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In the era of the Broadband Society, cloud journalism, and streaming, the film industry is trying to modify traditional distribution channels. The adaptation of literary classics was one of the most widespread practices to obtain well-known, quality material for new productions. The objective of this research is to understand empirically what differences are involved in industry’s major production and distribution companies’ choice between adapting preexisting material or creating an entirely new film, as well as the benefits of adaptations. The methodology is comparative and quantitative, consisting of collecting data on films from the five major distributors (Universal, Warner Bros, Disney, Sony, and Paramount) from 2010 to 2019 and analyzing variables to detect market trends related to adaptations during that decade. We observed a higher percentage of adaptations as well as correlations between adaptations and film genre, distributor and genre, adaptations and awards, awards and genre, and genre and the film’s evaluation, as well as between distributor and average budget, adaptations and budget, adaptation and opening weekend box office takings, genre and profit, adaptations and worldwide box office revenues, ratings and worldwide box office takings, and awards and worldwide box office takings; however, this was not observed between adaptation and profit and the breakeven point. It is concluded that, despite the fact that the trend of using this practice has not increased in recent years, it provides a great advantage compared with debuting new intellectual property. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on expectation confirmation research, we develop hypotheses regarding the effect of compensation on key customer outcomes following a major data breach and consequent service recovery effort. Data were collected in a longitudinal field study of Sony customers during their data breach in 2011. A total of 144 customers participated in the two-phase data collection that began when the breach was announced and concluded after reparations were made. Using polynomial modeling and response surface analysis, we demonstrate that a modified assimilation–contrast model explained perceptions of service quality and continuance intention and a generalized negativity model explained repurchase intention. The results of our work contribute to research on data breaches and service failure by demonstrating the impacts of compensation on customer outcomes. We discuss theoretical and practical implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reviews the use of mirrorless systems in medical photography, based on the author's experience using Sony mirrorless systems. It is not aimed at being an in depth comparative technical review but aims to discuss the technology as a viable alternative to the digital single lens reflex (DSLR) when documenting the most common subjects a medical photographer will face. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

International standardisation contributes to market expansion. The standardisation also leads to the rapid spread of the technology and allows easy entry for many competitors into the market. This often leads to severe price erosion, with the result that a company which develops business opportunities from innovation fails to profit therefrom. This paper examines the way in which Sony could succeed in profiting from the business of 130 mm MO media in spite of the fact that the media was standardised. A key factor for the success is a strategy of repeated 'open' and 'narrow' approaches. One approach is to build an entry barrier by creating a market in demand for highly reliable media. The other approach is periodic introduction of a new generation of the media with double capacity and its periodic standardisation. The market, which is once open to competitors through standardisation, is narrowed again by the aforementioned strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article challenges the conventional wisdom that cyber operations have limited coercive value. It theorizes that cyber operations contribute to coercion by imposing costs and destabilizing an opponent’s leadership. As costs mount and destabilization spreads, the expected utility of capitulation surpasses that of continued defiance, leading the opponent’s leaders to comply with the coercer’s demands. The article applies this ‘cost-destabilization’ model to the 2014 North Korean cyber operation against Sony. Through cost imposition and leadership destabilization, the North Korean operation, despite its lack of physical destructiveness, caused Sony to make a series of costly decisions to avoid future harm. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

El 19 de septiembre de 2016 Sony CSL, compañía desarrolladora de software, anunció la creación de la primera obra musical cuya titularidad adjudica a inteligencia artificial. El artículo analiza las consecuencias jurídicas de tal afirmación, así como los límites conceptuales y legales dentro del universo de derechos de autor, lo anterior con la finalidad de dilucidar si estamos en presencia de una nueva figura jurídico-autoral que invite a reflexionar sobre los sujetos de protección de nuestras leyes, o bien si aún estamos a una distancia razonable en que la normatividad aplicable resuelva la titularidad de derechos a favor de la inteligencia artificial en vez de hacerlo a favor de las personas jurídicas

Hay muchas razones para pensar que el ambiente organizativo, legal, económico, comercial y cultural existente en muchas de nuestras naciones, no favorece todo lo posible el surgimiento y desarrollo de pequeñas empresas; que puedan evolucionar desde la micro y pequeña organización, hasta variantes mayores; y así crear la necesaria riqueza y consecuentemente los empleos requeridos, para que la prosperidad beneficie a los sectores no siempre favorecidos de nuestras sociedades. Debido a ello, nuestras economías devienen “economías de timbiriches”, con miles de empresas que nunca crecen, y que malamente permiten alimentarse a sus dueños. Se presentan aquí algunas prácticas empresariales dignas de ser conocidas, aquellas que las llevaron de ser microempresas al borde de la desaparición, a lo que son hoy. Se tratará de destacar éxitos, pero también errores. De la misma manera, se darán pautas para que nuestras empresas puedan surgir de una manera positiva, alternando resultados buenos y malos para tener como un punto de partida en nuestras empresas.

