Christopher Austin, a 2008 student in Professor Geoffrey Sirc's ENGL1501W Literature of Public Life, had his final class project "Let's Talk - Girl Talk" published on-line in The Jump: Journal of Undergraduate Multimedia Projects. A professor at the University of Texas-Austin, where the journal originates, had come across the piece and contacted Professor Sirc to find Austin and obtain permission. The class project, outlined in The Jump, was to create a digital work about some aspect of public life. Austin's video tackles the subject of fair use in sampling popular music.
