... make it easier for us to realize it. People who produce intellectual property and the ones that benefit from it are currently discussing the implications this can have on the online music in the future. There are several main sides to the problem. There are huge corporations that deal with copyright infringement and push litigation. Overall recording industry principles say that ... is considered writing, as it is all written words and numbers. However, when executed by the computer, it functions like an invention, performing a specific task as instructed by the user. Online music falls...

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... -speech advocates claimed that a Web site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Information Technology Association of America promoted what they called an "anti-Napster" viewpoint on downloading music online (http://www.cybercitizenship.org/). The site is funded, in part, by the RIAA and aims to teach parents and children about cyberethics. SECTION TWO: MOST DON"T THINK DOWNLOADING MUSIC IS ... in their behavior. Thirty-seven percent of Internet users (or about 35 million Americans) have ever listened to or downloaded music on the Internet. The Pew Internet & American Life ...

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... year old computer wiz and was the greatest threat to the music industry. Napster had over fifty million users that would get all their free music online so the record labels and the artists weren"t getting any royalties from it. Napster finally closed the doors of their illegal service in the year ... record labels (KAHNEY). The record labels decided that the only way for them to have a chance of surviving was to get involved in the online music distribution with their own services. If they manage to monopolize the Internet music distribution they would be saved and they will again have ...

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... lose out on. Therefore only a handful of major record companies dominated the music industry. Change in structure and economics of music industry because of Internet: 1. Online sale of physical products: physical retailer falls out of picture and rest of the structure remains same. a. If website is owned by another company: i. Structure: ... cost eats up the benefit of selling at wholesale price. Typically a customer does not go to market to buy just one CD. Similarly if online shopping bag contains other items also then the shipping cost comes down. In this scenario amazon will always h...

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... recent lawsuits caps a broad investigation that began in June, when music companies said they would begin tracking down heavy users of file-sharing networks. By using a file-sharing program online, anyone can easily determine how many files a particular user is making available to others. These files include those in the format of music, video, picture, or even software. ... up in its place. The recording companies promised to file thousands more lawsuits against individuals swapping illegal copies of songs in coming months. Reflecting on the controversy surrounding socio-economics onlin...

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... going to rewrite the rules of commerce, giving corporate CEOs and small-time home-business owners even odds at pioneering this digital shopping frontier. Online advocates gushed over how the Net would foster never-before seen head-to-head competition between the commercial Davids and Goliaths in a forum ... , it is now virtually impossible to set yourself or your Web effort apart from the others." From flowers to compact disks to food, online vendors face stiffer and stiffer competition from hundreds of thousands of comparable Web sites. And as Internet commerce becomes subject to the sa...

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... many solutions that they hope it could somehow head off the threat from those free service websites.Two of their solutions are to create two online legally services called Musicnet and Pressplay.And the other one is trying to bring the copyright issue and fight with Napster in the court,trying ... to listen, maybe just to help them decide whether those CDs are worth to buy.So my first solution is to let those free downloading music online stay. I acknowledge about the copyright issue and all those stealing issue as well.But if they just rethink about it.Letting people listen to their m...

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... Chili Peppers are a band who plays variations of the rock music genre. A rock music discourse would assist the reader in recognizing that this text is framed within the rock music genre, and as such is different from other genres of music such as bluegrass, country and western and classical ... in the knowledge of North American urban cities would also be helpful to the reader in order to make meaning from this text. To recognize that this text is based on an impression of Los Angeles and the state of California requires the reader to distinguish between the different kinds ... the reader...

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... -peer (file sharing) utilities is the elimination of the need for a central index server. In true peer-to-peer fashion, these utilities search each other out online. For example, as soon as a Gnutella client comes online, it says "Hello, I'm here" to another Gnutella client. That client then tells eight other clients that it has already established contact with about the new one ... . Each of those eight then tell seven others, who tell six others and so on. This way each client has a larger number of other clients who know it is online and what content it has available. Peer to peer util...

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... , while retaining close to the original quality. This gives the listener an appealing new method to listen to music. Many believe that MP3's are breaking copyrights and is a form of online piracy. Online piracy is playing or downloading songs and lyrics from the Internet without authorization and without compensating the artists. Downloading a song without permission or compensation is considered ... online piracy. Pirate recordings are the unauthorized duplications of copyrighted recordings, the packaging of the recording, art, label, title, sequencing, etc. are all a part of piracy. Wh...

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... point in music history, there is a flow of creativity and new ideas, composers are trying new things within the restraints of the same text, they are communicating with each other and still giving the listener something to grasp onto. Meanwhile, the Medieval period chanson holds on to ... to be a gallant effort toward simplicity, Gilles Binchois sets the poem, Dueil Angoisseus, to music. In this chanson, Binchois uses the music and text to encourage expression. This song is known for its beautifully tragic, flowing melody. This is where chanson transforms from elaborate and complex to a ...

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... as Joqsuin Desprez and Jacob Obrecht whose music was made possible by Ockeghem and Busnoys. Desprez (1450-1521) was noteworthy for focusing on the text, using 5 and 6 voice pieces, imitation, homophony, smooth melodies and full triadic harmonies. One of the most influential and characteristic genre of ... predominant form of art in the seventeenth century is opera, which is a combination of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft (Norton 307). Text was largely important in both the Renaissance and Baroque periods but the manner in which they were used varied greatly. While the renaissance...

