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Google's new privacy policy is taking too much of the user's personal information when collecting data. They aren't spelling out their intentions for the data, and this sort of stuff freaks me out. All of these major companies i.e. google, Facebook, twitter have found ways to take more and more information from the user without his knowledge. 

Pinterest is an online forum where people can post articles, videos, recipes, photos, etc., that express their own interests. It is a fascinating way in which "every consumer gets courted across multiple media platforms" since each person's pinterest "boards" depict multiple ways of gathering information and appeals to popular cultural phenomenons. It is also very similar to diigo in many ways that I think is interesting- different websites that are used to organize the mass amount of information that people encounter while searching the web.

For me, pinterest is the place where I, as the syllabus says, "keep found things found"

This is a funny story about someone's Siri not knowing about Hurricane Sandy. It's kind of stresses the lesson to not rely on a single piece technology so much. 

Information on Girl Talk and its evolution from mixtapes. Ties in a bit with out conversation about stealing music through time. 

Copyright resources for journalists and photographers, basically information on how to stay inside the law. 

Information on the film "Copyright Criminals" and sampling. 

 A medias artist takes pictures of people taken without their consent on Google's street view and places them back where they were first taken. Is this art? Or is this misuse of private data? 

Information on "Decollage"--the opposite of collage. Instead of compiling things, it is an art form done by "taking away." 

Information about the Remix Artist Collective, a group focused of re-interperating musical works to create a derivative work. 

National Geographic's response to the remix: Not a lawsuit, but instead, information? 

Information and a link to the viral video "The Crazy Nasty-Ass Honey Badger"--originally nature footage aired by National Geographic, later "remixed" by adding a different voice over. The video spawned several ad campaigns, a line of products, and the nickname for now inactive LSU Tyrann Mathieu. 

Example of how remixes can be found all throughout society - from music to politics

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 article talks about the copyright issues of mash-ups and songs in Glee.  It's an interesting and brief article, but if you have time you should check out the comments section. 

this is a super duper interesting and relevant article. thanks! "The absence of any mention of copyright law in Glee illustrates a painful tension in American culture. While copyright holders assert that copyright violators are "stealing" their "property," people everywhere are remixing and recreating artistic works for the very same reasons the Glee kids do - to learn about themselves, to become better musicians, to build relationships with friends, and to pay homage to the artists who came before them."

"Copyright holders even routinely demand that YouTube remove videos of kids dancing to popular music." That's just wrong...

the "law"