Use Of Sound Recordings Research Articles

Acoustic monitoring of carrion fly activity on human remains: a preliminary study

ABSTRACT We present the first study on the use of sound recordings to assess the activity of carrion flies as an alternative to labour intensive physical capture and identification with limited time resolution. Daily recordings were made of the fly activity on human cadavers in a simulated disaster scenario at the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER). The recordings were manually analysed for flight sounds and compared to the local environmental data. The results showed that the number of flight sounds was significantly affected by the temperature, daylight, and moderate to high rainfall but not by humidity. Reference recordings were also made of Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae), Flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), House flies (Diptera: Muscidae) and the Black Soldier flies (Stratiomyidae: Hermetia illucens) in a commercial fly farm and used to build a statistical classification model to test the feasibility of audio recognition for successional studies. Successional arrival and departure patterns were not observed for the recorded flies, although this could be the result of ineffective audio classification algorithm. Further in-depth studies are currently being done on different species and variations within the same species.

The Future of Music Copyright Collectives in the Digital Streaming Age

The Future of Music Copyright Collectives in the Digital Streaming Age

Rights Review for Sound Recordings: Strategies Using Risk and Fair Use Assessments

ABSTRACT The access and use of sound recordings in cultural heritage institutions is highly limited by multiple barriers including format degradation, obsolescence, and the difficulty of identifyin...

Neural Substrates of the Auditory Motion Aftereffect: A Functional MRI Study

The aim of this study was to identify cortical areas, which are responsible to perception of sound source approaching or withdrawing. Models of moving sound sources were presented to 7 healthy subjects while activity of their brain was traced by fMRI. It was found that during long-term 45 s sound stimulation additional areas of activation to that in control stimulation with pink noise were involved. There were frontal and parietal areas which perform the function of analysis of spatial information and also the region of the angular gyrus. Furthermore BOLD-signal in the areas remained to be enhanced after the end of adaptation to motion and decayed gradually within 30 s. Pilot experiments with use of sound recordings of human steps as auditory stimuli had shown the same areas of activation but with much stronger activation.

Pengaruh Terapi Ayat Al-Qu’an Terhadap Ansietas Pada Mahasiswa Yang Sedang Mengerjakan Skripsi Di STIKes Ceria Buana

Anxiety is an unpleasant feeling, uneasy, worried and agitated at students who are doing skripsi. Usually there are some efforts undertaken handling as psychotherapy, psikofarmaka, psychosocial, and psikoreligius. In this study, non-pharmacological therapy is used to reduce anxiety, one of them with distraction techniques and relaxation with the therapeutic use of sound recordings al-quran which dilbacakan by a qori. Ayat al-quran hormones can reduce stress hormones, activates natural endorphins, increases the feeling of relaxation and distraction of fear, anxiety and tension, improve the system of body chemistry that lowers blood pressure and slows respiration, heart rate, pulse, and brain wave activity. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is influence quran verses therapy for anxiety in students who are working on the thesis. This type of research is pre-experimental design with one group pretest-posttest. the study population is the entire nursing students working on theses. Samples in this study were 25 respondents taken by purposive sampling. The statistical test used was paired T-test with normal data distribution. The research result shows the distribution of data from the pretest and posttest on nursing students STIKes Ceria Buana experiencing anxiety is normal that value is -0.987 (pretest) and -0.129 (posttest). The change of pretest and posttest anxiety that have a significance level of p = 0.000 (p = <0.05). Al-quran verses therapy has an effect on anxiety in students who work on the thesis, this proves quran verses therapy can provide distraction and relaxation effect against anxiety. In understanding the impact verse the al-qur'an to the decrease of anxiety can be used as a non pharmacological management, it is advisable to further researchers can conduct research on the type of verse al-qur'an others.

Un]Happy Together: Why the Supremacy Clause Preempts State Law Digital Performance Rights in Radio-Like Streaming of Pre-1972 Sound Recordings