Perspectives on Russian television focus mainly on state controlled networks. Russia, however, also has several important commercial televisions stations to whom little attention has been given. The most important of these stations is the entertainment network STS. The station was founded in 1996 when a subscription station AMTV merged with Saint Petersburg based broadcaster Channel Six and several regional stations to form Russia's fifth national broadcaster. After airing primarily Hollywood and Latin American series in the 1990s, the station began to produce Russian language series in 2003. Today the station is one of the most important entertainment brands in the former Soviet Union. This paper traces the history of STS and its importance in bringing new genres and production techniques to Russia. It also maps the network's explosive growth in the 2000s and its relationship with major Hollywood studios, most notably Sony. The influence of the station's two most important executives Alexander Rodanyansky and Vyacheslav Murugov is also examined. The paper then theorizes on what STS' current strategy may yield and what its current programs suggest about the changing nature of the Russian television market in an increasingly politicized environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on Hannah Hamad's concept of postfeminist masculinity, this article analyzes how the animated filmsChicken Little(Disney, 2005) andCloudy with a Chance of Meatballs(Sony, 2009) construct postfeminist fatherhood in opposition to two traditional stereotypes: the emotionally distant authoritarian and the bumbling pal. In contrast to films from the 1980s and 1990s, in which sons struggle to live up to their fathers’ expectations, these films demand a change in paternal attitudes, requiring fathers to adapt to their sons’ needs instead. The article argues that the films offer a didactic message to fathers as well as sons, which suggests that in postfeminist fatherhood older parenting models are no longer viable, and a new culture of fatherhood is needed, which may offer a way of challenging hegemonic masculinity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Topics include hackers attacking the Internet naming authority, a new Bluetooth version offering online connectivity and showing promise for the Internet of Things, companies looking for ways to enable mobile apps to communicate with one another, the US planning the world's most powerful supercomputer, a set of prosthetic arms that users can control with their thoughts, hackers hitting a German steel factory and a South Korean nuclear power plant, NASA using apes as the model for a disaster-response robot, Sony inventing a system that converts regular glasses into smart spectacles, researchers finding a critical flaw in an important cloud technology, a new approach letting cellular towers function like inexpensive radar, and a program teaching California prisoners to program. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There's nothing about the recent Sony hack that withstands close scrutiny. The story began as bunk, took a spin around blather and hooey, and then seems to have come to rest on drivel. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

No matter what the national context, the question of how to understand the impact of government programmes, particularly in terms of value for money, has emerged as a complex problem to be solved by social scientific management. This article engages with these trends in two ways. It focuses on the UK to understand how these tools and technologies are used for valuing objects and practices. By showing the rationality for using these techniques for understanding culture, it creates a link between studies of cultural policy and broader questions facing the arts and humanities. The article’s second contribution is to our understanding of the role and function of arts and humanities by showing, in the British example, how a true understanding of the value of culture is impossible without the disciplines and fields that are currently peripheral to both government social science and, more broadly, higher education in the UK. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Topics include new technology that promises to revolutionize Web development, Hewlett-Packard's plan to reinvent the computer, a Microsoft antimalware operation that took innocent companies offline, a US Supreme Court decision that has sparked fear for cloud services' future, a malware campaign that threatened big companies in several countries, a new technology that "increases" wireless bandwidth, a report that indicates a slowdown in supercomputer performance growth, virtual reality coming to gaming, tech companies hardening their systems to fend off government spying, and movie theaters banning Google Glass. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The adoption of new technology in Japan, despite its international reputation as a high tech nation and culture has not been a smooth progression, nor has Japan always led the world. There have been leaps forward and times of stagnation. In fact I mean to show how Japan has fallen back and needs to reinvigorate its approach to technology, particularly in regards to education and tablet PCs, an area in which Japan has fallen far behind. In both corporate and government policy, Japan is capable of leaps forward but can get bogged down in a slow and steady incremental approach at times. I will propose a path forward for education media here, a field that is still stuck in paper publishing while most of the world moves into digital. A much more open model based on open principles. (Note; Due to the fast changing nature of this issue, this article includes updated information since the summer 2011 conference in Romania.