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Patently Offensive Legally Obscene
5,385 words... to Sound Warehouse, a record store in Broward County, and bought a cassette version of the "Nasty" recording. He listened to the album, had six of its songs transcribed, and prepared an affidavit stating these facts. On February 28, 1990, Deputy Wichner sent the affidavit, the transcripts, and a copy of the "Nasty" tape to Judge Mel Grossman of the Broward County Circuit Court, requesting that the judge find probable cause that "Nasty" was legally obscene. On March 9, Judge Grossman issued a...
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Recording Studio Technology And The Producer
1,950 wordsStudio technology has developed drastically over the years and has become ever more vital to the record producer within the music industry. Different producers make use of studio technology in different ways, often depending on the style of music that they are producing, their preferred method of production and the bands preference of sound. The development of recording technology has run parallel to a reorientation in popular music production. The goal of getting a good sound is no different no...
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Recording Companies Capitol Hill
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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Intellectual Property Rights District Court
2,882 wordsDigital Bootlegging and Its effects on the Music Industry Before the advent of MP 3 files it would require 1. 400 megabytes to represent just one second of stereo music in CD quality. MP 3 is short for Moving Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer III. Standard MP 3 compression is at a 10: 1 ratio, and yields a file that is about 4 MB for a three-minute track. In 1987, Prof. Dieter Seitzer of the University of Erlangen created the MP 3 format to replace pre-existing MPEG audio coding. The reason MP ...
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Listeners Ears Master Tape Recording
771 wordsMusic Assignment Music is art and it takes a wave of inspiration to overtake an artist for the new peace of music to be created. It takes much more efforts, however, to deliver it to the listeners ears. Sometimes, song creators need help to start recording and promoting their song. This process might take a great amount of time and energy the result is worth it, though: the author becomes popular and the listeners get a hit. Many young musicians wander whether they should record anything at all....
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Rock And Roll George Harrison
2,305 wordsFinal paper; The Beatles Break-up The End of a Legend As they walked off the plane, thousands of people stood there to welcome them. They were screaming their names and singing their songs. Everyone had heard of them, they were the true meaning of rock and roll; they defined it. They were the biggest sensation since Elvis; they called themselves The Beatles. They had never expected to be the next sensation. No one ever expects to become a great legend in national or world history. It had taken t...
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Thomas Edison Recording Industry
3,198 wordsThe Phonograph Overview The invention of the phonograph and other sound reproduction machines began a new way of producing historical archives. Expressions of the human voice were no longer limited to their abstraction as words on the page, and the artistry and passion of a musical performance could be preserved outside human memory. People could bring the sounds of the world into their homes, and a global culture began to arise out of the mixture of influences that a broad diversity of recordin...
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Compact Disc Digital Audio
1,384 wordsAudio Format Wars By: Sheldon Khan Before buying a new car, getting married, or adopting a new audio format it is wise to ask a few questions, peer under the hood, and ask the advice of someone you trust. Will the new format satisfy your needs not only now but, also in the future? Will it look (and sound) as good on all the mornings after you first met? The analogue cassette is an old and trusted versatile friend that went with you on those morning jogs and cruised in the car with you on Friday ...
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Rave Scene Record Companies
2,332 wordsComputers and Music Over centuries past, music has seen leaps and bounds in the enhancement of theory, instruments, and recording arts. The first major leap was the invention of the piano in 1709 by Bartolomeo Cristofori. From that first major step came the introduction of electronic instruments short after the harnessing of electricity which came in the early 19 th century. Soon after that came recording and then on to synthesizers and eventually digital recording. As computers were introduced ...
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Shawn Fanning Limp Bizkit
3,009 wordsIs trading digital music using Napster Online legal or copyright infringement? First, we must find out what Napster is and who created it. Napster is a combination of? the features of existing programs: the instant-messaging system of Internet Relay Chat, the file-sharing functions of Microsoft Windows and the advanced searching and filtering capabilities of various search engines? (Greenfield). Basically all it is, is a really cool little program that a person can download off of the internet f...
