Do Streaming Services Now Compete with Labels? | Berklee’s Open Music Initiative

With streaming services increasingly investing in their own original content, digital strategist Bas Grasmayer examines the impact of this on the music biz.

In early June Berklee announced the beginning of the Open Music Initiative (OMI), a collaboration between the Berklee Institute of Creative Entrepreneurship, the M.I.T. Media Lab, and globally renowned design firm IDEO. In addition to the three founding organizations more than sixty partners have signed on, including the three major labels, Google with YouTube, the…

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