scholarly journals Blockchain-Based Smart Propertization of Digital Content for Intellectual Rights Protection

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1387
Author(s):  
Nam-Yong Lee ◽  
Jinhong Yang ◽  
Chul-Soo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Digital Content ◽  
Digital Piracy ◽  
Service Market ◽  
The Public ◽  
Threat Analysis ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
New Type ◽  
Winner Takes All ◽  
Service Ecosystem

Several platform companies have been successful in competing with digital piracy by producing consumer-friendly services. Nowadays, however, the digital content service market has become more monopolized than ever, which forms barriers to the entry of new platform companies. The platform monopoly would cause considerable problems both to content providers and consumers as it limits the choice of consumers. To remove the platform monopoly in digital content markets, we propose a public blockchain-based digital content service method. The proposed method encrypts the digital content to a self-decryptable form, which we call Smart Propertized Digital Content (SPDC), and utilizes the decentralization and traceability of the public blockchain to provide a non-monopolistic ecosystem for the management and distribution of the SPDC license. The proposed method can be more beneficial both to content creators and users than the current winner-takes-all platform model. For instance, users can download SPDC once and play many times without requesting the decryption key, and SPDC owners can make SPDC licenses to be time-limited, device-limited, resellable, or terminated without resorting to help from other intermediaries. We conducted the threat analysis on the proposed method by examining possible attacks in various scenarios. Based on threat analysis, we conclude that the proposed method can provide a new type of digital content service ecosystem that can be operated in a completely decentralized way and neutrally beneficial to all participants.

First Writings for the Stage (1580s)

2021 ◽  
pp. 334-351
Author(s):  
David G. Burton
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Lope De Vega ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Type ◽  
Comedia Nueva

In the 1580s, Cervantes turned to writing for the stage in pursuit of a career as a professional playwright, capitalizing on the popularity of the public theatres and the lucrative trade it produced. However, after a modicum of success his career was soon thwarted by the comedia nueva and the advent of Lope de Vega in the late-1580s would take that obsession to a national level. This chapter explores the first stage of Cervantes’s writing career prior to this new type of play establishing a monopoly on the tastes of the paying public.

scholarly journals Implementing Fully Privately Run Public Schools: Top View

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.15) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Sheikh Muhamad Hizam Sheikh Khairuddin ◽  
Kamaruzzaman Ismail ◽  
Zalina Zainudin
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
School Efficiency ◽  
The Public ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Regulatory Bodies ◽  
New Type ◽  
Top View ◽  
Type Of School

The aim of this paper is to identify the perceptions of teachers and regulators in implementing fully privately run public schools (FPRPS) in Malaysia. Under the Malaysian Educational Blueprint (MEB) 2013 - 2025, it is clearly stated that the programs and activities that would encourage and allow parents, the public and private sectors, NGOs, and society to forge a partnership with the school will benefit especially concerning values education. These school community partnerships can be related to the ninth shift in the Blueprint which is “partnering with parents, community and private sector at scale,” although, the emphasis of this shift is more on students’ academic progress. This study was conducted for three months’ periods, involving 87 teachers and principals (in 13 schools) in the districts of Petaling Utama, Wilayah Bangsar-Pudu and Hulu Langat and 23 regulators in 10 Regulatory Bodies. The method used was in the form of focus group discussion (FGD). The data was processed by using Atlas ti. From the interviews conducted on FPRPS, all of the respondents (i.e. teachers, principals and regulators) indicated that they are ready and willing to accept the FPRPS implementation. This is because FPRS offers huge potential benefits to them. These include improvement in students’ skill, teacher training, academic performance, employability, financial support, infrastructures, facilities, security, maintenance, workload, and school efficiency. The study contributes to the development of a new type of school in Malaysia. 

scholarly journals Washington Hotline

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (11) ◽  
pp. 633
Author(s):  
Shawnda Hines
Keyword(s):  
Digital Content ◽  
World Conference ◽  
The Public ◽  
Book World ◽  
Digital Book ◽  
Local Campaigns

ALA leads national #eBooksForAll campaignAccess to digital content has long been a sore spot for libraries. When Macmillan Publishers announced an eight-week embargo on new eBook titles sold to libraries, the public outcry was extraordinary. In response, ALA launched the #eBooksForAll petition campaign at the Digital Book World conference in September. Coverage of libraries proliferated in news outlets across the country as more and more library systems led their own local campaigns to oppose Macmillan’s new policy. Just days before the embargo took effect on November 1, 2019, ALA hand delivered more than 160,000 signatures to CEO John Sargent.

NEW POWER-PUBLIC COMMUNICATIVISM AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
M.A. CHEKUNOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Russian Federation

The purpose of the article is to consider the influence of the processes of digital transformation of society on the change of the model of power and public communications. The positions and arguments of technological optimists and alarmists on the prospects for the development or involution of democracy in the context of further digitalization are considered. Scenario variants of the political consequences of the "digital revolution"are presented. A special place is given to the analysis of the discourse, catalyzed by anti-covid events, around the problem of a new type of totalitarianism. The author, pointing to the opportunities of digitalization that are favorable for the development of power and public relations, also notes the risks associated with it for the political sphere. As a result of the research, the author suggests two main directions of digital transformation in the field of political communication in the medium term: 1) creative, enhancing the effectiveness of dialogue communications between the authorities and the public (including through the implementation of the national project "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation"), 2) destructive, forming the language of hostility in society and the activity of anonymous political trolls that generate conflict.

