ENGL303 Spring 2010

The funniest and lamest of Facebook.

I know we don't need to do this anymore, but I thought this was an interesting site for social media. It's simply a Q&A Web page, where someone creates a page and anyone can visit the page and ask the creator a question.

The latest in social media: enter your credit card number and instantly display everything you buy. Genius or the height of intrusiveness? Or, if we can't tell, is this about some sort of triumph of social media over privacy?

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

This pdf file just gives the basic run down of how Myspace works and the dangers of social networking. It also gives ways to educate and communicate with others about the site.

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

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

Looks at the law of copyright infringement and how it should or should not be changed due to the right of creativity and free speech.

This discusses copyright cases and specifically mentions Harry Potter.

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.

Google is trying to build the world's biggest digital library. A judge in Manhattan is deciding whether they can legally do it.

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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?

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.

A database and description of online magazines

All students that got a free lap top were spied on while at home without their parents knowing.

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 article is about the use of online databases for professional research. The author explains how university databases make documents available to researchers that would have taken years to access otherwise. Essentially, one can do research in hours that would have taken an entire career to conduct decades ago.