The Internet

For the first part of the blog I am going to comment on a copyright issue titled: "They stole an image of my son and just had to pay $4000". In this article, an electronic company called Vinderen Elektriske used an image of the authors son in one of their advertisements. This is a violation of US copyright laws. I feel that the company rightfully had to pay the money due to the fact that they 1. did not notify the photographer and 2. they did not document where they received the photograph. I think the author is right in being upset solely from the fact that they did not apologize and grant some sort of compensation for using the picture. If it was my son or daughter I would not only want to know where they got the picture from but also an apology would be in order.


The second part of this blog refers to a lecture my computer class received about Internet searches and evaluating web pages. I actually learned a lot of interesting things about Google that I never knew before. For example, I learned that you can limit the domain on your searches (like only finding sites that are .gov or .edu). I also learned that there is a Google scholar site where you can search scholarly journals and websites. That site is going to be handy when I want only scholarly research for projects or things. It its funny because I thought I was a pretty good Google searcher but I still learned a lot of new things today.