Anthony Williams, co-author of Wikinomics:  How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything – spoke at the annual government-industry Executive Leadership Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia this week and talked, among other things, about the opening up of intellectual property rights, courtesy (of course) of the Next Gen. 

 You may already know that Nine Inch Nails and the Beastie Boys music groups post their tracks online (drum track, bass track, etc.) and invite people to mix them.  How cool is that! They are providing a platform for mixing and sharing music. 

Could this approach to delivering tunes, creativity and music save Classical music, whose aging audiences no longer fill to capacity traditional venues?  My money is on the cool kids at Curtis Institute of Music, The McDuffie Center for Strings, Cleveland Institute of Music and other conservatories, who are up to the task of delivering Classical music to the world in new and engaging ways. 

Bravo.