Copyright - Music For Music's Sake - Grateful Dead and Woody Guthrie

Sometimes music is treated as art, not as a vehicle for hoarding money and restricting consumers.

This is exemplified by the copyright policies of certain performers.  Here are my favorite policies from some influential acts:

Grateful Dead's Mp3 Policy:

"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."

Woody Guthrie's Standard Copyright Notice:

"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do."