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• Music

   
  Main article: Classical music written in collaboration
   

  Musical collaboration occurs when musicians in different places or groups work on the same album or song. Collaboration between musicians, especially with regards to jazz, is often heralded as the epitome of complex collaborative practice. Special websites as well as software have been created to facilitate musical collaboration over the Internet resulting in the emergence of Online Bands.

   

  Several awards exist specifically for collaboration in music:

   
   
  • Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals—awarded since 1988
   
  • Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals—awarded since 1995
   
  • Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration—awarded since 2002

• Entertainment

   

  Collaboration in entertainment is a relatively new phenomenon brought on with the advent of social media, reality TV, and video sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo. Collaboration occurs when writers, directors, actors, producers and other individuals or groups work on the same television show, short film, or feature length film. A revolutionary system has been developed by Will Wright for the production of the TV series title Bar Karma on CurrentTV. Special web-based software, titled Storymaker, has been written to facilitate plot collaboration over the Internet. Organizations such as Orange County Screenwriters Association bring together professional and amateur writers and filmmakers in a collaborative manner for entertainment development.

• Publishing

   

  Collaboration in publishing can be as simple as dual-authorship or as complex as commons-based peer production. Technological examples include Usenet, e-mail lists, blogs and Wikis while 'brick and mortar' examples include monographs (books) and periodicals such as newspapers, journals and magazines.

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• EDITORIAL: Enabling a New Age of Collaboration.

  Authors:

  Updegrove, Andrew

  Source:

  Standards Today; Jan2010, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p5-7, 3p

  Document Type:

  Editorial

• “100 million registered users is a symbol, putting us in a new category with an elite handful of companies that have ever reached that audience
• “It puts a quantitative spin on that feeling that we’re solving really important problems for a big chunk of the world,” not just Silicon Valley, Houston tells me. “Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches — I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments’ results. They were raving about how it’s driving their research.”

• The security issue

   

  The discussion was dominated, however, by whether or not Dropbox offers the requisite level of data protection for accountants operating in the UK and registered with the Information Commissioner as data controllers.

   

  Hansa put the case against Dropbox: “Be aware it is not secure and the servers are US based (thus minimal privacy). Their staff can access your files and thus give them to others... It’s great for granny's photos, not for business and very probably breaks data protection rules.”

   

  The final point was rebutted by several contributors. Dropbox is hosted on Amazon’s US-based S3 web servers, which are covered by a safe harbour agreement effectively granting equal status to European Union-based servers under the Data Protection Act. Hansa’s concern went further, and related to provisions within the US Patriot Act that gave government forces the power to demand access to files held on US-based servers; the Switzerland-based Wuala service was suggested as an alternative, along with a few other rivals.

• Skype, launched in Europe in 2003 but acquired three years ago by eBay, offers free voice and video calling between Internet-connected computers running the Skype software and equipped with microphone and speakers or a plug-in telephone headset.