Berklee College of Music Now Offers Online Music Degree
The famous Berklee College of Music have been offering online music related courses for the past several years, but this is the first time that its offering an online Music Degree.
Berklee college of music (located in Massachusetts) now offers an online degree in music business and music production, and the tuition fees will be around $15k per year.
Here’s a video of Critical Listening class where students listen to the song and make a list of all the musical elements they hear. The song played here is “Babylon Sisters” by Steely Dan.
Berklee’s Open Music Initiative to Help Identify & Compensate Music Creators and Rights Owners
Berklee’s ambitious Open Music Initiative to provide a standardized way to help identify Music Creators and Rights Owners and compensate them.
The music industry has always faced issues with regards to ‘ownership’ (of the creative work) and the way artistes are compensated. For a long time, Experts have been suggesting a global music database, as they feel that the infrastructure of the music industry (especially around creative rights) is not in tune with the ways music is being created and consumed today.
However Berklee College of Music’s Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship (BerkleeICE) seem to have a better idea, and have announced an initiative to fix the problem. And this is definitely not some minor fix (in case you think its another academic exercise)!
The Ambitious Open Music Initiative (OMI)
BerkleeICE announced the ambitious Open Music Initiative (OMI) where BerkleeICE (along with MIT Media Lab) will develop an open source framework for music rights and their associated uses in all media forms.
What does it mean in layman’s terms?
It simply means OMI will provide a standardized way of tagging and identifying music and rights-holders!
OMI Working Group
The OMI working group will include BerkleeICE, MIT Media Lab, researchers from University College London and other academic institutions. Operational and strategic guidance will be provided by IDEO, a global design and innovation company, and Context Labs, a media tech company coordinating the technical platform for the project.
How Will It Help?
Here are some of the benefits:
- The initiative will create a shared digital architecture for the modern music business
- Aims to solve intractable problems and help music and tech interact better
- Various databases can communicate with each other and verify information.
- Better tracking means more money for artists, labels and publishers (and will also benefit consumers).
An Impressive List Of Partners
Almost every major music group and streaming music service has signed on, which means that everybody acknowledges there’s a need for a better solution to the issue.
Partners include companies like Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, BMG, Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, SoundCloud, Netflix, SiriusXM, WBUR (Boston’s NPR news station), CD Baby, Tunecore, Downtown Music Publishing, French PRO SACEM, HFA, Rumblefish, blockchain initiative RightsShare and trade groups Featured Artist Coalition, Music Managers Forum, Future of Music Coalition, as well as, startups in the developing area of music rights licensing.
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