Friday, October 10, 2008
What is the etiquette for content sharing?

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I really like the content of MHAJ and would like to share some interviews with friends I believe would be interested. What are the ground rules (a.k.a. digital etiquette) regarding the sharing of your content?

Regarding the sharing of MHAJ subscription content with friends, we would of course like more people to know about our work and to benefit from it. But, we also need to stay in business, which means we need to keep selling our content and limit the ways in which distribution methods can be abused by those who don't quite appreciate the real damage done by careless redistribution.

So we've come up with a compromise between total restriction and getting Napstered to death. If you want to share material with a friend, you are free to e-mail it to them as long as you agree to four conditions:

1) you forward them a link to our website (www.marshillaudio.org) and to our podcast page (mhadigital.org)

2) you will forward them at least one issue of our monthly e-mail newsletter, Addenda, and also encourage them to subscribe to Addenda (we never share our e-mail list with anyone, so this won't invite spam; they can sign up at https://www.marshillaudio.org/add-sub/default.asp)

3) you gently ask the person to whom you're sending it not to send it to anyone else

4) you not send any one person more than one feature from each issue of the Journal. An exception may be made if you're willing to burn a CD of the Journal; in that case, you may by all means share either one or two disks with someone, as long as you give them a friendly reminder not to rip MP3 files from it.

Lastly, we ask that you share only features from our Journal and not other products in your efforts to introduce others to MHA, as most of our other publications are fairly inexpensive.

We also offer a sample issue of the Journal, and our podcast Audition is another great way of introducing others to MARS HILL AUDIO.

In the end, there's no way we can police this, but we're trying to be good stewards on behalf of our subscribers who are paying in order to continue listening to MHA.

Thanks for your understanding and cooperation!

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