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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. No by Tuxinatorium · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not the music industry equivalent of the GPL, because it's not "viral" as the GPL is. e.g., in CC, derivative works aren't automatically forced into a CC license regardless of the wishes of the author.

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