“Young People, Music, and the Internet,” a parent’s handbook to the internet and file-sharing. Download it here.
Legal Music Sites
Where to Get Music Online…
Without Breaking the Law
Visit these sites for legal music on the web.
Don’t download music or video from a website that…
- Advertises, describes, or promotes itself in ways that either state or imply that its offerings include music from the major record labels
- Charges fees to users (limewire, for example)
- Creates a risk of consumer misunderstanding about the legal status of music downloads available through the site – either through statements or omissions in the way it characterizes its service or legal status, or by making important legal disclosures too obscure or hard to find to be useful
- Does not appear, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, to be authorized to distribute major label music in the United States – and as best we can tell does not disclose that fact prominently to potential users
- Failed to provide a satisfactory response to a letter from CDT, mailed to the address associated with the Web site’s domain name registration, providing an opportunity to explain why the Web site should not be placed on this list.
Courtesy of Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) (http://www.cdt.org/copyright/warninglist/)
The No Electronic Theft (NET) Act criminalizes uploading music or video to an Internet site for other people to download, sending it through an e-mail or chat service, or otherwise reproducing or distributing copies without authorization from the copyright owner.
