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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.

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.

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.

Stephenie Meyer has been allegedly sued to "stealing" the vampire novel idea from Jordan Scott. Apparently Scott began writing a novel in 2003, which she published online, that had "similarities in language, plot lines, characters, and other points" with Meyer's fourth installment in the Twilight series "Breaking Dawn." This website is helpful because it yet again will help me to define what copyright means to Meyer herself, which will help me decide how the videos affect copyright law.

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.

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 is Stephenie Meyer's official website. She shares her motivations for writing the book, the process, glimpses into each book, and information about herself. The most interesting section is the link called Midnight Sun, in which she details how her 5th novel was illegally released before publication on the internet.