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Desribes in detail the 4 factors of Fair Use as well as mentioning music cases and law suits regarding parodies.

This might be interesting to those of you who are doing research projects on music copyright laws/ parodys, etc. I suggest watching Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" music video before watching this if you haven't already, otherwise, it's not as funny.

I had actually never watched the full video of "Bad Romance" and I loved it and the remake. I thought it was really creative... thanks for posting!

Weird Al Finds Gold - Parody, Satire & Jokes. Another site detailing what Weird Al Yankovic goes through to not be considered copyright.

A list of all Weird Al Yankovich songs and the original songs they are parodies of. This is good for comparison and copyright knowledge.

This article looks at previous copyright infringement cases based on music sampling as well as different aspects of music sampling and their laws.

This site give an overview of music sampling laws, including publishing, copyright and contracts.

A mashup artist that combines multiple songs to create each of his tracks. This is different than DJing. On average, he uses 21 songs for each one of his. His performances are featured in the documentary I posted earlier, "RIP: A Remix Manifesto". It's interesting to look at his music as a prime example of postmodernism and what that all means in terms of copyright infringement.

Denver lawyer discusses the rights of those creating parodies.

A great place to find good quality photos that you can use, legally, for projects. (Unlike Google image search.)

Lovers of offbeat music and hard-core rap would probably never use the names "Weird Al Yankovic" and "2 Live Crew" in the same sentence. Yet, they have something very important in common. The law protects their use of other people's musical works. The reason is that courts consider both 2 Live Crew's rap combined with pop music riffs and Weird Al's combination of everything... to be parodies, which are protected under fair use doctrine. from LegalZoom.com

Open Source Cinema lets you create and / or remix your own videos or other videos that people have posted from places likes YouTube. You can also join group remix projects.

"Immerse yourself in the energetic, innovative and potentially illegal world of mash-up media with RiP: A remix manifesto. Let web activist Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, serve as your digital tour guides on a probing investigation into how culture builds upon culture in the information age."

Explaining the legality of Weird Al Yankovic's parodies of songs.