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:

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.

All participants in such digital exchange acknowledge
and respect the copyrights of the performers, writers
and publishers of the music.

This notice should be clearly posted on all sites
engaged in this activity.

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.