Audio Pastiche: Digital Sampling, Intermediate Copying, Fair Use

Digital Rights Management and Fair Use

The recent controversies surrounding Amazon's removal of George Orwell's '1984' from Kindle readers, the BBC's proposal to encrypt Freeview High Definition (HD) content and Microsoft's permanent ban on Xbox Live users who have modified or 'chipped' their consoles have all served to highlight the debate over Digital Rights Management (DRM) and digital copyright. In the past, DRM measures have be...

Digital Content Protection and Fair Use: What's the Use?

It was October of 2010, on a Saturday afternoon. Tom and Kelly sat down and ordered a recently released blockbuster smash hit from their digital cable television pay-per-view system. Halfway through the movie, Tom’s text-enabled wireless phone alerted him of a problem at his office. ‘‘Looks like they’re going to need me at work for a few hours. I’m really sorry. I’ve got to go. How about we rec...

Compositional Use of Digital Audio Effects

This article tracks the composers’ desire for increased control over continuous musical variables through examples for music from the last few centuries. Examples are given on the development of notation and orchestration. A special focus is provided on electroacoustic music as a natural continuation of this development, and typical types of timbral development and structural discourse are brou...

On Fair Exchange, Fair Coins and Fair Sampling

We study various classical secure computation problems in the context of fairness, and relate them with each other. We also systematically study fair sampling problems (i.e., inputless functionalities) and discover three levels of complexity for them. Our results include the following: – Fair exchange cannot be securely reduced to the problem of fair cointossing by an r-round protocol, except w...

From Pirates to Patriots: Fair Use for Digital Media