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 The Lessig article makes a good point that we have moved into a “remix culture” at least in part because kids are growing up with access to these user-friendly ways to digitally alter basically anything they encounter—and that’s exactly what they do. How do we mitigate that in the classroom, where students have been engaging in these behaviors for years without issue…will they take us seriously when we introduce discussions about copyright etc? Should we frame the discussion more in terms of remix, as this is something they are probably more familiar with (and would that be a better way to discuss plagiarism in more traditional academic papers)?

One of the biggest components I think all of the articles touch on is that creation is often inherently collaborative/community-drive; there is no solitary genius sprouting new ideas from the ether, untethered to others (Lessig points to the benefits community bring with his example of Mixster, Price quotes Ede and Lunsford stating that situations can “vary from community to community,”etc.). How might we reframe plagiarism and fair use within the classroom to encourage students to see the larger community that they are in conversation with as they compose?