GRATEFUL DEAD PRODUCTIONS, INC.
STATEMENT TO MP3 SITE OPERATORS
The Grateful Dead and our managing organizations have long encouraged the
purely non-commercial exchange of music taped at our concerts and those of
our individual members. That a new medium of distribution has arisen -
digital audio files being traded over the Internet - does not change our
policy in this regard.
Our stipulations regarding digital distribution are merely extensions of
those long-standing principles and they are as follow:
- No commercial gain may be sought by websites offering digital files of
our music, whether through advertising, exploiting databases compiled from
their traffic, or any other means.
- All participants in such digital exchange acknowledge and respect the
copyrights of the performers, writers and publishers of the music.
- This notice should be clearly posted on all sites engaged in this activity.
- We reserve the ability to withdraw our sanction of non-commercial digital
music should circumstances arise that compromise our ability to protect and
steward the integrity of our work.
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