Great examples. Oh, so fun--you've reminded me of reading and getting jazzed about Costanzo's _Double Exposure_ lo those many years ago, and motivated me to grab his new one very soon, too: _The Writer's Eye_.

Sigh. Does my heart good. The copyright question is intriguing, but what's so heartening for me is to see students so thoughtfully learning about compostion by making these decisions (ones they clearly care a great deal about) as they shape their films, music, narration, etc.

Composing--through writing, and film, and sound, and . . . Well, happy dance.

Meanwhile, it occurs to me that many, many a YouTube video is like that last example--using preexisting songs in their entirety, and shaping a video (with images, narration, titles, etc.) to comment upon/make an argument about those.

Kafkaz