Beyondthecommons
   Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights.
   http://www.beyondthecommons.com/

Boycott CDs
   Movement urging webmasters to protest the RIAA.
   http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~chapinr/

Boycott-Riaa.com
   Organization rebutting arguments of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and writing critiques of the industry lobbyists' attempts to control music sharing and copying. With background information, news, essays, and links.
   http://www.boycott-riaa.com/

Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet
   The RIAA's newest aggressive tactics and legal assault on file swappers is pushing traders to encrypted networks, where file trading will mushroom as well as be untraceable.
   http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040127_2819_tc047.htm

Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates?
   Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating.
   http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040116_9177_tc024.htm

Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War
   Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.
   http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_633.html

Downhill Battle
   Non-profit organization promoting a fairer music industry. News, links, and action alerts.
   http://www.downhillbattle.org/

File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music Sales
   Argues that P2P doesn't threaten music, musicmaking or musicians because sales are at all time highs.
   http://www.webspawner.com/users/jiminyjose123/index.html

Free Music
   Supports the Free Music Philosophy, the idea that all people should have the freedom to copy, distribute, and modify music for personal, noncommercial purposes. FAQ, articles, suggested further reading, links to related sites.
   http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/freemusic.html

Mass Mic
   Fighting to provide freedom of expression in music. Offers a discussion forum, censorship news and contact information.
   http://www.massmic.com/

Music File-Sharing Does Not Hurt CD Sales: Study
   Despite hundreds of lawsuits on file sharers from the RIAA and loud cries that P2P networks are all to blame, research at Harvard Business School and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill concludes that downloads have zero effect on sales.
   http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040406/tc_afp/us_internet_music

Musicians Against Copyrighting Of Samples
   An international network of musicians whose opinions of sampling and the use of sampling technology oppose the copyrighting of samples. Allowing the general public to sample from MACOS material freely, without incurring any legal ramifications.
   http://www.icomm.ca/macos/

News.com - File sharing legal in Canada
   Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled.
   http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html

PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA
   A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures.
   http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112677,00.asp

Piracy is Your Friend
   A manifesto for musicians who want to make money in the new economy. Asserts that piracy is a phony issue that record labels are hyping in order to rip off artists.
   http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html

Policing Pirates in the Networked Age
   A professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas lists reasons why record industry experts failed to prove their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues.
   http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html

RIAA Radar
   A tool that music consumers can use to distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America.
   http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/

Salon - File sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
   An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't, and he doesn't know why.
   http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/

Salon - Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops?
   As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.
   http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/17/brownback_bill/index_np.html

The Droplift Project
   Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and subversing audio collage. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads.
   http://www.droplift.org

The Globe and Mail - Copy This: Up With Downloading
   Canadian article by an industry songwriter who examines both sides of the argument and sees file-trading as a consumer revolt and an explicit demand for change.
   http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040318/COCOPY18/Comment/Idx

The Problem With Music
   Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.
   http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

We Hate the RIAA
   Updates and forum on RIAA actions.
   http://riaa.freecyberzone.com/

Why Free Music?
   A collection of essays on the issues surrounding intellectual property and copyright as they relate to music.
   http://www.free-music.com/freemus.htm