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This is a useful link to better understand the effects of copyright infringement. 

When disney bought lucas films, it turns out they bought all these different lighting and technology equipment/software. It's crazy how they can get away with owning all this technology/software and having their competitors be years away from catching up.

It'a a video I made a while ago about a different perspective on war and so called "terrorism." Both sides should share the guilt and put themselves in others' shoes. I took a voice of a retired veteran and made a kinetic typography mix in After Effects.

Quirky Thanksgiving video using stop motion--interesting effect. 

An analysis of new media and a discussion about who control it--and what effects they have on the contemporary artist 

After I stumbled upon the iconic Obama "Hope" poster, I remembered that back in 2009, artist Shepard Fairey was being sued by the owner of the original photograph (AP). Back then I was not very interested in copyright issues, so I never checked what happened with this case. It's interesting and kind of fair that AP and Shepard settled on working together, sharing the rights, and collaborating on other images+photographs. Even though Shepard transformed a "stolen" photograph, his "theft" actually put the original photo on the map. I consider it to be a fair solution for a fair use case.

If one remix/mashup is ruled to be under fair use could all potentially be fair use as well? ... Has one been ruled fair use? If so, why isn't that case used as landmark/"resource" case for others

Just some of the interesting facets of new media art forms explored. The article explains how art is limited and unlimited by modernity. 

While it is true that oneof the goals of the Copyright Act is to discourage infringement, it is by no means the only goal of that Act. The Constitution grants to Congress the power "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." U. S. Const., Art. I, § 8, cl. 8. We have often recognized the monopoly privileges that Congress has authorized, while "intended to motivate the creative activity of authors and inventors by the provision of a special reward," are limited in nature and must ultimately serve the public good. For example, in Twentieth Century Music Corp. v. Aiken, 422 U.S. 151, 156 (1975), we discussed the policies underlying the 1909 Copyright Act as follows: "The limited scope of the copyright holder's statutory monopoly . . . reflects a balance of competing claims upon the public interest: Creative work is to be encouraged and rewarded, but private motivation must ultimately serve the cause of promoting broad public availability of literature, music, and the other arts. The immediate effect of our copyright law is to secure a fair return for an `author's' creative labor. But the ultimate aim is, by this incentive, to stimulate artistic creativity for the general public good." (Footnotes omitted.) We reiterated this theme in Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340, 349-350 (1991), where we said: "The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but `[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work." (Citations omitted.) Because copyright law ultimately serves the purpose of enriching the general public through access to creative works, it is peculiarly important that the boundaries of copyrigh

This is a cool video that combines graffiti with stop motion animation.

Yes, what a remix of arts: graffiti + time lapse + stop motion animation + special effects + awesome music... It's also implied that art kind of makes itself - we're just the tools with minds! I like how the spray paint can (also with a mind of its own) comes to "the master" in the very beginning..

I posted this not because of politics but because the writer makes a very good statement about new media and how its being share. Basically the power of new media and the effects it has on a campaign, career or public image.