The Berklee College of Music has created the Berklee Shares program which allows for the download of online lessons on various musical topics.
The cool thing about this is that they are encouraging the sharing of these lessons on various p2p networks. Since the lessons are licensed under the Creative Commons, the school is allowing the sharing of these as long as you don't alter them or try to sell them.
Posted by Josh at November 15, 2003 10:42 PM | TrackBack
With Berklee Shares, "We can enter the file-sharing debate in a very pro-active and positive way. We're demonstrating a legitimate use of the digital networks to distribute authorized content," Kusek said.Kusek said the college does not condone stealing copyright works.
"We want to encourage a debate as to how we can best address file sharing as a music industry rather than try to sue it into submission, or pretend it doesn't exist, or let it grow and become even more disruptive than it has been already," he said. "We don't want the recording business to fall apart."