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🎵 Grateful Dead — Streaming Rights and Source Information

This page documents the source and licensing context for Grateful Dead live concert recordings surfaced by this app.

Overview

This app provides streaming access to live concert recordings by the Grateful Dead that are publicly hosted by the Internet Archive (Archive.org).

The app does not host or redistribute recordings; it surfaces publicly available recordings hosted on Archive.org and plays them in a noncommercial context.

Primary Sources & Policy Pages

🔑 Historical Grateful Dead Policy (Archived Excerpt)

Below is the official policy statement from Grateful Dead Productions, as captured by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine (2005).
This statement remains the basis for the noncommercial sharing permissions referenced on Archive.org:

“The Grateful Dead and our managing organizations have long encouraged the purely non-commercial exchange of music taped at our concerts.
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.”

— Grateful Dead Productions (archived from Dead.net, November 30, 2005)
Archived source

Key Points for App Review

  • The Internet Archive Rights page includes the Grateful Dead’s policy on noncommercial streaming.
  • The Grateful Dead collection help page clarifies that some shows are stream-only per the band’s wishes.
  • This app functions as a noncommercial client that references Archive-hosted files; it does not host, redistribute, or monetize recordings.
  • All audio content remains hosted by the Internet Archive, under the terms defined by the Archive and the Grateful Dead organization.
  • This page is provided to demonstrate compliance for App Store review and to document that the content accessed is publicly available and properly licensed for noncommercial streaming.

Contact / Questions

If Apple needs additional documentation or a signed statement, please contact:
support@thedeadly.app

Last validated: 2025-10-05