Lovers of the music of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Etta James, and hundreds of other recording artists whose records were made before February 15, 1972, may soon have a hard time hearing these great artists on any satellite or Internet radio service. Recently, two federal district courts have found that state laws were violated when satellite radio broadcaster Sirius XM Radio included pre-1972 sound recordings in its broadcasts without the owners’ permission, but these courts did not consider – and the parties did not argue – how the Supremacy Clause applies to those state law claims. This article argues that state laws purporting to grant digital performance rights to pre-1972 sound recordings are necessarily preempted by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution. This article contends that enforcement of those state laws would create a serious obstacle to “the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress” in enacting the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995 (“DPRA”). The DPRA reflects Congress’ careful balancing of interests and recognition of the need for an easily administrable system of licensing, which Congress established through a complex and comprehensive compulsory licensing system. The Supremacy Clause thus preempts all state laws purporting to require licenses for digital performance rights or payment of royalties for the use of such rights by Internet or satellite radio stations beyond what is expressly provided for in the compulsory licensing system established by the DPRA, because permitting countless owners of individual pre-1972 sound recordings to assert claims for royalties and other damages outside of the compulsory licensing system would frustrate Congress’ goals in establishing that system. Part I of this article provides a brief overview of the federal rights at issue and the (very) brief history of performance rights in sound recordings, noting the absence of any express state law recognition of a performance right in sound recordings throughout most of the 20th century (other than short-lived decisions in two states over seventy-five years ago that focused on notices stamped on records purporting to prohibit a purchaser’s use of sound recordings on radio rather than a true performance right). It is only in very recent cases that courts in New York and California have recognized state law performance rights. However, they did so without considering Supremacy Clause preemption or how any state law performance rights might conflict with the federal statutory compulsory license regime established by the DPRA.Part II of the article explains the relevant legislative history and provisions of the DPRA governing the comprehensive licensing system. That statutory license and rules governing it were established to provide an efficient mechanism for digital Internet and satellite radio services to operate in compliance with their legal obligations. In Part III, the article explains Supremacy Clause doctrine and distinguishes the Supreme Court’s opinion in Goldstein v. California, which rejected a Supremacy Clause challenge to a state record piracy law in 1973. It demonstrates why neither the Court’s decision in Goldstein nor the language of the Copyright Act’s express preemption clause, which exempts state laws governing pre-1972 sound recordings from statutory preemption, precludes conflict preemption under the Supremacy Clause in the context of digital radio services that are subject to the federal compulsory license.Part IV of the article acknowledges that preemption of state law protection for digital performances of pre-1972 sound recordings raises equitable concerns, as it leaves some of this nation’s most treasured musical artists uncompensated for use of their works by Internet and satellite streaming services while the authors of more current works are compensated. However, given the delicate balancing that has gone into Congress’ recognition of a limited digital performance right and creation of a compulsory statutory licensing system, any remedy for the inequity to owners of pre-1972 sound recordings must be left to Congress. Allowing individual courts in individual states to craft a patchwork of inconsistent remedies would disrupt the balance struck by Congress and interfere with the functioning of the compulsory license system for digital sound recording performances. This is a result that the Supremacy Clause does not permit.

Dancing without Music: Copyright and Australian Nightclubs

This article examines the two-year legal dispute between a major royalty collection body for Australian popular music composers, the PPCA (Phonographic Performance Company of Australia) and Australian music venue organizations concerning the license fees paid by venues for the use of sound recordings in nightclubs and dance party venues. I examine the court ruling (http//:www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/ACopy/T/20071.html) delivered in July 2007, drawing on my work as an expert witness and consultant for the PPCA throughout the case. As a court action that attracted considerable debate among DJs, musicians, and the music press, it raises important questions not just about the rates and methods of collecting performance royalties, but also the contribution of contemporary music to the health of night-time economies, and the difficulties in achieving a proper balance between composers' rights and maintaining a diversity of venue experiences and revenues. The case highlights a national example of an ongoing, international focus upon “secondary” rights as an increasingly important source of artist and recording company revenues.

Recovering Fair Use

Recovering Fair Use

Freedom's on the Wallaby

One of the more fortunate consequences of the centenary of the Australian Labor Party in 1991 was the 'Freedom's on the Wallaby' exhibition, which was on show at the National Library of Australia, Canberra from October 8, 1991 until January 31, 1992. The exhibition contained material from the Library's own collections, as well as from other libraries around the country. There were books, pamphlets, newspapers, letters, minutes of meetings, posters, election dodgers and photographs included in the display. Trade union ribbons and banners, with their splashes of red, green and gold, provided it with much colour while the use of sound recordings, some original and some re-creations, to reveal particular episodes in the Party's history, was an appealing method of presentation. Evatt's speech to the electors during the 1951 referendum campaign over the banning of the Communist Party, in which he appeals for a 'No' vote on the grounds of fairness and British justice, was particularly moving. Delivered in the Labor leader's gravelly tones, it belongs, in its style and content, to a political world that we have lost. Whilst the curator of the exhibition, Michael Richards, did not attempt a comprehensive coverage of the Party's history, he assembled an impressive variety of materials dealing with many aspects of the history of Australia's oldest political party. The title of the exhibition captured one of its important dimensions. 'Freedom on the Wallaby' is the title of a poem by Henry Lawson published in the Brisbane Worker during the shearers' strike of 1891. As a statement of defiance in the face of tyranny, it has entered into Labor folklore:

Session summaries

-Research in Canadian music: EMC 2d ed. -Copyright: Fair use of sound recordings: views of creators and users

Informed consent: what does it mean?

The editorial in the September 1982 issue of this journal and many articles before and since have addressed the problem of informed consent. Is it possible? Is it a useful concept? Is there anything new to be said about it? In this article the basic rationale of the rule (patient autonomy) is explained and the extent of the rule explored. Various exceptions have been offered by the law and an attempt is made to catalogue the chief of these. A number of specially vulnerable groups are then identified, the most important, and vexed, being children. How can informed consent be secured in the case of young patients? Finally, a few problems are mentioned in an attempt to get this subject back to reality. The appeal to the principle primum non nocere may be medical paternalism in disguise. Informed consent is the competing principle that reminds us of the primacy of human autonomy. A pointer is given to the future: even the use of sound recordings to explain medical procedures and to activate informed consent so that it may become a reality and not just a lawyer's myth, should be considered.

The Place of Sound within the Learning Systems at Millfield

Abstract This article reports an account of the work that has been carried out within the Educational Resources Faculty at Millfield School involving the use of sound recordings in group and individual learning systems. A brief description of the systems developed for departments is presented together with information on the Resources for Learning Centre. The paper concentrates upon the advantages for the pupil in the use of this approach and the effects upon the role of the teacher.

The Use of Sound Recordings in Group Therapy

The Use of Sound Recordings in Group Therapy