Patent ID: 8884146

Claim:
A music performance monitoring system providing for the utilization by a music studio of the Internet to permit private monitoring by a studio administrator, a plurality of music teachers and a limited number of selected third parties of music performances of copyrighted works by a plurality of music students without violation of copyright laws, said system comprising: A) a music studio controlled server computer in communication, via the Internet, with the plurality of music students, the music teachers, if any, of each of the plurality of music students, the administrator and the limited number of selected third parties, said server computer comprising: i. software adapted to permit Internet communication among the plurality of music students, their music teachers and a limited number of selected third persons, ii. software adapted to permit input through the Internet regarding the student's music performances from said limited number of selected third persons, B) a plurality of student computers in Internet communication with said server computer, said plurality of student computers; each of said student computers comprising software adapted to permit: i) each of the plurality of students to upload to the server computer, encrypted student performances of musical works for storage in a file associated with the student, ii) each of the plurality of music students to verify registration of a limited number of computers in communication with the Internet that are to have access to the student's file and are under control of selected third parties who have agreed prevent access to members of the general public of the students performances; C) a plurality of third party computers in Internet communication with said server computer, wherein each of said plurality of third party computers comprises: i. software adapted to permit monitoring by the limited number of selected third parties, via the third party computers and the Internet, of student performances of musical works, ii. software to permit transmittal to the student via the third party computers, the Internet and the server computer of responsive information based on said student performances of the musical works, wherein the music performances of copyrighted works thereby made available to the administrator, music teachers and the selected third parties can be controlled in a manner that the performances qualify as private (not public) performances under relevant copyright laws and not an infringement of copyright.