Most of the alternative revenue streams proposed by commentators (including touring, adverting and merchandizing) had been feasible and actually in existence long before the advent of the digital age. But they used to play more of a secondary role in music businesses until uncontrolled online piracy recently started to undermine music sales. This fact suggests a straightforward yet undervalued ...

This paper presents a framework for detecting spirited incidental music that is often accompanied with highlighted parts of a movie. A speech/music discrimination module is first developed to tell clips with speech or music apart. Then spirited music models are trained and used to classify the clips with incidental music into spirited or smooth ones. This two-stage framework facilitates automat...

In this study, the critical thinking dispositions of post-RN (post-diploma) nurses continuing their education at a mid-sized university were measured before and after the intervention of a three-credit online course. The tool used to measure the changes in critical thinking disposition was the California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTDI). There were no statistically significant i...

We present a new model of speech motor control (TD-SFC) based on articulatory goals that explicitly incorporates acoustic sensory feedback using a framework for state-based control. We do this by combining two existing, complementary models of speech motor control – the Task Dynamics model [1] and the State Feedback Control model of speech [2]. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the combined m...

Music classification is a key ingredient for electronic music distribution. Because of the lack of standards in music classification – or the lack of enforcement of existing standards – there is a huge amount of unclassified titles of music in the world. In this paper we propose a method of classification based on musical data mining techniques that uses co-occurrence and correlation analysis f...

Increasingly, digital media is becoming more accessible with online music stores such as iTunes gaining popularity at an ever-increasing rate. People with large digital collections are often faced with the tedious task of music organisation. Traditionally people have used manual playlists, filters that act on the meta data stored in compressed files such as artist/album and genre classification...

Streaming music services represent the music industry’s greatest prospective source of revenue and are well established among consumers. This paper presents a theory of a streaming music business model consisting of two types of services provided by a monopolist. The first service, which offers access free of charge, is of low quality and financed by advertising. The second service charges its ...

Although digital rights management (DRM) has gained increasing importance in today’s digital services and electronic commerce, it is not addressed explicitly in the Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) specification. In this paper, we propose a digital rights management system (RMS) that is integrated into IOTP for electronic commerce applications and services. We introduce a rights insertion ...

The music industry is facing a challenging time where, due to information technology, artists are striving to succeed in an environment where consumers can obtain music for free. To survive in this environment, online music providers must rethink the way they do business. Incorporating into their strategies a greater involvement in social progress by allowing a charitable partner to get a share...

Even if bandwidth on the Internet is limited, compression technologies have made online music piracy a foremost problem in intellectual copyright protection. However, due to significantly larger sizes of video files, movies are still largely pirated by duplicating DVDs, VCDs, and other physical media. In the case of DVDs, movie studios have historically maintained different technology codes or ...