The Role of Annual Reports in Ensuring Accountability

2018 ◽  
pp. 446-469
Author(s):  
Tolga Demirbas
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Specific Region ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
The Public ◽  
Great Pressure ◽  
New Type ◽  
Development Agencies

Regional development agencies (RDAs) are governance-based institutions that aim to help a specific region to socioeconomically develop by ensuring cooperation among the public sector, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations within that specific geographical region. In Turkey, which was not able to eliminate the regional differences via centralized policies, development agencies (DAs) were established as “the new-type organizations of public management” in the early 2000s. Taking part in regional development that is a vital area and not having a usual organization have increased the expectations from these agencies. Today, there is a great pressure on DAs concerning their accountability. The best way to understand the level of accountability of DAs that have an approximately 10-year history is to analyze the annual reports they have to announce to the public. This chapter carries out a content analysis on disclosure items in the annual reports of 25 DAs in Turkey and examines their level of accountability to their stakeholders.

On the Dynamic Mechanism of Developing Recycling Economy for Enterprises in China

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Huiqiang Cheng ◽  
Xiang-Yun Du
Keyword(s):  
Economic Behavior ◽  
The Public ◽  
Behavior Development ◽  
Recycling Economy ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Government ◽  
Economic Growth Mode ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Government Promotion ◽  
Sticking Point

Recycling economy, as a new type of development model and economic growth mode, will form a social resultant force in government promotion, enterprise entities and public participation. Thus, it is quite necessary to discuss on the economic behavior, development restriction and profit motive of the Government, enterprises and the public as the micro-economic entities. Especially in the process of current recycling economic development of China, the sticking point for further development and achievement of Chinese recycling economy lies so much on how to enhance the intrinsic dynamics of the enterprises for developing the recycling economy.

scholarly journals The Establishment of China's New Type Rural Social Insurance Pension: A Process Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-147
Author(s):  
Matthias Stepan ◽  
Quan Lu
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Central Government ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Income Security ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Development ◽  
New Type ◽  
Process Perspective

This study explores the processes and outcomes of the public policy reforms from 2002 to 2014, targeting income security among the elderly for a segment of the Chinese population that was increasingly marginalised throughout the 1990s: the rural population. The authors reconstruct the policy process from 2002 until 2014 that led to the establishment of the New Type Rural Social Insurance Pension and assess its impact on providing adequate and sustainable old-age income. One particular focus is the study of the influence of international actors. Yet, as key to the success of the initiative, the authors identify the decisive support of the central level leadership, which facilitated the process by announcing a new development model and providing earmarked transfers from the central government. Despite the improvements in the income security of elderly rural Chinese, questions remain about the Chinese pension system's long-term sustainability and the influence of the system's fragmentation on social mobility and equality.

Out of sight, out of mind? Supplier spatial proximity in French public procurement

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 486-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Mamavi ◽  
Haithem Nagati ◽  
Frederick T. Wehrle ◽  
Gilles Pache
Keyword(s):  
Public Procurement ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Management Competencies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Feature Evaluation ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of spatial proximity on supplier selection in the French public sector. While French public procurement legislation forbids consideration of supplier location in the procurement process, public contractors may still rely on spatial proximity for complex transactions necessitating mutual adjustments with suppliers. Design/methodology/approach – Using French Official Journals (BOAMP), the authors compiled 565,557 transactions completed on three public procurement markets between 6,182 contractors and 26,570 suppliers, over a period of six years (between 2006 and 2011). The authors conducted a two-level hierarchical linear auto-regression analysis and a feature evaluation analysis for all transactions. Findings – The paper finds significant variation between the transactions on different markets: a negative effect of spatial proximity on the number of contract notices in the public market and a positive effect of spatial proximity on the number of notices in the services and supplies markets. The difference lies in the levels of mutual adjustment required to optimally manage the relationship between public contractor and supplier. Research limitations/implications – The research is based on an econometric analysis conducted uniquely in the French context, which calls into question the external validity of the results obtained. The study also rests on segmentation into three aggregate markets, which might be considered too general. Originality/value – Rather than analyze public contractors’ perceptions of the importance of the criterion of spatial proximity, the paper examines 565,557 actual transactions. The results point to the emergence of a new type of relationship with certain suppliers, which should lead public contractors to integrate relationship management competencies, in addition to legal and economic competencies, in the organization of calls for tenders.

Requirements for private communications over public spheres

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-96
Author(s):  
Konstantina Vemou ◽  
Maria Karyda
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Personal Communications ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Privacy Requirements ◽  
Threat Analysis ◽  
Privacy Threats

Purpose In the Web 2.0 era, users massively communicate through social networking services (SNS), often under false expectations that their communications and personal data are private. This paper aims to analyze privacy requirements of personal communications over a public medium. Design/methodology/approach This paper systematically analyzes SNS services as communication models and considers privacy as an attribute of users’ communication. A privacy threat analysis for each communication model is performed, based on misuse scenarios, to elicit privacy requirements per communication type. Findings This paper identifies all communication attributes and privacy threats and provides a comprehensive list of privacy requirements concerning all stakeholders: platform providers, users and third parties. Originality/value Elicitation of privacy requirements focuses on the protection of both the communication’s message and metadata and takes into account the public–private character of the medium (SNS platform). The paper proposes a model of SNS functionality as communication patterns, along with a method to analyze privacy threats. Moreover, a comprehensive set of privacy requirements for SNS designers, third parties and users involved in SNS is identified, including voluntary sharing of personal data, the role of the SNS platforms and the various types of communications instantiating in SNS.

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