This looks pretty good: ----- World-Renowned Music College Encourages People to Share Music Lessons via File Sharing Networks Boston, MA - November 10, 2003 - Berklee College of Music, the world's largest independent music college and the premier institution for the study of contemporary music announce the launch of Berklee Shares. This groundbreaking new program provides free music lessons and encourages musicians to share and distribute these music lessons online. The Berklee Shares lessons are available at no charge and are made up of a growing catalog of MP3s, QuickTime movies and PDF files derived from curriculum developed at the college by its world-renowned faculty. http://www.berkleeshares.com/ Tom
Tom Warner wrote Nowhere near as good as the report I read today that the merkin performing rights dudes are charging the Girl Guides for singing copyrighted songs round the camp fire. After a bit of a to and fro amongst their lawyers the merkin GG pays a dollar a year as a nominal royalty. The same article made reference to a recommendation from our very own Dept of Education that kiddies put the copyright mark on their schoolwork so that they can sue people for nicking it later. Although they did point out that perhaps this might be easier if the kiddies could actually write in the first place.
