Tune In March 3: Choruss--A New Business Model for Digital Music

Created by Peggy Kurkowski (EDUCAUSE) on February 24, 2009

Per-copy charges for music and other intellectual property made sense when copies were physical objects, but that business model is ill-suited to the digital world. The mismatch has led to thousands of lawsuits against students and other consumers, tens of thousands of infringement notices sent to campuses and commercial ISPs, and millions of wasted person-hours dealing with these issues. Recently an alternate approach has been gaining momentum: voluntary collective licensing. In this model, a flat monthly fee is collected covering all music access by a group of participants, generally the subscribers of a particular network. The money is then distributed to copyright holders based on the relative frequency of access of each individual work.

In this free March 3 EDUCAUSE Live! Web Seminar, Choruss: A New Business Model for Digital Music, presenter Jim Griffin, president, Choruss LLC, will describe the advantages of this model and his plans for a series of campus-based pilot projects starting this fall.

Those unable to attend may wish to visit the archives after the event or browse related EDUCAUSE resources on Campus or Subscription Music Services and Licensing.

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		Tune In March 3: Choruss--A New Business Model for Digital Music Created by Peggy Kurkowski (EDUCAUSE) on February 24, 2009 Per-copy charges for music and other intellectual property made sense when copies were physical objects, but that business model is ill-suited to the digital world. The mismatch has led to thousands of lawsuits against students and other consumers, tens of thousands of infringement notices sent to campuses and commercial ISPs, and millions of wasted person-hours dealing with these issues. Recently an alternate approach has been gaining momentum: voluntary collective licensing. In this model, a flat monthly fee is collected covering all music access by a group of participants, generally the subscribers of a particular network. The money is then distributed to copyright holders based on the relative frequency of access of each individual work. In this free March 3 EDUCAUSE Live! Web Seminar, Choruss: A New Business Model for Digital Music, presenter Jim Griffin, president, Choruss LLC, will describe the advantages of this model and his plans for a series of campus-based pilot projects starting this fall. Those unable to attend may wish to visit the archives after the event or browse related EDUCAUSE resources on Campus or Subscription Music Services and Licensing. EDUCAUSE News \| Copyright \| Copyright Infringement \| EDUCAUSE Live! \| ELIVE \| free web seminar \| Intellectual Property \| Legal Downloading \| Licensing \| Licensing Policies Peggy's blog Login or register to post comments 702 reads
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