RETIRED - Copyright: Music

National Association of Music Education (NafME)--Copyright Center

Music Publishers Association of the United States

Music Library Association copyright page

Harry fox Agency (HFA)

ASCAP

Broadcast Music, INC (BMI)

SESAC

Ethics of Music Downloading and Sharing

Educate yourself about the ethics of music downloading and sharing:

• Money for Nothing and Hits for Free: The Ethics of Downloading Music from Peer-to-Peer Web Sites
• Recording Industry of America
• How Digital Piracy Harms Everyone
• Envisional Internet Usage Study 2011--Technical report on the infringing use of the internet
• ProMusic.org--All you need to know about getting  music on the internet

Legal Issues

Educate yourself about the legal consequences of music downloading and sharing:

• ProMusic--FAQs
• WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook: Policy, Law and Use
• University of Northern Colorado has policies regarding prohibited uses of the University’s network:~ http://www.unco.edu/it/policies/computingprocedures.html

Do the Right Thing: Legal Alternatives

When is it okay to copy?

• Copying music--The Recording Industry Association of America

The best course of action is to obtain your music from legal sites. Here are a couple of free and legal sites: 
~ http://music.download.com/
~ http://www.betterpropaganda.com/

Here’s a list of legal online music sources:

• Cornell's Legal Sources for Online Music and Videos
• Educause's Legal Sources of Online Content

Some advocacy groups are not happy with the current laws regarding peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and are working to change them. One example is the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
~ http://w2.eff.org/IP/P2P/.

Music Copyright for Educational Purposes

If you are interested in guidelines regarding copyright law and music education, see the National Association for Music Education Copyright page Web site.