Choruss Keynote at Digital Music Forum East
If you haven't already seen it, read the text of the keynote speech given by Jim Griffin at the Digital Music Forum East last week. Hypebot posted the entire thing. Griffin is the founder of Choruss, an organization currently working with universities in an attempt to monetize campus P2P traffic through blanket licenses ("actuarial
monetization ideas and network fee approaches," explained Griffin). Choruss has not been in the news much. It does not have a website. This speech is your best opportunity to understand the group's progress and goals.
Here's a key blurb:
Let’s be clear at the outset: Choruss is a learning experiment, a test.The universities with whom we are working have two motivations: They want to do the right thing, and they are interested in research in this area. Research into incentives, behavior, network analysis, music marketing and more. We are working with professors and chancellors and provosts, university attorneys, IT departments and their public policy advocates.blog comments powered by DisqusWe are learning about network music fee approaches, and so we will seek to implement different approaches at different campus networks. We do not pretend to know the answers, but we are certain that now is the time for experimentation and learning cannot come fast enough. The colleges have been asking to do this for years, and some, like Penn State, have been doing something similar for years, so it’s time we met them halfway.
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