As of noon PDT 30 April 1999 this id the new header statement in the MP3
folder in Discussion Hotline, Page 20 in Dead Net Central:

<H2>STATEMENT TO MP3 SITE OPERATORS</H2>
<P>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:
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<OL>
<LI>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.
<LI>All participants in such digital exchange acknowledge and respect the
copyrights of the
performers, writers and publishers of the music.
<LI>This notice should be clearly posted on all sites engaged in this
activity.
<LI>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.
</OL>
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<B>Seems like something we can all live with.</B>
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-- 
<address>
Byron Nygreen
bnygreen@telepath.com
</address>