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Colleges Secretly Test Music-Industry Project

Posted by samzenpus on from the area-51-flavors-and-then-some dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The music industry is still pushing Choruss, a controversial blanket-licensing scheme, but it is far less innovative than first described. Six colleges are setting it up now, but they refuse to have their names released because the issue is a political landmine — and who wants to be associated with the recording industry?"

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  1. Thank you, RIAA... by reverendbeer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...Thank you for allowing ever single music-oriented organization in the world to believe, accurately or not, that they have rights, imagined or not, upon every and anything that they produce and that compensation, in some manner, should be expected and demanded.

  2. infinite, free music for a one time fee? by Dr.+Hellno · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I loathe the recording industry as much as anyone, but it's really, really hard to hate them for this one. Of course they'd be shooting themselves in the foot, no student would ever pay for music again. And it's probably not great for the artists. But seeing as the whole industry is going down the tubes anyway, I fully support this initiative to provide me with infinite music in the meantime.