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This following message was John Barlow's response to queries
about the type of information that may be contained on this
archive with respect to US Copyright laws and GD/GDP/GDM's
copyrights, and Grateful Dead lyrics.  Your mileage may vary.

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From barlow@eff.org Fri Jun 18 03:35:00 1993
Message-Id: <199306181035.AA05058@eff.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 12:34:24 +0100

This is very disturbing to me, but it's only the latest event in a series
episodes which demonstrate to me that Grateful Dead Productions, as an
organization, is very retrograde in the area of intellectual property. They
are at least very differently clued from me.

I'm going to have to have a meeting with the band about this. I've done it
before without much success. But I'll try it again. 

In the meantime, continue to do what you're doing. My songs have been on
the Net since there was one. And I can't see where either Hunter or I have
gone poor as a result. 

Indeed, I would say that much of the success of the Grateful Dead is owed
to our inadvertantly liberal attitude on copyright with regard to the
distribution of concert tapes. 

From capek@axp2.acf.nyu.edu Sun Jan  9 14:21:38 PST 1994
From: capek@axp2.acf.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: E-Music Lawsuit: No Dead Content
Message-ID: <1993Dec17.114909.1@axp2.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 93 16:49:08 GMT
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	No Dead content but of interest nonetheless:

	The National Music Publisher's Association is suing Compuserve for
distributing "Unchained Melody" without permission.  It's estimated
the ballad has been infringed at least 690 times by subscribers who download
the song onto their own computers.  The suit is apparently the first to place
music-copyright issues in a high-tech context.  WSJ, 12/16/93, B1


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