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discusses how youtube may have an agreement with entertainment companies to stream movies from youtube

Denver lawyer discusses the rights of those creating parodies.

This is an article that discusses some copyright issues of Harry Potter. This specifially mentions how other countries have adapted the story for their own countries versions.

This is relavent to my project because it discussing how many people own rights to Harry Potter and in what form.

This is an article that is discussing what is sure to become a hot new debate. If someone owns the right to the print version of a book, do they own the digital rights as well?

This website could also be helpful to several people while working on their projects. It discusses copyright laws, multimedia laws, website rules, etc.

This discusses copyright cases and specifically mentions Harry Potter.

I chose this site because I am doing my project on how relationships between people have changed since the advent of social networking. This article discusses what an "online" friend actually is.

This website discusses some recent viral video advertisements on the internet. It shows why they work, and why viral video advertising was (in some cases) their only option to advertise the product.

This is a great website devoted to the theory of Guerrilla Marketing. It is hard to define Guerrilla Marketing/Advertising, but the basic concept is to market the brand in un-conventional ways, in an attempt to grab the attention of the viewer. This could be applied to outdoor, print, television or internet advertising. If you click the "articles" link at the top, it will discuss many different aspects of guerrilla marketing.

This paper describes an empirical study on postgraduate students in a local university to investigate whether instant messaging (IM) tools are used as enabler tools for learning in tertiary institutions. We first developed a theoretical model based on the Technological Acceptance Model (TAM). We then undertook a survey of 104 postgraduate students. The findings indicated that external factors such as technology utility, network externality, media influences, self-efficacy and affection have a significant effect on perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEOU). In our study, PEOU has significant influence on the students' acceptance of IM tools as enabler for learning, contrary to past research result of PU influencing acceptance intention. Overall, the findings suggested students' perceptions of IM tools are easy to use and useful in the context of learning. The paper concludes with a discussion on implication to education.

This article talks about the sales of the Kindle and the decline in traffic at the BookExpo America compared to previous years. It discusses the fact that publishing executives have worries concerning the development of this technology and at the same time mentions that the device has also gained fans in the publishing industry.

This discusses the fact that the "first sale" doctrine that applies to physical books, CDs, and DVDs does not apply to the e-books that people "buy" on the Kindle. Basically, it states that you cannot really allow someone to borrow your "books" on the Kindle and if you wanted to sell your "book" you would have to sell the "physical media where the 'original' download is stored."

This is an internet database for songs that have been sampled along side the original song as well as songs that have been covered.

This website is basically the largest index of text/ chat abbreviations used on the web. It chronicles abbreviations from A-Z. "With the popularity and rise in real-time text-based communications, such as instant messaging, e-mail, Internet and online gaming services, chat rooms, discussion boards and mobile phone text messaging (SMS), came the emergence of a new language tailored to the immediacy and compactness of these new communication media. If you have ever received an instant message or text message that seemed to be written in a foreign language, this Webopedia Quick Reference will help you decipher the text chat lingo by providing the definitions to more than 1,200 chat abbreviations."

Considering our brief discussion about copyrighted material, I thought this link might provide an interesting perspective. Negativeland is a group of 'musicians' who splice copyrighted material together to create songs. They have faced a number of lawsuits, but continue to produce music despite widespread criticism.

Adam Ostrow discusses how celebrities, brands, corporations use twitter as a "power". "Normal" people like you and I do not use as much as expected. Is twitter the new way to find celebrity gossip or product promotions ? Is this distracting social media websites that try to make an "online community?

Cory Doctorow discusses the Authors Guild's claim concerning copywright infringement. They claimed that "only the rightsholder could authorise an 'audiobook adaptation' of a book." The article deals with the Kindle's text-to-speech synthesiser.