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1,999 wordsWhat copyright is may be summed up as: 3. 1 [... ] a type of property right which is founded on a person's creative skill and labour. It is designed to prevent the unauthorised use by others of a work, that is, the original form in which an idea or information has been expressed by the creator. 3. 2 Copyright is not a tangible thing. It is made up of a bundle of exclusive economic rights to do certain acts with an original work or other copyright subject-matter. FN 9 FN 9 Copyright Law in Austra...
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560 wordsOne of the greatest controversies in todays society is control over the internet. Many large companies design software with intents for people to purchase and use respectively. Hackers are finding ways to crack the encryption on this software and post it across the internet for any body to download and use for free. Certain people believe that this is stealing and people should be punished. My personal opinion is that it is wrong for people to display this software across the internet for everyb...
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Record Companies Internet Companies
661 wordsFrom the publics point of view we think Napster should be able to offer a service to the public that lets us copy music for free. Unlike mp 3. com, Napster doesnt profit from offering this service to the public. In mp 3. coms case, by making us pay a fee mp 3. com in return should also pay a fee to the licensed owner of the music. We feel that this would be fair to us and to the record companies. The record companies should also receive a share of the profits. If Internet companies are profiting...
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744 wordsAs technology speeds ahead seemingly faster than light, our society and social structures are not keeping pace. The American government has grown large and inefficient. There is a push toward Globalization, as geographic societies are disappearing, a growing indifference in a new intellectual age. All of these are causes of the inability of society to adapt with current technology. Our Government has grown to try to meet the demands of a constantly changing culture. In the process, is has become...
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Word Of Mouth Music Industry
999 wordsLike the old saying goes, "The best things in life are free. " digital media is no exception. Digital media has lately been getting attention due to the legal accusations on a certain type of digital media, MP 3 s. MP 3 stands for Mpeg (a common file compression format) audio layer 3 (which means it compresses any audio into 3 layers for about 1 / 15 th the size). The lawsuits that have been springing up lately contain two arguments. In one corner, we have the argument that an artist should be a...
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800 wordsIntroduction: For centuries people had dreamed of capturing the sounds and music from the environment. Many had attempted it but no one had succeeded until Thomas Alva Edison discovered a method of recording and playing back sound. What had started out as an apparatus intended as part of an improved telephone led to the development of an instrument which would change the world, making it a happier, even a better, place to live. Revolutions: (Case of Mp 3 sharing software development) A revolutio...
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21 St Century Listen To Music
1,357 wordsThe evolution of music in the 21 st Century has set a precedence for the future music, as we know it. Inspired by a fire and passion that revs up the soul; music is the soundtrack to our lives. When we are happy we listen to music, when we are sad we listen to music. Music satisfies and spawns a plethora of emotions that are held bottled up with in us; some use music as a vehicle to express deep thoughts and emotions, others use it to just let off steam that is built from the stress that life br...
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1,588 wordsThe trading of MP 3 's or digital music over the Internet is always going to be prevalent in music, and it is an unrealistic goal to try to control. The cost of controlling the piracy issues over the Internet would cost record companies more money than what they are losing due to MP 3 trading. The record industry is trying to fight the major sites and companies in court with copyright suits. Although downloading music over the Internet and playing it back on computer or portable digital music pl...
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1,607 words... llc was the proud father. In 1984, Metallica's second album was released. The much-anticipated "Ride The Lightning" spent almost a year in Billboard's top 200 ("The Band"). It features such tracks as "Ride The Lightning", "For Whom The Bell Tolls", and "Fade To Black." Even with its success, stations refused to play the album because of its harsh attitude. The album goes gold in the same year. Metallica's third album, "Master of Puppets", showed a more melodious approach to metal. The album ...
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908 wordsDespite a year of headline-generating turmoil, musicians, techies, media executives and lawmakers gathering for the second Future of Music conference on Monday will find that much remains unresolved on the digital-music landscape. Over the past year, recording companies managed to force the shutdown of the free online song-swapping service Napster and launch services of their own. But they also saw new threats sprout up hydra-like in the form of second-generation free services such as Kazaa and ...
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1,482 wordsThis essay discusses the future of the music industry from a technical point of view, probing into details such as Napster case verdict, iPods, iTunes and next generation audio delivery formats. The Music Industry A Futuristic Look Although only a miniscule percentage of music presently sold is also distributed digitally, downloads, subscription services, ringtones and ringback's are expected to grow exponentially in the coming years. According to Jupiter Research, ringtone revenues, which were ...
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646 wordsThere is a kind of music, which is commonly referred to as? Pop? music. It attracts a variety of Americans of very different geographical, racial, and economical backgrounds. Some of the most popular artists these days that are considered? Pop? are N? Sync, Britney Spears (who, having recently turned eighteen, doesn? t seem to mind letting the guys know that she? s legal now), Cristina Aguilera, Eminem, Limp Bizkit, and Tupac Shakur. It would take a thousand pages to describe the entire commerci...
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John Updike Grocery Store
1,138 wordsA&# 038; P, by College College A&# 038; P, by John Updike, is a short essay about a young man that encounters a moral dilemma while working in a local grocery store. The essay starts when three young ladies came into the A&# 038; P, a grocery store chain, wearing only bathing suites. A younger Updike was the narrator of the story he worked in the A&# 038; P as a cashier at the time of this incident. After the girls were spotted by the manager of the store he confronted the girls and asked them t...
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Shawn Fanning File Sharing
326 wordsHistory of Napster Napster is an application that allows users to swap music with each other by using a search option which finds the songs requested by the user and then allows users to download them from other users at no cost. As of now, Napster is the world s leading file sharing community. There are 38 million users worldwide (San Jose Mercury News, November 1, 2000, pg. 1, 20 A) and 1 million new users join the music community each day. A 19 -year-old college student by the name of Shawn F...
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994 wordsMusic is beautiful, and the artists who create it are greatly appreciated. Music lets you escape reality or get you in touch with reality. Most people can relate to a lot of songs, the reason for this is because the artists who write the songs are in some way or another, just like you and me. In the last two years MP 3 s have become very popular over the Internet and on computers. The new fad deals with sharing MP 3 files with other users by downloading the songs from their computer to yours. Is...
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1,300 wordsCD Burners Who Should Be Held Responsible? In today? s world many people are using CD burners to copy Compact Disks (CD? s). The question is who should be held responsible, the companies that manufacture these devices or the people that use the devices to copy CD? s of friends and family members. No matter how you look at it, it is digital piracy, which is illegal and goes under the copyright laws of the individuals that produced the music that is being downloaded. I think that the companies tha...
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1,649 wordsGovernment Internet Intervention The Internet is a method of communication and a source of information that is becoming more popular among those who are interested in, and have the time to surf the information superhighway. The problem with much information being accessible to this many people is that some of it is deemed inappropriate for minors. The government wants censorship, but a segment of the population does not. The Internet should not be considered a bad source for people, considering ...
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