Waiting for Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown to open the Rethink Music conference in Boston this week, I overheard some small talk a few rows behind me. "They were afraid there'd be too many lawyers," someone said, "so they told me to dress down." The Rethink Music conference enjoyed some heavy aegis: Berklee, the music trade fair organization MIDEM, the Harvard Business School, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The nominal ambition was similarly impressive: "To talk about solutions to moving the music industry forward," according to conference Executive Director Allen Bargfrede; to "foster creativity and a thriving music industry," according to the conference website...[continued]
