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Berklee Encourages Peer to Peer Music Trading

Posted by timothy on from the owner's-rights dept.

Yo Maing writes "According to this article at Wired magazine, students at the Berklee College of Music are being encouraged to share their audio and video works over p2p networks. The program is called Berklee Shares, and offers free music lessons for download. The downloads are licensed under the Creative Commons license, which has varying restrictions based their license builder page. Is this the music industry equivalent of the GPL?"

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  1. Hot damn! by Kethinov · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd transfer there if I was going into music as a profession! But alas, I have no musical skills so I suppose I'm damned to the colleges where P2P is piracy *sniff* :(

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    You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
  2. oh, that berklee by rritterson · · Score: 2, Funny

    At first I was like- No we aren't- the college of music doesn't support that at all... then- ohhh- berklee not berkeley

    Good to hear my homophonic sister school is doing something progressive

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