Music Research On The Web
- A Fair(y) Use Tale (Added 26 May 07)
- 9 minute, 21 MB video in Streaming or Downloadable MP4 formats; Humorous look at Principles of Copyright & Fair Use, legally (under present fair use laws) illustrated by using small clips from 27 different Disney films; produced by Eric Faden in 2007; hosted by Stanford University, Center For Internet & Society; Youtube
- cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film-program/film/a-fair-y-use-tale
- 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
- www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
- ASCAP
- Assoc of songwriters, composers and publishers; title search
- www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm?mode=search
- Berne Convention
- International treaty "for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works"
- www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/index.html
- BMI
- performing rights assoc
- www.bmi.com/search/
- Canadian Intellectual Property Office
- strategis.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/cp/cp_main-e.html
- CMRRA
- Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd
- www.cmrra.ca/default.htm
- Copyright & Fair Use
- fairuse.stanford.edu
- Copyrights and Royalties Explained (UK)
- www.vocalist.org.uk/copyright_royalties.html
- Copyright Term & Public Domain in USA (Added 12 Oct 10)
- pdf
- copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
- Copyright Website
- www.benedict.com/Info/Info.aspx
- Creative Commons
- "flexible copyright licenses for creative works"
- creativecommons.org
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act Of 1998
- for composers/owners of soundrecordings whose works are being digitally reproduced/distributed without their permission
- www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
- Happy Birthday To You Copyright Story
- www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp
- Harry Fox Agency
- song file for searching copyrights
- www.harryfox.com/index.jsp
- How To Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work
- www.copyright.gov/circs/circ22.pdf
- Intellectual Property Music Law Questions
- law.freeadvice.com/intellectual_property/music_law
- Radio & Internet Newsletter
- www.kurthanson.com
- ISMN International
- The International Standard Music Number for Printed Music; "A System for Publishing, Distribution and Library Practices"
- www.ismn-international.org
- Musicians' Intellectual Law & Resources Links (Modified 14 Apr 08)
- www.aracnet.com/~schornj/index.shtml
- PD Info
- www.pdinfo.com
- Releasing Your Own Record: A Legal Checklist
- www.musicbizacademy.com/articles/legalchecklist.htm
- Recording Industry Association of America
- www.riaa.com
- Save Internet Radio (Added 29 Mar 07)
- Help keep MandoZine Radio & other small internet broadcasters
- www.mandotunes.com/CRB.php
- SESAC Search
- writers & publishers performing rights organization
- sesac.com/Repertory/Terms.aspx
- SOCAN
- A Canadian music copyright collective for creators & publishers
- www.socan.ca
- SongFile (Public Search)
- Harry Fox Agency
- www.harryfox.com/public/songfile.jsp
- "Sonny Bono" Copyright Term Extension Act 1998
- increases the term of copyright for works created today to the life of the author plus seventy years
- www.copyright.gov/legislation/s505.pdf
- Music Copyright Law in US (Added 30 Dec 11)
- www.rbs2.com/copyrm.pdf
- US Library of Congress Copyright Office (Modified 30 Dec 11)
- Fair Use
- www.copyright.gov
- American Musicological Society (Modified 14 Apr 08)
- www.ams-net.org
- Bluegrass Messengers (Modified 30 Dec 11)
- Bluegrass and Oldtime Lyrics, with notes and discography
- www.bluegrassmessengers.com/bluegrass-lyrics.aspx
- CoMandoList Search Archives
- coMANDO - Mandolin Playing and Enjoyment - search by date, keyword, subject, author
- listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S1=comando
- Digital Library of Appalachia
- mp3 recorded by appalachian fiddlers; can create a list of favourites
- www.aca-dla.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2FBerea43
- Digital Tradition
- Database of song lyrics; some have notation gifs
- sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad
- Fiddler's Companion - Old Site & New Site (Modified 31 Jul 12)
- Reference Database of historial and musical information about 100's of fiddle tunes; Converting to WIKI format in 2012
- www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/FCfiles.html & www.tunearch.org/wiki/TTA
- Fiddle Players' Discussion List - Search Archives
- listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?S1=FIDDLE-L
- Folk Tune Finder (Added 8 Jul 08)
- Input notes, from keyboard or abc, or Title
- www.folktunefinder.com
- Hetzler Internet Fakebook
- categorized by tune type; celtic as well as old-time tunes in midi
- hetzler.homestead.com/Celtic_1.html
- Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
- www.irishtune.info
- JC's ABC tune finder
- combs the net to find abc files. Use ABC Converter for notation & MIDI
- jc.tzo.net/~jc/music/abc/findtune.html
- Mandolin Cafe Message Board (Modified 30 Sep 08)
- search archives
- www.mandolincafe.com/forum/index.php
- MandoZine TablEdit Music Archives
- over 2500 total tunes in TablEdit tef format; TablEdit music files need free TefViewer to see/hear/play along with, in notation and/or tablature with MIDI, at your own speed, often with guitar & bass backup
- www.mandozine.com/music/tabledit_search.php
- Mudcats Lyrics Discussion Forum
- www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm
- Open Music Encyclopedia
- search for tunes by playing melody on computer keyboard, whistle or sing to computer, or use Parson's code (up, repeat, down)
- www.musipedia.org/about.0.html
- Chris Walshaw's web-wide abc index (Modified 31 Dec 11)
- abcnotation.com/search
- The Session Tunes (Modified 12 Oct 08)
- abc and music notation with discussions; Most Popular in Tunebooks
- www.thesession.org/tunes
- The Traditional Music Database
- Search by tune name, ABCs, artists
- tunedb.woodenflute.com/tunedb/
- Traditional Ballad Index (Modified 9 Jul 07)
- A collaborative reference effort; "An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World"; searchable; large zipped text & html also available for download; Intro & Explanation
- www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladSearch.html
- Traditional Tune Archive - New Site & Old Site (Added 31 Jul 12)
- WIKI-based Reference Database of historial and musical information about 100's of fiddle tunes; Converting from Fiddlers Companion to WIKI in 2012
- www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/FCfiles.html & www.tunearch.org/wiki/TTA
- Web Resources for Research in Music
- from the music department of the University College Cork
- www.music.ucc.ie/wrrm
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