research, research, research

Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 07:43PM

By Eric Richardson

So tonight I find myself in the computer lab, looking for information for a research paper due Wednesday. It's for my Legal Issues in New Media class, and the topic I've chosen to tackle is copyright terms. Right now I'm working with the juxtaposition of increasing copyright terms and what I'm calling the decreasing shelf life of information. The copyright term aspect is pretty broad and straight-forward, but the fun part is trying to figure out how you reasearch the latter aspect. What metric do you use to determine how long information is useful?

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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