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article identifies four economic tendencies that shaped the development of the international recorded music industry since 1945: the importance of endogenous sunk costs led to a quality race; the fact that marginal revenue equalled marginal profit led to extreme vertical integration; the quasi-public good character of music--its non-diminishability but partial excludability--led to a sharply unequal income distribution among stars and the pioneering of new business models to transform consumer into producer surplus; and finally, the project-based character of music production led to decentralized agglomeration. What can be characterized as rights-based multinationals emerged as a response to these forces. They married extreme vertical integration and a portfolio of A&R labels having limited economies of scale and scope, with a global distribution and marketing machine. This article tries to explain how they emerged and how they can explain increasing industrial concentration in the face of sharp growth of the market and of musical diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In developing countries, where traditional publishing faces enormous challenges, digital may work as an accelerator that could help local actors to skip a stage and position themselves at a much more advanced level. However, for domestic players to really benefit from the electronic era, it will be essential for them not to adopt systems implanted from outside on an as is basis, but rather to invest in new models better suited for the local people's expectations and requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The combination of Japan's large, prosperous population and its thriving consumer electronics industry appears to the outside world to be an ideal environment for eBook adoption. In fact, despite cross industry initiatives that date back to 2003, widespread digitization of books is limited to Japanese comics (manga). This article will explain the origins of the Japanese eBook market, its current state and the looming entry of Amazon, Apple and Google. Finally, this article will explore the two very different paths that the Japanese publishing industry may take over the next 5 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recent trend in the marketing practices is to create engaging and long-lasting shopping experiences for the customers. To understand the Customer Experiences in the services context, this study is conducted with the customers, who visited the store. This study aims to understand the Customer Experience in branded chain stores with reference to Sony World outlets in Chennai, and an approach to develop a conceptual framework for Customer Experience Management and an instrument to measure the same. PLS Method is used to test a model on customer experience. A conceptual framework for Customer Experience Management was developed and an instrument to measure Customer Experience management (CEM) is evolved in the context of customer's electronic store experience. The study provides an insight for Customer Experience. The findings will help Organized Retail Business managers to design a framework that will enhance the shopping experience and satisfaction from the store visits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to add to the collective body of knowledge on student behavior and attitudes relative to the adoption of digital textbooks. The article summarizes an ongoing research project that examines past, current and evolving behavior in the classroom related to digital textbooks and school. It includes students, faculty and administrative attitudes behaviors and perceptions. This research was undertaken at the Sawyer Business School of Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. Student attitudes and behavior toward their use of digital textbooks (eTextbooks) in higher education was examined in an ongoing longitudinal study over two years at Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University. Students in the class were divided into six teams. Five of the teams were assigned an eTextbook device and the sixth team was given a paper textbook for use through the semester. The digital technologies examined were: Amazon Kindle, Sony eReader Touch, Apple iPad, enTourage eDGe, and CourseSmart. Student attitudes and behaviors were examined pre and post class by survey each semester, and during the semesters through quizzes, journals and classroom discussion. Differential learning was measured between the six teams. Student attitudes and behaviors are becoming more receptive to and accepting of using digital textbooks each year. There was no significant difference in learning between the eTextbook devices teams or between them and the paper textbook team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines Samsung Electronics' catch-up with Sony in terms of technological capabilities and investigates the various aspects of the change in the two firms' technological characteristics in the course of the catch-up. Using the US patents of the two firms as a basis, this paper finds that in terms of the quantity of patents, Samsung Electronics' catch-up with Sony happened around the mid-1990s, and in terms of the quality of patents, Samsung Electronics' catch-up occurred earlier, at the beginning of the 1990s. In addition, Samsung Electronics has come to be more independent from Sony, proving that Samsung Electronics has gone beyond simply imitating and applying Sony's technology. This paper also analyzes the other aspects of catch-up, namely the generality and the originality of the knowledge base, technology cycle and appropriability. Samsung Electronics