Remix Media

Students are creating digital videos that are recorded on phones, web cams, digital cameras, and inexpensive video recorders. About one third of Penn State students are posting these videos online, often after they are remixed with music, pictures, and video clips that were created by other people. These "mashups" may violate copyright law or they may be acceptable within the provisions of fair use. The posts in this section of the Web site are related to issues surrounding the use of another person's work and the reuse of media as part of a new creative project.

In this video, Ryan gets a visit from his future self and they talk about options for adding music to a class project. After all, some day Ryan may want to add that project to his portfolio so potential employers can see his creative side. One viable option is music that has a Creative Commons license. You can find out more about Creative Commons by visiting their Web site. Also Penn State's Digital Commons group has put together a free media resource page that has links to a several places to get a variety of media files that can be mashed up and used for educational projects.

This video has been uploaded to YouTube.  You can embed this video in nearly any web site by using the following code:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B2IO9CmuYSg&hl=en&fs=1"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B2IO9CmuYSg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> </embed></object>