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Music 2025 : The Music Data Dilemma: issues facing the music industry in improving data management

© Crown Copyright 2019Music 2025ʼ investigates the infrastructure issues around the management of digital data in an increasingly stream driven industry. The findings are the culmination of over 50 interviews with high profile music industry representatives across the sector and reflects key issues as well as areas of consensus and contrasting views. The findings reveal whilst there are great examples of data initiatives across the value chain, there are opportunities to improve efficiency and interoperability

Share and Share Alike : The challenges from social media for Intellectual Property Rights

Dennis Collopy, 'Share and Share Alike: The challenges from social media for Intellectual Property Rights', report commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office, published September 2017, under the Open Government License https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/. The published version is available online at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/share-and-share-alike. © Crown Copyright 2017.The report was commissioned to estimate recent levels of counterfeiting within the UK. To understand the extent to which this is moving online, and gauge how it is helped to do so by social media platforms. The study aimed to assess the scale, impact and characteristics of infringements. This covers six sectors: alcohol, cigarettes, clothing, footwear, perfume and watches

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Peter Tschmuck. Editorial, International Journal of Music Business Research, Vol. 3 (2), October 2014.This October 2014 issue of the International Journal of Music Business Research opens with the award-winning paper from the 4th Vienna Music Business Research Days 2013. In this Francisco Bernardo & Luís Gustavo Martins of the Catholic University of Portugal in Porto pose the crucial question of whether, in the digital age, disintermediation is re-shaping the music industry and fostering independent approaches to the market. Aspects of Bernardo & Martins' article are echoed in the subsequent paper by O'Hare entitled, "Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Music Business Education". The author argues these days a music business education is essential to achieve success in the music business. The third article in this volume is a contribution by Beatrice Jetto of the University of Technology and Notre Dame University in Sydney, Australia. In this she focuses on the relationship between music blogs and the music industry by analysing 18 semi-structured interviews with bloggers specialising in music.Peer reviewedFinal Published versio

Measuring Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights

© Crown Copyright 2014. You may re-use this information (excluding logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence. To view this licence, visit http://www.nationalarchives.gov. uk/doc/open-government-licence/ Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concernedThe review is wide-ranging in scope and overall our findings evidence a lack of appreciation among those producing research for the high-level principles of measurement and assessment of scale. To date, the approaches adopted by industry seem more designed for internal consumption and are usually contingent on particular technologies and/or sector perspectives. Typically, there is a lack of transparency in the methodologies and data used to form the basis of claims, making much of this an unreliable basis for policy formulation. The research approaches we found are characterised by a number of features that can be summarised as a preference for reactive approaches that look to establish snapshots of an important issue at the time of investigation. Most studies are ad hoc in nature and on the whole we found a lack of sustained longitudinal approaches that would develop the appreciation of change. Typically the studies are designed to address specific hypotheses that might serve to support the position of the particular commissioning body. To help bring some structure to this area, we propose a framework for the assessment of the volume of infringement in each different area. The underlying aim is to draw out a common approach wherever possible in each area, rather than being drawn initially to the differences in each field. We advocate on-going survey tracking of the attitudes, perceptions and, where practical, behaviours of both perpetrators and claimants in IP infringement. Clearly, the nature of perpetrators, claimants and enforcement differs within each IPR but in our view the assessment for each IPR should include all of these elements. It is important to clarify that the key element of the survey structure is the adoption of a survey sampling methodology and smaller volumes of representative participation. Once selection is given the appropriate priority, a traditional offline survey will have a part to play, but as the opportunity arises, new technological methodologies, particularly for the voluntary monitoring of online behaviour, can add additional detail to the overall assessment of the scale of activity. This framework can be applied within each of the IP right sectors: copyright, trademarks,patents, and design rights. It may well be that the costs involved with this common approach could be mitigated by a syndicated approach to the survey elements. Indeed, a syndicated approach has a number of advantages in addition to cost. It could be designed to reduce any tendency either to hide inappropriate/illegal activity or alternatively exaggerate its volume to fit with the theme of the survey. It also has the scope to allow for monthly assessments of attitudes rather than being vulnerable to unmeasured seasonal impacts

A Review of the ACHS Clinical Indicator Program after 20 years

The Clinical Indicator Program, which was introduced into the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards’ accreditation program two decades ago, has grown from one set addressed by 115 healthcare organisations to 22 sets with data received from over 800 healthcare organisations, resulting in a national database which is unique in its clinical diversity, reflecting every major medical discipline involved in hospital practice. The process for Clinical Indicator selection and review remains with the providers of the care, but the selection criteria are better defined and the evidence base strengthened. Early responses to their introduction were encouraging as improvements in patient management and outcomes were sought and achieved following review of comparative data, and some examples of these are provided. Clinical Indicator revision remains an important and major task and the original Hospital- Wide set of Clinical Indicators is now in its 12th version. The development and use of Clinical Indicators is increasing world-wide, and in Australia there are other organisations, including the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, looking at Clinical Indicators to further understand the performance of healthcare organisations. As clinical care changes, the challenges for the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards are to ensure the Clinical Indicators continue to reflect current practice, to retain clinician support, and also to ensure that the existence of its extensive and long-standing national clinical database is more widely known and utilised. Abbreviations: ACHS: Australian Council of Healthcare Standards; ACIR – Australasian Clinical Indicator Report; ANZICS – Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society; APD – Adult Patient Database; CI – Clinical Indicators; HCO – HealthCare Organisation; PIRT – Performance Indicator Reporting Tool; RACMA - Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators

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The International Journal of Music Business Research (IJMBR) tackles a broad range and variety of music business research topics. Its main purpose and aim is to address issues impacting the music industry and the music economy from a number of perspectives and using a variety of different disciplines. The variety of the contributions within the IJMBR is readily apparent. In this issue that diversity covers the new options available to three of the key creative players in the music industry: the artists/music creators, businesses and their customers. Each article highlights how the creation of value from each perspective has been fundamentally altered because of the changing role of users/consumersPeer reviewe

Music Experience and Behaviour in Young People : Winter 2012-2013 [2011 National Survey]

Originality: This research represents the third instalment of the first major UK academic study of its kind investigating the online music consumption habits of 14-24 year olds. Commercial organisations have historically provided both the music industry and government such information however, this is the first such research originating from an academic institution. This report is the third of three annual research surveys (2008, 2009 and 2011) and was based on a large-scale survey of approximately 1800 UK respondents which included a representative mix of all ages within the target demographic. The respondents for the survey were sourced via YouGov, youth groups, secondary schools and universities across the UK as well as through media and social networks. This research work is also included in the first ever longitudinal academic survey (2008-2011) exploring the online consumption habits of 14-24 year olds in the UK. Significance: This work was not commissioned by UK Music however, it will use the findings of this report as it engages with government on policy issues relating intellectual property and copyright infringement. Its constituents (PRS for Music, PPL, BPI, BASCA, MPA, MPG, MMF, MU, and AIM) as in previous surveys will also use its findings to shape policy and guide its members. It is anticipated that UKMusic’s constituents will use this research to help steer through this unprecedented time of change in the industry especially in matters relating to consumption habits and the formulation of new business models. Previous reports have attracted coverage in more than 250 news sources internationally and it is expected that the findings from this report will have a similar response. Rigour: Conservative criterion will be applied to data analysis to retain power and minimise bias and standard academic methodology applied to the analysi

Editorial: International Journal of Music Business Research, Vol 5(1) April 2016

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