Week 8 – Initiative ‘Royalty Free Music’
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (feat. Fresh Big Mouf) by CSWS is a very upbeat contemporised hip hop track I was enjoying the other day so it came as a surprised when I learnt that the music artists Mighty & High make can be licenced for users to work with for free. This means I would be able to use this song in any media creation I want to. It made me want to understand why these particular artists and many more established ones choose to make their music royalty free when they could be earning money from licensing like other high achieving artists do.
At first note, exposure- allowing the track to be used without individuals having to pay allows for a wider audience to hear the music, giving the band an overall wider exposure. “The CSWS has been featured (via Youtube partnerships) on the homepage of some of the most prestigious culture sites on the web. Buzzfeed, Gawker, ESPN, YouTube, Huffington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, TechCrunch, TheChive, etc. All totalled, and across platforms, CSWS’ music has been listened to over 150 million plays.” (CSWS Facebook biography) I doubt the artists would have had as many users playing their track if again it wasn’t for the complimentary licensing.
In a different light having the artists give free royalties also means that they create music because they believe in the music giving them a sense of authenticity and ‘realness’ that other artists in modern pop culture music seem to lack. Overall I am excited to be able to use this track in future creations and look forward to looking for more royalty free music that stems away from just the standard audio beats we hear within many Youtube videos.
Week 8 – Readings ‘Annotated Bibliography’
‘Privacy Risks in Mobile Dating Apps’
This article explores an in-depth analysis into the social media trend of dating apps and the privacy risks uses can encounter when participating with these platforms. The article suggests Proximity-based GSNs or ‘proximity systems’ and other GeoSocial apps that broadcast a user’s location can lead to potential invasions of privacy. The researches also explore the analysed use of Facebook login credentials as an authentication provider in which many applications can access to a user’s profile information including that which may be switched onto private. The article is useful to the research within our topic as it provides an in depth insight into the use of applications within wearable smartphone devices and the influx of these devices in modern society. It also examines the statistics within the number of users using the apps as well as which application use different proximity systems. The article is beneficial to our topic since it touches on an issue inherent to the subject of wearable devices.
The findings relate to how privacy on mobile dating apps is quite limited almost stating in half of the apps the article presents the researchers were able to recover messages sent or received by a user. The article also notes almost all of the applications mentioned leaked profile images to some extent. The overall summary being that in using GeoSocial dating apps, much of the data can be easily recovered even once deleted. This article had a personal interest to me as well having used many apps that involved GeoSocial retrieval of information. It makes me question which ones I would allow to have access and which could potentially be unsafe.
Farnden, J, Martini, B, Choo, K-K R, 2015. ‘Privacy Risks in Mobile Dating Apps’, University of South Australia, Association for Information Systems, pp. 13-15