@ Megan:

http://hippiemii.blogspot.com/2011/06/week-1-reading-copyright-issues.html#comments

Megan, I agree with you up to a point. However, there are people out there that are remixing and using bits and pieces of movies and images for a profit without giving proper attribution. I describe it like this to my students. One of my students makes a really awesome piece in Illustrator and I put it up on a site. A Creative Director is surfing and finds this piece and decides to use it in an ad campaign. After all, it's just a lowly high school student that created it who would believe the student vs a successful CD. Then you have the remixing going on in Brazil. They say the "artist" doesn't make a profit. I don't know to many people that are going to spend that much time on something just to share at a concert that has 5,000+ people attending.