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Hard Disk Digital Audio
517 wordsDigital Multi-Track Audio Recording The art of multiple track audio recording has been around since the invention of audio tape, which was actually created to record multiple tracks to mix down into a stereo pair on a vinyl record. Lately, with the fast growing technology in the area of digital audio, a plethora of mediums are now available for recording multiple tracks of audio. The first, and still most widely used, form of digital audio recording is the DAT (Digital Audio Tape). The tape itse...
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United States Department United States Today
8,191 wordsEconomic Growth Common Idea Economic growth is the most important study in economics today. The first book on economics was by Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations the full title was the Inquire Into The Nature And Sources Of The Wealth Of Nations. Economic growth determines a countries future, and economic growth in the past determines a countries present as far as its material values are concerned. (Buechner Recording) So every material value of the modern world is a result economic growth in the ...
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Sense Of Place Avant Garde
2,708 wordsOverview Brian Eno, born 1948, is a British experimental musician and multimedia artist, producer and digital-age philosopher / a esthetician . Eno is known for his range of innovations as an artist, producer, and thinker. He has experimented with a wide variety of musical and multimedia forms and technologies, and has collaborated with and produced other ground-breaking artists like David Bowie, David Byrne, and Laurie Anderson. Eno is also known for inspiring controversy and altering perspecti...
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Crime Scene Physical Evidence
3,240 wordsForensic Science: Proper Crime Scene Techniques. Essay, Forensic Science: Proper Crime Scene Techniques. The word Forensic is derived from the Latin forests, meaning of the forum. 1 In ancient Rome, the forum was where governmental debates were held, but it was also where trials were held the court house. From that, forensic science has come to mean the application of the natural and physical science to the resolution of matters within a legal context 2. Forensic Science can be viewed as a tripa...
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Martin Luther King Type Of Music
6,354 wordsBy 1945, nearly everyone in the African American community had heard gospel music (2). At this time, gospel music was a sacred folk music with origins in field hollers, work songs, slave songs, Baptist lining hymns, and Negro spirituals. These songs that influenced gospel music were adapted and reworked into expressions of praise and thanks of the community. Although the harmonies were similar to those of the blues or hymns in that they shared the same simplicity, the rhythm was much different. ...
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Recording Industry Association Mp 3 Player
1,051 wordsAre MP 3? s a breakthrough in technology or are they just another bomb waiting to explode on us? Many people say they are good, while others say they are not just bad, but horrifying to musicians that want to make it to the top. MP 3? s are widely used by teenagers on their computers usually illegally, and their distributors are constantly being threatened by the producers of the music. Millions of dollars are being lost due to the Internet craze of the MP 3 technology. This is mainly because fe...
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Recording Industry Association Recording Companies
3,028 wordsMP 3 s: Friend or Foe? MP 3 s, a breakthrough in technology or are they just another bomb waiting to explode on us? Some say they are good while others argue that they are not just bad, but horrific to musicians that want to make it to the top. MP 3 s are used widely by teenagers on their home computer, usually illegally and are constantly being threatened by the producer of the music. Billions of dollars are being lost due to the Internet craze of the MP 3 technology mainly because no one is bu...
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Sex And Violence Parental Advisory
1,208 wordsThe regulation of music in America has been increasing significantly with the advancements of such companies like Napster and the technology to burn or copy cd s. Bands such as Metallica and rap singer Dr. Dre have been some of the leaders in the fight to eliminate the piracy of copyrighted music. Along with these regulations, the parental advisory system that has been in effect since the mid 1980 s has also taking many steps to update their system to help parents identify music which includes e...
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Intellectual Property Rights Mp 3 Files
2,056 wordsNapster Napster Napster s Battle Napster has become a part of all most every individuals vocabulary. It can be argued that Napster is the same blank tapes, meaning that both can record music from the original format and be used to play later. Also, people who think that Napster should be shut down say that it is taking money away from the artist and their royalties. It is subject debated; whether or not Napster has violated the copyright laws set forth by the record companies. This is to be dete...
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Wall Street Journal Mp 3 Player
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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