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This website deals with remix videos. It allows people to create their own remixes as well as informs them about the laws regulating copyright and remix issues. This is another forum, like YouTube and Creative Commons, that encourages and allows users to interact, recreate, and remix the topic of his or her liking. It will be helpful to my topic by providing yet another example of the fascination and movement toward interacting with a published and copyrighted item. It also helps me to define how remixing videos should be governed.

Lawrence Lessig deals with the read/write remix culture and the copyright laws that are attempting to strangle this new form of expression. The father of Creative Commons, Lessig exposes intellectual property law and its absurdity in today's internet culture. The website offers clips of Lessig's presentations about this topic. This will be helpful for my topic, which is essentially a form of read/write collaborative remixing. This will help me to define the laws governing this innovative culture.

Remixing - is the authorship? is mashing and mixing someone else's work an active of creativity and authorship?

This article deals with the topic of "fair use," which is the copyright doctrine that allows the use of copyrighted works in certain circumstances without having to gain the owner's permission. It also correlated "fair use" with the popular video sharing website YouTube. This source was found through the database Project Muse. It was printed in the University of Texas Press. Its information is credible and useful. As for my project, this article will be helpful in determining if "fair use" applies in connection with fan remix videos of Twilight. Once this is determined, I will be able to better define the creators of these remixes.

This website provides a huge amount of resources to fans. Not only does it provide blogs and a video board, it includes groups that promote Team Jacob, Team Bella, and Team Edward. The website provides fans with the latest news about the series, including clips from the new movie and the songs that will appear on the Twilight soundtrack. This website will provide insight into the phenomenon of fans creating their own videos and will help me to understand the motivations for the fan remixes.

This master's thesis uses sociological methods to discover why Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" series has become such a cult phenomenon. This article is relevant to my project, which focuses on YouTube "remixes" of the popular series. This article will help to explain why such a large portion of the population is attracted to the series. It may also be useful in ascertaining the force that drives the creators of the videos perpetuate their multimedia expressions.

There are 340,000 video results for Twilight. Some are trailers made by fans in anticipation of the movies, spoofs, remixes, alternate endings - and the most creative - a Twilight puppet show.

Read the Remix article on mash-up DJ, Girl Talk. On the heels of releasing his latest release Night Ripper, the mixtape lover goes shopping for everything from random cassette tapes to mainstream CDs at Gramaphone Records in Chicago.

This website allows DJ's to remix versions of songs from various artists and place them together under one playlist. Visitors to the site can then commen on the mixtape, as well as listen/download it.

This fan website provides an extensive forum for Twilight fans. It is interactive, allowing fans to post their own Twilight art, watch videos relating to the saga, explain why they like the books, and even track the site on Twitter. Interestingly, it provides a list of Twilight conventions, so fans can meet worldwide to talk about the books. This is important to my project because it helps me to further understand the fascination that fans have with the series. By exploring sites such as this, which also have fanfiction links, I can learn what ties the fans together and urges them to create their own Twilight remixes.

This article provides a harsh criticism to YouTube, saying that it encroaches upon the "legitimacy and perhaps even survival of forms of vernacular creativity." This source was found through Project Muse and published in the "Cinema Journal." In regards to my project, it will be useful to have an opposing perspective to the videos posted upon YouTube. This perspective will help me to determine my theories and opinions on user-generated remixes and extensions of popular media.