criminal offence
   2. Copyright Infringement and Violation
   3. Civil offence
   4. All of these
4. Which of the following is not an act of plagiarism?
   1. Using someone else’s work in incorrect form than intended originally by the author/creator.
   2. Modifying/lifting someone’s production such as music-composition etc., without attributing it to the creator of the work.
   3. Giving incorrect or incorrect source of information, i.e., wrongful citation.
   4. Watching someone’s movie on Youtube.
5. Gurnoor now also wants to secure his personal digital accounts (email and social media accounts), his blogs etc. His rights for these digital assets are termed as ______.
   1. Intelligent property rights
   2. Digital property rights
   3. Intellectual property rights
   4. Digital rights

Answer 1

1. Plagiarism
2. Copyrighted
3. Copyright Infringement and Violation
4. Watching someone’s movie on Youtube.
5. Digital property rights