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The act of analyzing a database or data warehouse and searching for new facts based on the data. For example a supermarket may mine its customer data and find that 87% of people who buy tuna in a can also buy orange juice at the same time. Typically you mine data for meaningful relationships that you can exploit in business.
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Data Mining - iTunes Case StudyOverviewIn recent months, iTunes, Apple's Online Music Store, has become thepacesetter in the digital media marketplace. Its business modelresponds to many of the current legal and technological challenges inonline media distribution. The Digital Media Project's Green Paper,iTunes: How Copyright, Contract, and Technology Shape the Business ofDigital Media, provides an in-depth look at this service from theperspective of comparative law. Members of the Digital Media Teamexamined different legal and regulatory regimes from a range ofcountries to deterimine how iTunes and services like it are likely tofare under different sets of norms.By focusing on the specific iTunes example, the Case Study offers aconcrete view of the way law, technology, and business model interactin the post-Napster world. The Case Study has focused on fourimportant regulatory issues:* Interaction between Copyright and Contract Law* Digital Rights Management* Digital First Sale Doctrine* Fair Use Doctrinehttp://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/itunes
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