research

We found a good bit of information from numerous sites and web pages. Personally, I found a many useful sites, such as that of the US Copyright Office. Since this is a government run site that deals with all aspects of copyrights and the laws governing their use, I thought it should be very helpful. I also found a PDF of Congress' last session, detailing internet piracy and intellectual property guidelines, both domestic and international. Darshana also found some useful government data on the subject, while Nathan and Nayelli found more academic information.

Nathan and I met again and called Darshana, and later e-mailed Nayelli to get a group consensus. Nathan and I discussed the topics/keywords of Copyright Law, and Digital Millenium, plus a few others. We decided on these based on searches we did to find a narrow field of results. Darshana and Nayelli had their own input and agreed that we were on the right track. We settled on keywords that yielded a result of 500,000 pages and sites.

Group Project & Week 6

My group consists of myself, Nathan, Darshana and Nayelli. Nathan and I were supposed to meet Nayelli at 12:00 on Monday at Peet's Coffee to discuss the group project and who would head it up. Nayelli and I had a miscommunication on the place we were supposed to meet, however Nathan and I discussed it face to face while Darshana phoned in her thoughts during my one on one session with Nathan. We decided that the topic should be Copyright Law & Google. I have a textbook regarding business law which contains information on copyright law especially pertaining to the internet. For that reason and because my major is pre-law, I thought that this might be a good topic and have more information on copyright laws and Google. It also seems to me that there will be multiple copyright issues with a company as varied in its dealings and operations as Google is.