Final answer:
The statement that most of the content found online is not copyrighted and anyone can copy anything off the internet without infringing anyone's copyright rights is false.
Therefore, the correct answer is: option b). false
Step-by-step explanation:
Intellectual property laws protect the original works of authorship, including books and music, from being copied for commercial purposes without permission from the copyright owner.
This law also includes patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. All of these areas are related in that they deal with protecting products of the mind but in other ways they are very different.
Therefore, the statement that most of the content found online is not copyrighted and anyone can copy anything off the internet without infringing anyone's copyright rights is false.
Copying someone else's work without permission can lead to legal consequences and is considered plagiarism, which is the act of stealing material and publishing it as one's own.
In the United States, patents and copyright are regulated exclusively by federal law, as outlined in the Intellectual Property Clause. Trademarks are areas of shared jurisdiction between federal and state governments, with the federal government deriving their power to regulate trademarks through the Commerce Clause.