This is a collaborative submission from a group of academics based in the UK with expertise in information technology law and related areas. The preparation of this response has been funded by the Information Technology Think Tank, which is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by the SCRIPT/AHRC Centre for Research in Intellectual Property and Technology, University of ...

Popular music plays a central role in the lives of millions of people. It motivates beginners, engages experienced musicians, and plays both functional (e.g. churches) and non-functional (e.g. music festivals) roles in many contexts. Forming and maintaining a popular music ensemble can be challenging, particularly for part-time musicians who face other demands on their time. Where an ensemble h...

Despite the increasing popularity of cloud-based music services, few studies have examined how users select and utilize these services, how they manage and access their music collections in the cloud, and the issues or challenges they are facing within these services. In this paper, we present findings from an online survey with 198 responses collected from users of commercial cloud music servi...

Underground (yeraltı) bir kültürden gelen elektronik dans müziğinin (EDM) gelişimini incelendiğimizde son yıllarda festivaller sayesinde ana akım haline geldiğini söyleyebiliriz. EDM, Türkiye’de geç tanınmasına rağmen Disk Jokey’ler ve prodüktörler aracılığıyla zaman içerisinde aktif izler kitle oluşturmayı başarmıştır. 1990’larda radyolar ülkemize girerek, on yılda sayısı artan partiler yoluyl...

The digital music is booming through rapid expansion of Internet. Users can listen to their favorite songs via web all the time. The electronic commercial leads to development of the recommendation system, which enhances the desire of music buying for customers. The online music recommendation system usually grabs the historical record from past listeners. With extensive data analysis or statis...

When human beings make or listen to music, they regularly draw on analogies to other forms of knowledge and embody how they feel through their own body. Research on interactive music systems has gradually shifted from “dialogue” between human and computer to information retrieval, thus posing the risk of commodifying and reifying the encounter with technology [1]. On the contrary, recent advanc...