caught up with Sony in terms of sales, corporate value and brand value only after the 2000s. Our study shows that technological catch-up precedes the catch-up in other dimensions. This implies that technological catch-up sets the stage for value- and brand-value-based catch-up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Writing teachers have always had to contend with plagiarism. However, the technology of the Internet and the thorny issues of copyright law complicate how we teach legal and ethical use of others’ materials in the networked classroom. Our pedagogy and curriculum choices and our students’ writing practices are shaped by a legal infrastructure that includes the fair use doctrine. Our understanding and knowledge of the fair use doctrine should become second nature to us. Critical awareness of fair use, the four-factor test, and how to conduct appropriate analyses when using others’ materials must become part of the everyday digital writing/new media classroom curriculum. To this end, the author summarizes the salient points of law and practice of fair use and demonstrates, in small ways, how the fair use doctrine can inform the teaching of writing in digital contexts. As teachers, researchers, and experts of writing, the discourse of fair use must be considered in addition to the discourse of plagiarism. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

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In October 2005, Sysinternals' Mark Russinovich discovered a rootkit on his computer, which he later determined stemmed from a Sony-BMG compact disc. In this article, the authors examine the copy-protection software found on those discs and the implications for digital rights management. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This essay explores the controversy over peer-to-peer (p2p) software, examining the legal and ethical dimensions of allowing software companies to develop p2p technologies. It argues that, under the Supreme Court's ruling in the Sony betamax case, technology developers must be accorded the freedom to innovate and develop technologies that are capable of substantial noninfringing uses. This doctrine, known as the Sony doctrine, provides an important safe harbor for technological development, including p2p. The safe harbor, however, does not immunize conduct beyond the design, sale, or supply of the product. For other conduct that falls outside the Sony safe harbor, the traditional standards of secondary liability apply. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SEC) has made headlines in the mass media for its outstanding performance. Reputable international newspapers and magazines have said that it was a shock 10 see SEC transform from 'low-cost and often unreliable' into 'high-quality and sophisticated'. SEC is often compared with Sony Corporation and some say that it has already caught up with the Japan-based giant. The purpose of this paper is to give answers to two questions: Is the media talking about the whole picture of competitiveness: is SEC really as competitive as Sony? Here we try to clarify the issue of competitiveness using the generalized double diamond model (Moon, Rugman, and Verbeke 1995, 1998), which was extended from Porter's 1990) diamond model. Also, we will suggest the main factors that determine the competitiveness of multinational firms in the global market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Super-audio compact disc (SACD), conceived and developed by Philips and Sony, is viewed as the successor of the standard CD. In March 1999 the standard was set, and Scarlet Book version 1.0 was released. Since then, the format changed from an audiophile release format to a mass-consumer format. Not only does SACD provide an enhanced listening performance to the end-user, it also provides strong copy protection for the music industry. These aspects, in combination with a basic introduction in signal processing for super audio, are discussed The article is concluded with an overview of some of the latest developments in high-quality DSD generation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Gary McGraw interviews Per-Olof Persson, currently head of global software security operations at Sony Mobile. Persson discusses the importance of working in different positions within the same company—from directing the Sony Board to running in front of Android phones. Hear the full podcast at www.computer.org/silverbullet. Show links, notes, and an online discussion can be found at www.cigital.com/silverbullet. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sony's much-debated choice to use rootkit-like technology to protect intellectual property highlights the increasingly blurry line between who can, should, or does control interactions among computational devices, algorithms embodied in software, and data upon which they act. With respect to policy and defense, two key questions emerge: When systems or computational elements are combined, whose policy and expectation dominates? What sorts of defenses are appropriate, and in which situations? The challenge to educators is to provide the experiences, and seek the understanding, that let others make better choices when such conflicts arise in the future [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Despite an eager market, the lack of high-performing virtual-reality products at consumer-level prices has relegated entertainment VR applications to something you'd find in an amusement park or still languishing as a prototype. However, the announcement of several new high-performance VR devices aimed at the consumer market suggests that we might soon have more immersive gaming options. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]