No Class, Monday 11/24

You may use the class time to meet with your groups though. Have a great Thanksgiving!

Final Group Projects

Final Web Project and Symposium (1000-2000 words): Due Monday, 12/15, 9:00-11:30 AM.

Your final group project will be on a topic chosen by your group relating to the issues raised in Lessig's Free Culture and will be presented to the class during our regularly scheduled final exam period.

Each group will focus on one specific web site that deals with copyrighted digital content such as YouTube, Pandora, Flickr, LastFM, GarageBand, iTunes, MySpace, GoogleBooks, MarvelDigitalComics, NetFlix, or any of the many, many other sites you may find. Making explicit and substantive use of Lessig, you will examine the ways in which current copyright laws are impacting these sites and the services they offer and suggest specific policy changes that might better serve the various interests involved.

Your group will publish online and then present to the class for discussion your particular case study, arguments, conclusions, and recommendations using an online medium or combination of mediums: blog posts, web pages, youtube video, podcast, twitter, myspace page, flickr, or any other online form/s. Be clear, creative, specific, focused, and complete in your exposition.

Your grade will be based on both what you say, and how you say it using your chosen online tools, as well as on your in-class presentation and exposition.

Post the address of your group project to your individual class blogs.

Below are the groups for your final projects:

Group 1:
Jordan McCarthy
David Gill
Chris Spender
William Lehman

Group 2:
Scott Walker
Rio Tazewell
Paul Butler
Stewart Cox

Group 3:
Lauren Franklin
Dane Mann
Christina Fisher
Nathan Walker
Margaret Patterson

Group 4:
Amanda Highsmith
Jeff Worley
Caleb Humphries
Carrie McKeee
Chase Gibson

Group 5:
Christine Baratta
John Edwards
Lindsey Harkins
Jonathan Fawcett

The Break Down

This is a post of wired magazine's article deciphering all the different artists' clips that comprise one of the songs on mashup artist, Girl Talk's new album.

Here is the link again:
http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/pl_music_1609

Harvard Law Professor Defends Song Swapping

Ironically after our talk yesterday, I found this article on a website that I read everyday. Its a really short article about a Harvard Law Professor defending a Boston University graduate on the basis that the Copyright Act of 1999 is unconstitutional. Should be interesting to follow.

Another Link to Article!!

I just had to share

(Click title for article)

I came across this article just now and had to share it with the class. Apparently, there is a real life couple who met in the virtual world of Second Life. It's not completely out of the ordinary until the man started cheating on his new wife with someone else in the same virtual world. She got so mad that she broke up with him!

It's just weird to think about, that's all. Does this really happen? What did this 28 year old woman see in this 40 year old bald guy? Or, better yet, what did she see in this man's "avatar?"

Fair(y) Use

What are we Thinking?

My web assignment 3 after I have FINALLY found Contribute!!!