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Created in 2004 this collection consists of both audience and soundboard recordings. It is not uncommon to find multiple versions of the same show. For more information please see the FAQ. The Grateful Dead collection is not currently open to public uploads.

Discussion Resources

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In contrast, the Live Music Archive forum is a more general venue for discussion about thousands of other LMA bands, and for more general technical questions about the LMA collection.
See the FAQ, and the collection's policy notes below for more information. Limited Flag: LimSpecial / LimProject / LimShows / LimSBDs / LimRange. At this time, the Grateful Dead collection is not open to public uploads. The Grateful Dead Internet Archive Project (GDIAP) will continue its direct management of this collection for the time being.

Informative Links:
Grateful Dead Listening Guide
Grateful Dead Guide
Deadlists
Grateful Dead Sources in Circulation at db.etree.org

Limited Flag: LimSpecial / LimProject / LimShows / LimSBDs / LimRange

11/2005 brought a major change to GD material here. See:
http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#215

Additional note on Limitations for this site: Specific items (show dates and/or recording versions) may become unavailable for downloading or streaming here by rights-holder request. Here are some examples of currently nonpublic items (list is not comprehensive): 02/27/1969, 02/28/1969, 03/01/1969, 03/02/1969, 10/26/1971, 09/21/1972, 11/02/1977, 11/05/1977, 09/03/1980, 09/04/1980, 03/26/1988, 03/27/1988, 03/28/1988, 07/04/1989

Trading Policy Notes
From http://www.dead.net/hotline_info/NEW_DOCUMENTS/mp3.html from 2005

STATEMENT TO MP3 SITE OPERATORS
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.