I worked a lot on my media page tonight, and the one thing that frustrated me the most was trying to get all of the photos I wanted to talk about off of the Flickr site. The artists had given me permission to use the pictures, but how did I get them from their photostream and onto my page? I tried downloading and that didn't work, because I didn't remember how to put them on my UNC web space. After a lot of thinking I came up with a solution- I searched for the photos on the Google image search. It worked great- I was able to link to all of my photos in jpg format by clicking the "see full size image" link for each and I was then able to adjust them to whatever size I needed through my html. Just a suggestion if anyone else is having the same problem!

I found this Web site through the profile of one of the photographers on Flickr whose work I'm planning to use...it takes the complicated legal language of the Creative Commons License rules and translates them into "human readable" language.

This article claims that the RIAA's approach to copyright in an era of widespread use of digital technologies is lacking common sense. When our parents were growing up, production of recorded music was exclusive to a relatively small group of people with specialized skills and equipment. New technologies, however, have put the power of production into the hands of pretty much anyone with a computer. Of course the value of the RIAA's product has gone down, supply is way way up and demand is essentially zero because we can just do it ourselves. The actual recording isn't where an artist makes most of their money these days (with the obvious big-name exceptions). Most artist's money comes from promoting their brand and having a live performance that people are going to want to see. Therefore, 'stealing' music (and using it in remixes, mashups etc.) actually helps the artist because their fans are doing their promoting free of charge.
http://www.creativedeconstruction.com/2009/06/creative-culture-and-the-g...

Just starting a collection of readings for fair use:

The first place to go is the U.S. Copyright Office's Fair Use Provision.

Let's be Fair: Intellectual Property and New Media Composition from Daniel Anderson on Vimeo.