Like little bread crumbs that sites and apps place on your device. They follow you around the internet and report back on your habits.

Ads are targeted to the specific user based on previous searches and sites visited (thanks to cookies).

Unique set of numbers that are assigned to any given user and device.

Terms and conditions that we must check off on before using any software. It would take 25 days a year to read these (if we actually read them)

Netflix and Hulu (and YouTube and Facebook and Amazon Prime etc) uses this to recommend new shows and content to users.

These advertisements are made to look like articles or content on the site to trick you into clicking.

This is when the media creator (YouTuber, celebrity) is paid to advertise or use a product or service in their videos/tik toks/posts/content.

This company owns ABC Television Networks, ESPN, Marvel Entertainment, Star Wars, Buena Vista Records, and Theme Parks.

This company owns Fox News, Fox Television, cable channels FX & FXX, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post. They used to own 20th Century Fox films, but sold it off to the Walt Disney Company.

This company owns Paramount Pictures, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and BET.

This company owns NBCUniversal, Telemundo, Hulu, Universal Theme Parks, and cable stations like Bravo and USA Network.

The company provides all the equipment for use of the service, which the user must lease.

When a company owns all of something (a product or service) and set the prices and quality.

the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, and not discriminate or charge differently based on user, content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, source address, destination address, or method of communication

Gives creators of media the exclusive rights to their creations. They can copy, modify, distribute, or show off their works however they want. Others need to get permission to use them

You can exercise its first amendment rights by using others’ work without permission, as long as it transforms the work in some way. (EX. showing a movie clip in class for discussion).

This is the set of all works whose copyright has expired and are free to use by anyone. Characters like Robin Hood and Sherlock Holmes or books like A Christmas Carole and Beowulf.

This refers to the access, collection and sharing of personally identifiable information, including our browsing habits and history, plus the personal information we share with all the websites and apps we us

This gave copyright holders the ability to make claims against content on digital platforms. For example, The Record Industry Association of America targeted young internet users who downloaded copyrighted materials with lawsuits.