Digital rights management

ANALYSIS Advantages As stated before, Digital Rights Management is very prominent in the entertainment business. DRM technologies are widely used in the music distribution business. The music industry in general has a fairly positive opinion about DRM as most music distributors claim that DRM help them safeguard their precious time and money investment. Since the music companies are being protected from piracy, they actually return profits out of their sales. This enables them to invest in future projects safely and with confidence. DRM tools also encourage more content creation from existing and past artists as well as encouraging new artists to begin their music career. Digital Rights Management tools such as the one mentioned in the coursework…

Here they are: 1. Write your eBook 2. Publish your eBook 3. Promote your eBook That’s it. Now each step takes some time to complete but each step is absolutely doable. Let’s take a more in-depth look at each of these three steps! How to Write Your eBook Writing your eBook is perhaps the most daunting part of the process. Breaking it down into steps will help you realize that it is doable! • Come up with an idea: The first thing you need to do when writing your eBook is to come up with an idea…

strengths which include: having ample descriptions about how the artifact looks like, and its function; having a proper introduction for my artifact and the culture that will be discussed; having a natural flow of organization. For example: Jake said “Honestly, everything you said has purpose for explaining your story. It is complete from start to finish”, and Tracy said “He used great supporting evidence about the effect EBooks are having on American culture using statistics and secondary…

The company pays back 70% of the money they earn per song back to the rights holders like labels, publishers, and distributers. Although Spotify has paid out over three billion dollars to these rights holders, the money gets divided unfairly among the record company itself and those who actually wrote the music and those who recorded it. Despite their recorded payout of 70%, the 30% the company retains is estimated to be worth $1.2 billion dollars from its 10 million paying subscribers alone.…

any store, physical or digital, without a group of buyers in place, you’re not going to move any merchandise. The single most tried and true method of driving traffic is with an email list. By building an email list, you’re creating a buyer base that hopefully won’t just be interested in your products, but become repeat customers. Unfortunately, you can’t just ask Amazon for a list of user emails;…

ITunes music (Apple) store entered into the music market in 2003. However, prior to Apple 's entry into the digital world of music, the industry was fighting this new wave of music getting released to customers. However, with Apple 's release of its iPod digital-media player (2001) and adding the iTunes Store in 2003, they became the gatekeeper of digital downloads. Consequently, they promptly became supreme inside this new swim lane of the music industry. The key player that allow this was…

Does the Sharing of Music Files Through the Internet Violate Copyright Laws? Michael Gibbons, October 6, 2015, Issue 6 Facts: The issue at hand is to determine if sharing music files through the internet violates copyright laws. It was found to be illegal to share music through the internet. In the case MGM Studios v. Grokster a unanimous decision was held that Grokster was to “be held liable for violating copyright laws by providing peer-to-peer file sharing software to the public,” (Katsh…

The MP3 business is taking off under the leadership of Kirsten Vander Hart, Cassie Morris, and Makayla Ashbaugh. Twisting Tunes took a deep dive but has been steadily increasing, showing great promise. • Performance o Twisting Tunes came off with a rough start. We sat at the bottom of the pack during the first quarter when our stock price was $16.79 when most people were at mid-thirties. We determined the issue was that we did not purchase the proper amount of materials causing us to lose a lot…

Digital readings may have its benefits comChallenges of reading in Digital Age Digital readings may have its benefits compared to printed readings. For example, digital readings such as e-books are useful for readers. According to Hanho Jeong (2012), two of the most popular reasons for using e-books include their “searchability” and the fact that they are available 24 hours a day. Readers can read anytime and at anywhere as well they want. Readers also can find specific content more efficiently…

searches provide additional value to the user. For the success of e-book readers it is necessary to target the audience based on usage and age groups as this will help us marketing our devices in different manner to them and earn maximum market. They are: • High usage users of age 35-50 who can use it to read subscriptions along with books. • Younger low usage users who will be using their smartphones frequently & e-book readers for reading books. Publishers & E-books: • E-books have opened a…