April 29th, 1999
Official Grateful Dead Statement on MP3/GD Sites
The GDP Board issued the following statement:
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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