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Creative Commons according to CC: The infrastructure we provide consists of a set of copyright licenses and tools that create a balance inside the traditional "all rights reserved" setting that copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to keep their copyright while allowing certain uses of their work - a "some rights reserved" approach to copyright - which makes their creative, educational, and scientific content instantly more compatible with the full potential of the internet. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law. We've worked with copyright experts around the world to make sure our licenses are legally solid, globally applicable, and responsive to our users' needs. The link above shows major users of this.... site? What should we call Creative Commons?

This is a cute video explaining plagiarism for kids.  It talks about common knowledge, but where is the boundary?

So maybe everyone else knows about this but I just found out you can remix videos in Youtube that are in the creative commons. Pretty cool.

This is a really common type of remix that just alters the beat of the song, but is basically the same.  Not a parody, and it does use the heart of the work, so how does it survive?

"Defamiliarization or ostranenie (остранение) is the artistic technique of forcing the audience to see common things in an unfamiliar or strange way, in order to enhance perception of the familiar."

A transcript from 2005 of the notorious Bill O'Reilly and his guest who discuss the remix

Lessig is interviewed about Remix Culture, the Creative Commons, and his opinion of copyright law. He basically claims that copyright law is out of date with technology and the needs of society. He specifically references the Kahle v Ashcroft(2003) case and MGM vs Grokster(2005).

You can download the Amen break on this site to use in your work. It also outlines the Creative Commons and how you can use it.

Copyright as intended (according to Sandra Day O'Connor and Lessig); This sight makes it easy to share your work with out allowing companies to use it for profit with out your permission. "Remix as a mode of discourse made possible by technologies of cut and paste (convergence)"

A look at the beginning of the end for the website everyone either loved or loathed--Napster, and an exploration in (the attempts to) limit file sharing. 

Can't remember the specific time period in the interview, somewhere in the last 5 minutes. The idea of the "Good German" in our society mentioned--referring to someone who tacitly stands by and by his or her silence enables an atrocity. For example during WW2 there were many Germans who stood aside and allowed/enabled the holocaust. Americans are being "good germans" in the common sentiment that Congress is corrupt and beyond reach, but the action shown in response to SOPA and PIPA reveals there is a way for the vox populi to bring about change/fight the wrong kind of change.