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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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  2. 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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  3. It depends by Quattro+Vezina · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you go to the License Builder link at the top, you'll see that there are various options you can choose, one option set governing derivative works. There are 3 options in that set:

    1) Derivative works allowed with no restriction
    2) No derivative works allowed
    3) Derivative works allowed as long as they are licensed under the same license (i.e. GPL-style)

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  4. 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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  5. Re:One important thing... by tiled_rainbows · · Score: 2, Informative

    But surely it is copyrighted, it's just that the copyright is owned by the students - the univeristy is just enocuraging the copyright holders to share.

    Wouldn't it be nice if some of these students later become famous mega-popstars, and, after having had such a positive introduction to P2P filesharing by their alma mater, decide to give all their music away free and bring the RIAA et al to thier knees?

    Yeah, I know, but it would be cool.

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  6. Clarification by kefoo · · Score: 2, Informative

    At least so far, berkleeshares.com doesn't distribute student works. It's a repository of small self contained music lessons excerpted from Berklee College of Music's courses, text books, and videos, made available for free.

    They also have an online school where you can take courses taught by their professors.