My project focuses around the copyright laws of musical parodies, specifically Weird Al Yankovic.
This is an important topic because there are thousands of law suits yearly between record companies and various artists. I think that musicians like Weird Al Yankovic are multimedia authors and are fully in their rights to create there own parody works.
Mary Donato
Mary, I like where you are going with your topic. I have also decided to look at the legal issues and lawsuits based on music sampling. I wonder hoe similar the laws are and what each musicians rights are in comparison to parodies. Are you going to include specific cases in your project? If not, I definitely think you should research cases that court has seen in relation to musicians and parodies. I really like your focus though, it is totally interesting!