Global Media COMM458

Group

Julie Jones
Jacque LaCroix
Allison Coggins
Liz Knol


Digital priacy has posed significant problems for the recording industry with new technologies empowering the user to copy, distribute and exhibit music without having to pay the high costs for CDs charged by the industry's Big 5. As a result, the industry responded by issuing law suits, purchased offending companies, and introduced technological enhanced products that are designed to protect copyright and the companies' extensive profits.

While the emergence of online music providers iTunes has provided ways for people to download music and protext copyright, the ethical and moral issues continue to exist for the industry, artists and users over copyright, particular as movies and television programs have become the next frontier for digital downloads.

Your task is to examine the issues surrounding digital music and answer the following questions in preparation for your presentation:

1. What position does the Big 5 music media companies take in relation to copyright and digital music and how does this differ in relation to independent artists and some users?
2. What ethical and moral issues exist in relation to the different positions these stakeholders have over issues of copyright?
3. What implications do these issues have for the movie and television industry as video streaming becomes more of a reality over the Internet?
4. What impact will "The Secure Digital Music Initiative" (see McCourt and Burkart) have on the distribution and exhibition of movies and television programming in the online environment?

The following resources will help get you started:

http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5161871.html

http://news.com.com/RIAA+steps+up+file-trading+suits/2100-1027_3-5160262.html?tag=st.rn

http://news.com.com/Court+RIAA+lawsuit+strategy+illegal/2100-1027_3-5129687.html?tag=st.rn

http://www.halexandria.org/dward667.htm

http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=140&subsecID=289&contentID=252145

Deadline: Saturday, November 11 at 5pm.

Group 6:

Jody Warner
Marcie McSwane
Daniel Ebert
Trisha Morrow


A RECENT report indicated that the Bush Administration had funded a Homeland Security initiative that would see $2.4m spent on developing "sentiment analysis" software. This initiative would allow the government's "security organs" to sift through millions of news articles for "negative opinions of the United States or its leaders in newspapers and other publications overseas". The software would be developed by academics in some of the US's leading institutions, including Texas A&M University.

Your task is to critical assess this development through the following questions:

1. What are the key objectives in developing the sentiment analysis software?
2. How will the information gathered from these searches be used in relation to security?
3. What concerns are raised in relation to freedom of speech, civil liberties and privacy that reflect similar issues foudn in the US government-Google wranglings over access to user information?
4. What implications does this software development have for the roles and responsibilities of the media?
5. How will sentiment analysis impact on the delicate balance between government, media and society?

Resources:

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10C1EF73F540C778CDDA90994DE404482

http://www.rense.com/general73/crtic.htm

http://www.alias-i.com/lingpipe/demos/tutorial/sentiment/read-me.html

http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/111704/Software_sorts_out_subjectivity_111704.html

http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/comment/2159993/search-moves-notch-emotional

Due Date: November 9, 5pm

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