Why Free Music?

A collection of essays on the issues surrounding intellectual property and copyright as they relate to music.
http://www.free-music.com/freemus.htm

Musicians Against Copyrighting Of Samples

An international network of musicians whose opinions of sampling and the use of sampling technology oppose the copyrighting of samples. Allowing the general public to sample from MACOS material freely, without incurring any legal ramifications.
http://www.icomm.ca/macos/

Mass Mic

Fighting to provide freedom of expression in music. Offers a discussion forum, censorship news and contact information.
http://www.massmic.com/

The Problem With Music

Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

Piracy is Your Friend

A manifesto for musicians who want to make money in the new economy. Asserts that piracy is a phony issue that record labels are hyping in order to rip off artists.
http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html

The Droplift Project

Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and subversing audio collage. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads.
http://www.droplift.org

Free Music

Supports the Free Music Philosophy, the idea that all people should have the freedom to copy, distribute, and modify music for personal, noncommercial purposes. FAQ, articles, suggested further reading, links to related sites.
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/freemusic.html

Boycott-Riaa.com

Organization rebutting arguments of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and writing critiques of the industry lobbyists' attempts to control music sharing and copying. With background information, news, essays, and links.
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/

RIAA Radar

A tool that music consumers can use to distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America.
http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/

We Hate the RIAA

Updates and forum on RIAA actions.
http://riaa.freecyberzone.com/

Policing Pirates in the Networked Age

A professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas lists reasons why record industry experts failed to prove their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html

Salon - File sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty

An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't, and he doesn't know why.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/

Salon - Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops?

As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/17/brownback_bill/index_np.html

Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet

The RIAA's newest aggressive tactics and legal assault on file swappers is pushing traders to encrypted networks, where file trading will mushroom as well as be untraceable.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040127_2819_tc047.htm

Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates?

Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040116_9177_tc024.htm

Boycott CDs

Movement urging webmasters to protest the RIAA.
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~chapinr/

Beyondthecommons

Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights.
http://www.beyondthecommons.com/

The Globe and Mail - Copy This: Up With Downloading

Canadian article by an industry songwriter who examines both sides of the argument and sees file-trading as a consumer revolt and an explicit demand for change.
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040318/COCOPY18/Comment/Idx

Music File-Sharing Does Not Hurt CD Sales: Study

Despite hundreds of lawsuits on file sharers from the RIAA and loud cries that P2P networks are all to blame, research at Harvard Business School and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill concludes that downloads have zero effect on sales.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040406/tc_afp/us_internet_music

News.com - File sharing legal in Canada

Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled.
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html

PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA

A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112677,00.asp

Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War

Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.
http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_633.html

File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music Sales

Argues that P2P doesn't threaten music, musicmaking or musicians because sales are at all time highs.
http://www.webspawner.com/users/jiminyjose123/index.html

Downhill Battle

Non-profit organization promoting a fairer music industry. News, links, and action alerts.
http://www.downhillbattle.org/

Supporters of the Real Underground

Underground music supporting community web site, featuring news, artists and music.
http://www.supportUG2.com

Grey Tuesday - Free the Grey Album

Site organizing and then reporting on the results of the 24 February, 2004 protest against actions censoring the Grey Album by DJ Danger Mouse.
http://www.greytuesday.org/

NPR : DJ's 'Grey Album' Spurs Dispute

DJ Dangermouse (Brian Burton) took vocals from rapper Jay-Z's "The Black Album," mixed them with instrumentals from The Beatles (known to all as The White Album), and came up with "The Grey Album." It wasn't made for commercial release, but the mixes go
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1722774