The 3rd Open Music Contest organized by the General Students Committee of the University of Marburg points out new ways of copyright usage for the consumers. Similar to Open Source consumers are granted more rights, for example the right to copy, edit and to share music. The Creative Commons license by Lawrence Lessig Professor of Law at Stanford Law School puts this concept on a firm footing. Therefore Lessig is the patron of the Open Music Contest.
"We see Open Music as a logical advancement of Open Source", says Benjamin Hagemann, board member of the LinuxTag e.V., "thus we support the Open Music Contest through our cooperation". The LinuxTag e.V. published an open music CD under a free license and cooperates with further initiatives supporting free content in 2001.
Until the 13th of February musicians can submit their work, as long as it's published under a Creative Commons licens. A jury will pick the bands, who get to play at the concerts in Berlin and Marburg Germany in April and which songs get published on the sampler.