Rights
On November 14, 2003, Fugazi gave permission to Matt Bailey for shows to be hosted at the Archive:
Subject: Re: Live Music Archive
Hey Matt -
Thanks for writing in.
Here's our policy : As long as no money is being exchanged, we support all
sharing of any format of Fugazi live recordings be they tapes, CDRs, or
audio files on the web. We do not support THE SALE of any of these formats,
even for nominal amounts so our policy is basically - its free or its not
cool with us.
All the best - Guy/Fugazi
More Policy Notes
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/00-11/01.shtml
Fugazi Too Late to Dig Napster
We should have run this two days ago when it still mattered
Camilo Arturo Leslie reports:
Coverage of the ongoing Napster controversy has focused almost exclusively on the legal wrangling between that company and the handful of giant record conglomerates that want it abolished. If, as they contend, the file-sharing program siphons away potential music buyers, it would follow that a comparably small, but very successful label like Dischord might take a proportionately much bigger hit to the wallet than the majors. Fugazi's Guy Picciotto was kind enough to answer some e-mailed queries regarding this subject. The following is his response:
"Regarding Napster - I can't really say that I am completely up on the whole thing regarding the RIAA lawsuit but our position on music file sharing is pretty basic. We are totally cool with it. As long as no one is charging someone else for downloads of our stuff we are totally fine with people sharing files of our songs, even unreleased stuff and live tapes.
"We have always had an open camera, video and taping policy at our shows and as long as people are strictly sharing and trading, we are into it. We do have problems with people 'marketing' our stuff surreptiously and charging for it and we discourage that in the limited way we can, but to us Napster is like home taping - the idea that it kills music only makes sense if your bottom line is per-piece profit. If you are into having your music exposed to more people, (something mainstream radio would never do for us), Napster actually performs a service. Hope that makes sense. Thanks for the interest."
# Pitchfork Review: Fugazi: Instrument Soundtrack
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/f/fugazi/instrument-soundtrack.shtml
# Fugazi: http://www.southern.com/southern/band/FUGAZ/
another site:
http://www.dischord.com/bands/fugazi.shtml
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Update: Fugazi has a live release series: http://www.fugaziliveseries.com/