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... material. There is some legal action being taken to try and stop the flow of material from one person to another. Person to person file sharing has become rather popular online. With programs that can be found on search engines and downloaded, such as Napster, one individual can look at files offered to them by others, as well as share their ... in conjunction with major record labels, including BMG, EMI, and Warner, and a range of independent labels" (US plumps, 1). This is a day that everyone is allowed to obtain GBP5 worth of online music for free. According to the UK, if the public ...

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... rationality and order. It is a historical landmark of the cyclic Mass with unifying cantus firmus. "Josquin Despez", pp. 122-127 6) Discuss how the text and music fit together in "Ave Maria virgo serena". Ave Maria virgo serena is one of Josquin's best known works and represents the formation of his ... style because of his mastery at setting of a rhymed prayer to the Virgin Mary. Each line of the text is given new music in the form of imitation and non- imitation. A musical shape was given to match the quatrains into which the ... than in the earlier motets. This is an example of Josq...

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... will no longer need to go to retail stores to buy music, as websites are available as a convenient substitute. From an economic standpoint, there is an increasing market share for online music businesses and a decreasing market share for the brick-and-mortar retailers, as people will be "buying bytes" instead of buying tangible music media. This is made apparent by the ... art MP3 players. Will major record companies continue to dominate the business? Major record companies will continue to dominate the business, as they still possess many advantages over the novel online music industry...

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... them. As we deepen our understanding of the arts, we necessarily deepen our understanding of values, for that is what the arts are all about (Text 3). The first chapter of the book educates us about the nature of our own values. One of those values is our taste. People who ... to insight or appreciation--to the art. It is safe to say that the work of art remains the same. It is we who change (Text 5). It also presents a challenge to our responses and perceptions of art. Our responses to art usually involves process so complex that we can never ... concerns or values of their society w...

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... . Like all reformers, Calvin deeply disapproved of the use of Polyphony so central to traditional church music, which "blurred" the understanding of the text. Simple monophony was the only musical texture allowed. However, not all reformers took the displacement of Catholic musical ideals this far. In Germany, ... Luther's vision for new church music was the hymn. The style of this new breed of religious music was to encourage congregational singing. The text was translated into the vernacular language (German); the single melodic lines were simple and lyrical, and usually based on a li...

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... and decreasing CD sales are deceiving. Hilary Rosen claims in the RIAA's 2001 year-end shipments report that, "a large factor contributing to the decrease in overall shipments last year is online piracy and CD burning" (Rosen). However, the RIAA's very own statistics do not support this conclusion that downloaded music is responsible for the industry's alleged slump. Compact disc unit sales ... purchase more CD's stems from the excitement or curiosity of discovering new material and talent. Actually, 39 percent of "Music Lovers" from Bernoff's survey responded that exposure to new music...

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... constantly working to shut down its existence. Those who produce intellectual property and those who benefit from it are currently debating the implications it may have on the future of online music. There are basically two sides to the issue. On the one hand, there are those corporate monsters that scream copyright infringement and push with litigation. The recording industry, for ... . They don't agree with web sites distributing free music files of which has copyright protection. Moreover, the record industry is investing in new media venture, and seeking partners, to develop online m...

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... technology is bringing us closer realizing it. Those who produce intellectual property and those who benefit from it are currently debating the implications it may have on the future of online music. There are basically two sides to the issue. On the one hand, there are those corporate monsters that scream copyright infringement and push with litigation. The recording industry, for ... . They don't agree with web sites distributing free music files of which have copyright protection. Moreover, the record industry is investing in new media venture, and seeking partners, to develop online ...

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... and decreasing CD sales are deceiving. Hilary Rosen claims in the RIAA's 2001 year-end shipments report that, "a large factor contributing to the decrease in overall shipments last year is online piracy and CD burning" (Rosen). However, the RIAA's very own statistics do not support this conclusion that downloaded music is responsible for the industry's alleged slump. Compact disc unit sales ... purchase more CD's stems from the excitement or curiosity of discovering new material and talent. Actually, 39 percent of "Music Lovers" from Bernoff's survey responded that exposure to new music...

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... to share their ideas. Not only has it brought a new way to work, but communication is now easier then ever to talk to a friend next door or a country away. Talking online to someone and getting a vast conversation in with them, can sometimes leave u feeling closer then if u were to talk with them on the phone. And even while talking to them ... where we live. Music is now flowing faster then ever, creating cds of our own mix of music that we choose. And allowing unknown garage bands to share their music online, and get their music heard in the world. Games are another way in which we co...

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... who are huge music fans may just like one or two songs from an artist's CD, and they don't feel the need to buy the whole CD. They just get online and onto whatever music site and get the songs they want for free. As for movies, you can do the same. It could be possible to download a movie ... online, and then transfer it onto DVD. The only prices you are paying are for the blank DVDs, and the same goes for downloading songs onto blank CDs. Another major Pro ... ...

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... that the information age has achieved. The ability to communicate and exchange information across long distances has enabled the world to become a smaller place. The internet helps to build new online communities, and it creates new digital societies. The world has become a small town, and the technology helps us to breakdown barriers that kept humans seperated for centuries. Issues such as ... fans, the time can not be any better. The internet helps the music world to come together, and share music, thoughts and views. Since the invention of the mp3 technology, online file sharing serv...

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A perfect example of technology backfiring on us is expressed in the recent events involving the file-sharing network known to many as "Kazaa". As many online users know, Kazaa is a program that enables people to share their files, and in turn, download others'. In the few years it has been available, Kazaa has managed to become ... into account how much it costs to produce a CD, millions of dollars have been swept away by the illegal distribution of songs. On the other hand, having experience with the online world, I know for a fact that this won't stop the many people dedicated to "free" m...

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